Ambidexterity<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN0000"/>, Puzzlement, Confusion and a Community of Faith? A Response to My Friends

This short paper is a response to the four personal and affectionate, if not quite eulogistic, essays that accompany this volume. These essays from David Owen, Lee Parker, Richard Laughlin and Jane Broadbent offer a range of themes about my work, about CSEAR and about social and environmental accounting which I seek to pick up and develop here. The essay is both by way of a personal reflection stimulated by the comments made and a reflection on the 'success' (or otherwise) of both social and environmental accounting and social science research more generally. The paper concludes with some speculative suggestions for how the social and environmental accounting community might look to the future.