Social and Environmental Accountability Journal

2011 - 2025

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

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Volume 34, issue 3, 2014

EDITORIAL pp. 131-133

John Ferguson and Carlos Larrinaga

Implications of Managerial Framing of Stakeholders in Environmental Reports pp. 134-156

Tiina Onkila, Kristiina Joensuu and Marileena Koskela

Content Analysis of Social and Environmental Reports of Italian Cooperative Banks: Methodological Issues pp. 157-171

Caterina Pesci and Ericka Costa

Incorporating Materiality Considerations into Analyses of Absence from Sustainability Reporting pp. 172-186

Jeffrey Unerman and Franco Zappettini

Defining and Measuring Corporate Sustainability: Are We There Yet? pp. 187-188

Matias Laine

Towards a Legitimate Compromise? An Exploration of Integrated Reporting in the Netherlands pp. 188-189

Matias Laine

Does Environmental Management Improve Financial Performance? A Meta-Analytical Review pp. 189-190

Ryan Peng

The Unintended Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility Performance on Investors' Estimates of Fundamental Value pp. 190-191

Jon D. Perkins

Politicizing the Expertise of the Accounting Industry in the Realm of Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 191-192

Wendy Shelton

Accountability, Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Accounting for Society and the Environment pp. 193-194

Suzana Grubnic

Volume 34, issue 2, 2014

Celebrating the Intellectual Contribution of Professor Rob Gray: The Past, Present and Future of Social and Environmental Accounting Research pp. 67-73

John Ferguson and Carlos Larrinaga

Professor Tony Lowe (1928-2014) pp. 74-74

Rob Gray

The Evolution of Social Reporting: The 'Early Days' pp. 75-80

Dave Owen

Rob Gray, Social and Environmental Accounting and Organisational Change pp. 81-86

Richard Laughlin

Constructing a Research Field: A Reflection on the History of Social and Environmental Accounting pp. 87-92

Lee Parker

Rob Gray: A View from a Friend but an Outsider pp. 93-96

Jane Broadbent

Ambidexterity, Puzzlement, Confusion and a Community of Faith? A Response to My Friends pp. 97-105

Rob Gray

Plotting the Contours of an Emerging Field: An Essay and Research Note Concerning British Academic Social and Environmental Accountants pp. 106-116

Rob Gray

Raising our Collective Game: CSEAR Future(s) pp. 117-123

Nola Buhr and Shona Russell

Why Do Companies Not Produce Sustainability Reports? pp. 124-124

Sumit Lodhia

Sustainability Reporting and Assurance: A Historical Analysis on a World-Wide Phenomenon pp. 125-125

Dominic S. B. Soh

Impression Management, Myth Creation and Fabrication in Private Social and Environmental Reporting: Insights from Erving Goffman pp. 126-126

Doris M. Merkl-Davies

Conformance and Deviance: Company Responses to Institutional Pressures for Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting pp. 127-127

Susan Wild

A Template for Integrated Reporting pp. 127-128

Pieter Conradie

Contrasting Realities: Corporate Environmental Disclosure and Stakeholder-Released Information pp. 128-129

Steven Burch

Volume 34, issue 1, 2014

Carbon Accounting and Carbon Governance pp. 1-5

Carlos Larrinaga

A Review of Carbon Accounting in the Social and Environmental Accounting Literature: What Can it Contribute to the Debate? pp. 6-28

Francisco Ascui

Mandated Climate Change Disclosures by Firms Participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative pp. 29-44

Martin Freedman and Jin Dong Park

Accounting for Emission Trading Schemes: A Still Open Debate pp. 45-51

Bego�a Giner

Time, Gender and Carbon: A Study of the Carbon Implications of British Adults' Use of Time pp. 52-52

Michele Andreaus

A Climate for Change? Critical Reflections on the Durban United Nations Climate Change Conference pp. 53-53

Matias Laine

The Cost of Carbon: Capital Market Effects of the Proposed Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) pp. 54-56

Andrea M. Romi

Convergence in Environmental Reporting: Assessing the Carbon Disclosure Project pp. 54-54

Jamie O'Neill

A Matter of Time: The Temporal Perspectives of Organisational Responses to Climate Change pp. 56-56

Thomas Schneider

Justifying Business Responses to Climate Change: Discursive Strategies of Similarity and Difference pp. 57-58

Matias Laine

Information Warfare and New Organizational Landscapes: An Inquiry into the ExxonMobil-Greenpeace Dispute over Climate Change pp. 58-59

Petros Vourvachis

Addressing the Climate Change-Sustainable Development Nexus: The Role of Multistakeholder Partnerships pp. 59-60

Yara Cintra

Enterprising Communities: Grassroots Sustainability Innovations pp. 61-62

Aideen O'Dochartaigh

Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability pp. 62-65

Katrin Herdering and Kate Kearins

Volume 33, issue 3, 2013

Social and Environmental Accounting Research: Homogeneity, Faddishness and Herding at the Expense Social Significance? pp. 131-133

John Ferguson and Jeffrey Unerman

Struggling Against Like-Minded Conformity in Order to Enliven SEAR: A Call for Passion pp. 134-144

Carmen Correa Ruiz and Matias Laine

Punk Rock, Festival Fringes and Football Fanzines: A Future for Social and Environmental Accounting Research? pp. 145-148

Ian Thomson

Taking a 'Parallax View' on What We Now Know about CSEAR?-super-† pp. 149-152

Colin Dey

Rejoinder: Respecting the Past, Celebrating the Present, Shaping the Future pp. 153-155

Carmen Correa Ruiz and Matias Laine

GRI Application Levels and Disclosure on Specific Environmental Activities: An Empirical Investigation of Industry Membership and Geographical Region of Top European Companies pp. 156-176

Abeer Hassan, Colette Hunter and Ayodele Asekomeh

Is Earnings Quality Associated with Corporate Social Responsibility? pp. 177-177

Ben Jacobsen

The Practice Turn in Environmental Reporting: A Study into Current Practices in Two Australian Commonwealth Departments pp. 178-179

Matias Laine

Ethos, Logos, Pathos: Strategies of Persuasion in Social/Environmental Reports pp. 179-180

Yanwen Shao

Understanding Syrian Accountants' Perceptions of, and Attitudes Towards, Social Accounting pp. 179-179

Donna Mangion

Nonfinancial Disclosure and Analyst Forecast Accuracy: International Evidence on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure pp. 180-181

Philipp Schreck

Private Standards in the Climate Regime: The Greenhouse Gas Protocol pp. 181-182

Delphine Gibassier

Governance, Media and the Quality of Environmental Disclosure pp. 183-184

Juergen Seufert

The Emergence of Triple Bottom Line Reporting in Spain pp. 183-183

Matias Laine

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets pp. 185-186

John Ferguson

The Organization of Hypocrisy: Talk, Decisions and Actions in Organizations pp. 186-188

Diane-Laure Arjali�s

Volume 33, issue 2, 2013

Editorial pp. 69-70

John Ferguson and Jeffrey Unerman

Making Sense of Accountability in Baltic Agro-Environmental Governance: The Case of Denmark's Green Growth Strategy pp. 71-90

Rasmus Kl�cker Larsen and Neil Powell

An Empirical Investigation of the Extensiveness of Stand-Alone Environmental Reporting in South Korea pp. 91-103

Charles H. Cho, Jong-Seo Choi, Young-Min Kwak and Dennis M. Patten

The Emergence of Stand-Alone Social and Environmental Reporting in Mainland China: An Exploratory Research Note pp. 104-112

Yaning Du and Rob Gray

Water Footprint: Help or Hindrance? pp. 113-114

Matthew Egan

Accounting as a Human Right: The Case of Water Information pp. 114-115

Shona Russell

Open for Business or Opening Pandora's Box? A Constructive Critique of Corporate Engagement in Water Policy: An Introduction pp. 115-116

Barbara Lynch

From Risks to Shared Value? Corporate Strategies in Building a Global Water Accounting and Disclosure Regime pp. 116-117

Edward Tello

Regulatory Theory Insights into the Past, Present and Future of General Purpose Water Accounting Standard Setting pp. 117-118

James Hazelton

Water Futures: Reviewing Water-Scenario Analyses through an Original Interpretative Framework pp. 118-119

Bob Miller

Corporate Social Responsibility and Tax Aggressiveness: An Empirical Analysis pp. 120-120

Wes Hamilton-Jessop

Re-Conceiving Managerial Capture pp. 121-122

Helen Tregidga

Impression Management: Developing and Illustrating a Scheme of Analysis for Narrative Disclosure -- A Methodological Note pp. 121-121

Rob Gray

How a Two-Step Approach Discloses Different Determinants of Voluntary Social and Environmental Reporting pp. 122-123

Rob Gray

Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy pp. 124-125

Eija Vinnari

Social and Sustainable Enterprise Changing the Nature of Business pp. 125-126

Hannele M�kel�

Intrinsic Sustainable Development: Epistemes, Science, Business and Sustainability pp. 126-128

Rob Gray

Volume 33, issue 1, 2013

As a Matter of Policy pp. 1-4

Jan Bebbington

Social Norms and Disclosure Policy: Implications from a Comparison of Financial and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting pp. 5-19

Cynthia Jeffrey and Jon D. Perkins

Valuing Desistence? A Social Return on Investment Case Study of a Throughcare Project for Short-Term Prisoners pp. 20-32

Cara Jardine and Bill Whyte

Actor-Network Theory: A Briefing Note and Possibilities for Social and Environmental Accounting Research pp. 33-50

Nick Barter and Jan Bebbington

Accounting for Climate Change and the Self-regulation of Carbon Disclosures pp. 51-52

Ian Thomson

Uncertainty Markets and Carbon Markets: Variations on Polanyian Themes pp. 51-51

Jane Andrew

Accounterability and the Problematics of Accountability pp. 53-53

Moritz von Schwedler

‘Breaking up the Sky’: The Characterisation of Accounting and Accountants in Popular Music pp. 53-55

Chris Poullaos

Ambiguous but Tethered: An Accounting Basis for Sustainability Reporting pp. 55-56

Rob Gray

Lifting the Lid on the Use of Content Analysis to Investigate Intellectual Capital Disclosures pp. 56-56

Rob Gray

A Methodology for Analysing and Evaluating Narratives in Annual Reports: A Comprehensive Descriptive Profile and Metrics for Disclosure Quality Attributes pp. 56-57

Rob Gray

Climate Change Performance Measurement, Control and Accountability in English Local Authority Areas pp. 57-58

Ericka Costa

Understandings of Accountability: An Autoethnographic Account Using Metaphor pp. 58-59

Nick Barter

Configuring Management Control Systems: Theorizing the Integration of Strategy and Sustainability pp. 59-60

Lies Bouten

The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment pp. 61-63

Matias Laine

Being Alive -- Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description pp. 63-65

Nick Barter

Treasure Islands. Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World pp. 65-66

Matias Laine