When students are required to engage in research of one kind or another and to produce dissertations - whether as a substantial component of a research degree or as a lesser component in a taught degree - the research proposal is a crucial pedagogic mechanism. But whilst textbooks give guidance...

Despite the growing importance of sustainability and the sustainable development agenda, and despite the growing presence of papers recognising the critical interaction between sustainability and accounting and finance (and, indeed, with all social science), there has been a relatively muted...