We are very grateful for the two commentaries, in which Colin Dey and Ian Thomson provide insightful views on our article "'Struggling Against Like-Minded Conformity to Enliven SEAR: A Call for Passion' (Correa, C., and M. Laine. 2013. <italic>Social and Environmental Accountability Journal</italic> 33 (3):...

This paper reflects upon the behavioural and attitudinal issues of scholars within the community of social and environmental accounting research (SEAR) and seeks to stimulate debate by discussing our views on <italic>how</italic> this scientific community operates. The paper calls for passion and appeals to the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed further light on how corporate environmental disclosures are used to respond to institutional pressures stemming from the social context. Design/methodology/approach – Interpretive textual analysis is applied to discuss how the environmental...