Social and Environmental Accountability Journal

2011 - 2025

Current editor(s): Jeffrey Unerman, John Ferguson and Jan Bebbington

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Volume 40, issue 3, 2020

Editors Introduction to the Special Issue. I (we) won’t back down: Rob Gray’s Tribute Album pp. 155-165

Michelle Rodrigue and Helen Tregidga

Rob Gray, Forever Inspiring The Greening of Accountancy pp. 166-170

Andrea B. Coulson

‘We Don’t Need No Thought Control’ – Rob Gray’s Fight Against ‘Indoctrination’ in Accounting Education pp. 171-174

John Ferguson

Sailing the Big Blue Boat: Rob Gray and the Blue Meanies pp. 175-180

Lee D. Parker

Foundations, Evolution and Impact of Rob Gray’s Social Accounting Project: Lessons for Emerging Scholars pp. 181-185

Carol Tilt

‘The World for Which we Account’: Systems Thinking in Rob Gray’s Works pp. 186-190

Carlos Larrinaga

Sustainability Reporting and Value Creation pp. 191-197

Carol Adams

Looking Further, Speaking out Louder: Tribute to Rob Gray pp. 198-204

Matias Laine

From Gray to Green Accounting pp. 205-208

Ian Thomson

Tribute to My Academic Father – Professor Rob Gray pp. 209-213

Tiffany C. H. Leung

Honouring Rob Gray’s CSEAR Legacy pp. 214-218

Robin W. Roberts

Transition, Transformation, Commitment pp. 219-222

Jesse Dillard and Mary Ann Reynolds

Finance and Financial Markets: The Hidden and Implacable Conundrum at the Heart of the Sustainability problematique? pp. 223-228

Rob Gray

Volume 40, issue 2, 2020

Building from Scratch: An Auto-ethnographic Approach for the Development of a Social Reporting Model pp. 101-115

Adrian Zicari and Luis Perera-Aldama

The Verbal Tone in Mandatory Environmental Disclosures: Evidence from Changes in Disclosures Following SEC Guidance pp. 116-139

Shu Feng and Lucia S. Gao

Relevance of SEA to a Global Financial Centre Under One Country Two Systems: Engaging Stakeholders for Sustainability and Climate Change pp. 140-148

Artie W. Ng and Tiffany C. H. Leung

Toward Dialogic Accounting? Public Accountants’ Assistance to Works Councils − A Tool Between Hope and Illusion / When Democratic Principles Are Not Enough: Tensions and Temporalities of Dialogic Stakeholder Engagement / Bringing the Ugly Back: A Dialogic Exploration of Ethics in Leadership Through an Ethno-narrative re-Reading of the Enron Case pp. 149-151

Kylie Kingston

Sustainability Struggles: Conflicting Cultures and Incompatible Logics pp. 152-153

Marek Reuter

Contested Compliance Regimes in Global Production Networks: Insights from the Bangladesh Garment Industry pp. 153-154

Anees Farrukh

Volume 40, issue 1, 2020

Special Issue Editorial: Social and Environmental Account/Ability 2020 and Beyond pp. 1-23

Matias Laine, Matthew Scobie, Matthew Sorola and Helen Tregidga

A Meta-Review of SEAJ: The Past and Projections for 2020 and Beyond pp. 24-41

Olayinka Moses, Fj Mohaimen and Mofoluwaso Emmanuel

Imagining the Future of Social and Environmental Accounting Research for Pacific Small Island Developing States pp. 42-52

Glenn Finau

Exploring the Potential Links between Social and Environmental Accounting and Political Ecology pp. 53-74

Fabián Leonardo Quinche-Martín and Andrés Cabrera-Narváez

A Limb, Not a Lens: Re-thinking Theory’s Role in Social and Environmental Accounting Research pp. 75-92

Dale Tweedie

When CSR backfires: understanding stakeholders’ negative responses to corporate social responsibility pp. 93-94

Kenneth A. Fox

Unpacking the Narrative Decontestation of CSR: Aspiration for Change or Defense of the Status Quo? / Vicious and Virtuous Circles of Aspirational Talk: From Self-Persuasive to Agonistic CSR Rhetoric / Aspirational Talk in Strategy Texts: A Longitudinal Case Study of Strategic Episodes in Corporate Social Responsibility Communication pp. 95-97

Madlen Sobkowiak

A stakeholder theory perspective on business models: value creation for sustainability pp. 98-98

Joanna Kitchen

Critical Dialogical Accountability: From Accounting-based Accountability to Accountability-based Accounting pp. 99-100

David Yates

Volume 39, issue 3, 2019

Editorial pp. 147-151

Matias Laine and Helen Tregidga

To Agree or Disagree? An Analysis of CSR Ratings Firms pp. 152-177

Elaine Conway

Teaching Case. PF Integrated: Developing and Experimenting Competencies in Sustainability Accounting pp. 178-191

Marc Journeault, Michelle Rodrigue and Alexandre Perron

A Pressing Need to Engage with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: The Role of SEA Scholars in Syntheses of Social Science Climate Research pp. 192-199

Robert Charnock and Ian Thomson

The Corporation, Law and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy pp. 200-202

Marisa McVey

How Sustainable is Big Data? pp. 203-204

Chaoyuan She

Accounting, Performance Measurement and Fairness in UK Fresh Produce Supply Networks pp. 204-205

Roger Berquier

Tax Avoidance as a Sustainability Problem pp. 205-207

Maryse Mayer

Varieties of Neo-colonialism: Government Accounting Reforms in Anglophone and Francophone Africa – Benin and Ghana Compared pp. 207-208

Glenn Finau

Volume 39, issue 2, 2019

Crowdsourcing Corporate Transparency through Social Accounting: Conceptualising the ‘Spotlight Account’ pp. 81-99

Stephanie Perkiss, Bonnie Dean and Belinda Gibbons

Directors & Corporate Social Responsibility: Joint Consideration of Director Gender and the Director’s Role pp. 100-123

Charles P. Cullinan, Lois Mahoney and Pamela B. Roush

The Impact of Governmental Pressure on Corporate Corruption Spending: Evidence from China pp. 124-136

Yi Ren and Dennis M. Patten

Being Ecological pp. 137-139

Cornelia Beck

Gender is not “a dummy variable”: a discussion of current gender research in accounting pp. 140-141

Stacy Chavez

An Inconvenient Truth: How Organisations Translate Climate Change into Business as Usual pp. 141-142

Oana Apostol

The Institutional Work of Exploitation: Employers’ Work to Create and Perpetuate Inequality pp. 142-143

Christine Gilbert

It’s Time to Think Centrality of Time in Relation to Sustainable Business pp. 143-145

Radman Selmic

Volume 39, issue 1, 2019

Accounting for Sustainability Governance: The Enabling Role of Social and Environmental Accountability Research pp. 1-22

Leonardo Rinaldi

Temporal Strategic Knowledge-sharing Nets as Instances of Sustainability Governance in Practice pp. 23-43

Leanne Johnstone

Towards Transparency? Analysing the Sustainability Governance Practices of Ethical Certification pp. 44-69

Helen Tregidga, Kate Kearins and Eva Collins

Sustainability accounting and integrated reporting pp. 70-71

John Dumay

Social movement NGOs and the comprehensiveness of conflict mineral disclosures: evidence from global companies pp. 72-73

Mercy Denedo

Acknowledging complexity in food supply chains when assessing their performance and sustainability pp. 73-74

Carla Antonini

Ideology and the micro-foundations of CSR: Why executives believe in the business case for CSR and how this affects their CSR engagements pp. 75-75

Jolien Lievens

The Role of Sustainability Performance and Accounting Assurors in Sustainability Assurance Engagements pp. 76-77

Mercedes Luque-Vílchez

Two Versions for the Same Story: Restatements and Assurance of Sustainability Reporting pp. 77-79

Nicolas Garcia-Torea