Organic salmon farming: risk perceptions, decision heuristics and the absence of environmental accounting

Georgios Georgakopoulos and Ian Thomson

Accounting Forum, 2005, vol. 29, issue 1, 49-75

Abstract: This paper reports on interviews with salmon farmers exploring their decision as to whether to adopt organic production methods. Organic salmon farming has the potential to considerably reduce the social, environmental and economic risks associated with salmon farming. Salmon farming is an industry subjected to intense scrutiny and is highly controversial. The combination of these two factors was expected to reveal the use of environmental accounting in evaluating this potentially difficult, expensive strategic decision, responding to the barrage of public criticism, driven by changing environmental regulations and a potential value shift by key actors.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2004.12.002

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