The broad field we might think of as 'social accounting' has attracted a fair amount of criticism over the years, increasingly it seems, from within its own ranks. It is no surprise that social accounting is a field given to self-evaluation but as (for example) Correa and Laine (2013....

This short paper is a response to the four personal and affectionate, if not quite eulogistic, essays that accompany this volume. These essays from David Owen, Lee Parker, Richard Laughlin and Jane Broadbent offer a range of themes about my work, about CSEAR and about social and environmental...

This paper seeks to use the increasingly influential citation and impact data to explore the contours of the social and environmental accounting (SEA) literature. Our ambitions are fourfold. First, we offer a more nuanced understanding of the journals in which we tend to publish SEA research....

Despite the increasing prominence of China1 in the world economy and its importance socially and environmentally, there is still relatively little English-language research into social and environmental disclosure by Chinese companies. This paper has the explicitly modest intention of reviewing...