This paper comes from comments made at an event at the 2013 CSEAR Summer School to celebrate the considerable and ongoing contributions of Professor Rob Gray to the development of Social and Environmental Accounting (SEA). It concentrates on Rob Gray's contributions to the pressing agenda for...

The brief given me is to provide an overview of the 'early days' of social (and environmental) reporting whilst also reflecting on the intellectual contribution of Rob Gray towards the development of the field. One initial problem that presents itself here is that social disclosure within the...

This is a personal reflection on the contribution that Professor Rob Gray has made. It provides a challenge to those who seek to follow his work to ensure that the radicality and critical challenge of current practices in Social and Environmental Accounting is not lost.