 The Accounting Profession, Corporatism and the StateDavid Cooper, Tony Puxty, Tony Lowe and Hugh Willmott Chapter 12 in Critical Perspectives in Management Control, 1989, pp 245-270 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: This paper is concerned with accounting — particularly the occupation, but also its practices and knowledge and its relationship with the state. In so far as we refer to specific occupational groupings of accountants and to specific state institutions, we will be referring to those in the UK. Focusing on the relationship between the UK state and the UK accounting profession may seem rather peculiar in a book concerned with management control, where the latter term is usually applied to the management of organisations. Our analysis is provided, however, to illustrate a social analysis of the relationship between an organisation and its environment, a relationship which is implicit in most conventional studies of management control. In so doing we also wish to explain how acxountancy is intertwined with the state and those corporatist arrangements that developed (sometimes temporarily) in several countries. Keywords: Management Control; Accounting Standard; Productive Capital; Management Control System; Accountancy Profession (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-07658-1_12 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07658-1_12 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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