Purpose: The paper celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Flamholtz’s seminal paper on the Human Resource Accounting approach to taking people into account, providing a critical review of its progress since that time and offering some thoughts on how the project might now...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and history of human resource accounting (HRA) with the objective of promoting both continued academic research and organizational applications. The history of HRA illustrates how academic research can generate improvement in management...

Sooner or later all growing organisations need to change from one form which they have outgrown to one which will meet their present and future needs.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the need for alternative measures of financial performance that can provide a real time indication of what is actually happening in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the framework, the empirical research that...

Purpose – This paper seeks to enhance understanding of the role and effect of corporate culture as a unique strategic asset on the success of business models. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a conceptual exploration of several key constructs and their interrelationship. The...

We have witnessed a significant transformation in the world economy and the organisations that comprise it. The economy of old was manufacturing‐based and relied heavily on tangible assets as determinants of value. In contrast, the present‐day economy is based on knowledge and information,...

There is growing recognition that the core economic resources of the current era are human and intellectual capital, rather than physical assets such as inventories, plant, and equipment. Given the increasing importance of human capital and intellectual property as determinants of economic...

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC), popularized by Kaplan and Norton (1996a, 1996b), has become widely discussed and used (see, for example, Olsson, Karlsson, & Sharma, 2000). The basic notion of the BSC is that organisational performance ought to be evaluated from more than simply a financial...

The Journal of Human Resource Costing and Accounting has achieved critical mass and recognition as a primary place for publishing both scientific and practical applications of Human Resource Accounting (HRA). This paper reviews the state of the art of the development of HRA as it has appeared in...

Introduction What do the following people each have in common: