Section 1: Corporate Governance -- Corporate Governance - Large and Small Corporations, Agents, Principals, Competitors -- A New Management under IT Revolution in Japan -- Section 2: Marketing -- Relative Advantages of E-Business Start-Ups versus Integrated Units of Bricks-and-Mortar Companies -- E-Business Performance: A Latent Class Examination -- Success Factors of Internet-Based Business Models -- From the Old Economy towards the New Economy: Managing the Transformation from the Marketing Point of View -- Mining Product Configurator Data -- Multi-Channel Management and its Impact on Customers' Purchase Behavior -- Section 3: Production and Procurement -- E-Business in Production and Procurement - Some Theoretical Perspectives -- E-Business Strategies in the Mechanical Engineering Industry: An Approach to Explanations of Current Trends in E-Business Diffusion -- Elements of the Production of Services -- Strategic Supply Chain Management: A New Approach to Analyze Product Life Cycles -- An Analysis of Service Output Based on Production Theory -- E-Business and New Forms of Collaboration along the Supply Chain -- Capabilities of the Firm and their Effect on Performance - Production of Information and Communication Technology Services as an Example -- The Transaction Costs of eProcurement -- A Complexity-Based Approach to Production Management in the New Economy -- Advanced Planning Systems - Basics and beyond -- Hierarchical Planning Structures in Supply Chain Management -- Section 4: Human Resource Management and Economic Organization -- Firm Foundations and Human Capital Investments: The O-Ring Approach to Organizational Equilibrium in an Emerging Industry -- Training Strategies and Remuneration Systems of Enterprises of the New and Old Economy - Similarities and Disparities -- Training: A Strategic Enterprise Decision? -- Section 5: Finance -- Some New Properties of Risk Measures -- Discovery in the New Economy - Why Entrepreneurs may not Contract with Investors -- Japan's Venture Capital Market from an Institutional Perspective -- Structural Analysis of Multinational Network Organizations -- Portfolio Return Characteristics of Different Industries -- Valuation of Growth Companies and Growth Options -- Shareholder Value at Risk as an Instrument of Company Valuation -- Valuation of Intangible Assets for Financial Reporting -- Are Stars Worth their Pay? -- Section 6: Accounting -- A Tale of two Bubbles: A Preliminary Look at the US Internet and Biotechnology Bubbles -- Communicating Intangible Resources for the Capital Market -- Business Valuation in the New Economy - Back to the Basics -- New Financial Accounting Standards for the New Economy? - Some Remarks on the Ongoing Debate - -- Controlling the Assets of the New Economy ...and not only the New Economy -- The Valuation of Intangibles in New Economy Firms -- Value Reporting™ New Trends in Corporate Reporting -- List of Contributors.