Accounting for national success and failure: Rethinking the UK case

Ismail Erturk; Julie Froud; Sukhdev Johal; Adam Leaver; Karel Williams

doi:10.1016/j.accfor.2012.01.004

Accounting for national success and failure: Rethinking the UK case

Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams

PMO Management and Organisation Studies

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Abstract

This article presents some basic political arithmetic on UK economic performance, including empirics on the sources of new job creation and regional differences. These empirics support an argument about the need for new measures and concepts of national success and failure. This is so because, as we show in the UK case, the standard post 1940 economic measures of GDP and unemployment give a seriously misleading picture of national success. This is an opportunity for accountants to join with others in devising new measures and concepts. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5-17
Number of pages	12
Journal	Accounting Forum
Volume	36
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2012.01.004
Publication status	Published - Mar 2012

Keywords

Business model
National economy
National settlement
State and para-state

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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New Directions for Local Economic Renewal
Williams, K. (Participant), Erturk, I. (Participant) & Froud, J. (Participant)
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