Abstract

The markets and other environments over companies become more competitive. Company works on the projects with another company or group of other companies beyond the boundary of single entity or group entity. This new organizational structure is argued as management problem of inter-organizational relationship. This relationship ranges from narrow relationship such as one-on-one to lateral organization such as supply chain management (SCM). In this article, we verify following matters as primary study that enlarges environmental management from only one company to inter-organizational relationship. The points of the argument are the response to environmental management between companies, inter-organizational relationship, inter-organizational SCM, and so on. Besides, we aim to establish conceptual framework about the function of management control as the driver of environmental SCM.