This paper is an attempt to contribute to the debate within the accounting literature as to the likely efficacy of environmental accounting. For purposes of exposition, one can simplify and point to two contrasting positions in the literature. The first suggests that organizations can and do...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a case for research in ethical, social and environmental (or sustainability) accounting and accountability which engages with those organisations claiming to manage and report their sustainability performance. In addition, the paper reviews the...

Corporate, Social, Ethical and Environmental Reporting (SEER) should ideally discharge the accountability of an organisation to its stakeholders. Voluntary reporting has been characterised by a dearth of neutral and objective information such that the advocates of SEER recommend that it be made...

Purpose - To explore the proposition that corporate social responsibility reporting could be viewed as both as an outcome of and part of reputation risk management processes (we phrase this as being the reputation risk management thesis). Design/methodology/approach - The paper outlines how...

This paper responds to Gray's (2002) call for normative research on social and environmental accounting and Parker's (2005) call for active engagement in the process of designing social and environmental accounting systems. More specifically, our investigation focuses on the study of boundary...