Contents -- Abstracts & keywords -- Guest editorial -- Social audit and accountability in IT management … -- Contextualising corporate governance -- Strategy, accountability, e-commerce and the consumer -- A critical appraisal of customer …

Adopting the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act has provided impetus to reforming corporate accounting and corporate governance …

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether accountability pressure and ignorance with regard to the … accountability pressure and knowledge of the superior’s preferences in an experimental setting has been investigated, eliciting self …-assessed measures of accountability pressure and manipulating whether the superior’s preferences were known or unknown. Judgements are …

for accountability and stewardship and draw parallels with calls for accountability by the large modern corporations which …

to the development of a new standard, AccountAbility 1000 (AA1000). AA1000 is a quality framework that aims to make clear … how principles of accountability and sustainability are related and complementary. Accountability is founded in democracy … and is also the principle used as the basis of financial and other forms of accounting, auditing and reporting. In …

One of the ways to deal with stakeholder issues, is the use and application of accountability standards. Two recent … accountability standards (AA1000 and SA8000) will be the subject of comparison in this paper. Firstly, the constituent elements of … application. Questions are raised as to whether the instrumental “translation” of notions such as “accountability” and “social …

accountability in the future but whether this potential will be fulfilled is as yet unclear. Further research of a longitudinal …