Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a critical review of the development and current state‐of‐the‐art of social and environmental accounting (SEA) research, with particular reference to the role and contribution of the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal , while...

The environmental reporting practices of a group of “good” disclosers are reviewed by focusing on their most recent annual report. Analysis is divided according to references to the environment and the form of reporting, and some interesting examples are revealed, but little consistency in...

Provides a response to Puxty et al. ′s call for academics to become involved in public policy debate. Addresses the issue of the effect on British university accounting research of the promotion and undertaking of continual research selectivity exercises. This should be of direct concern to...

Social and environmental issues have become a central part of the academic accounting subject field. Examines the range of papers in this area at the APIRA conference. Indicates some of the pitfalls – empiricism, theoretical awareness, relevance to practice, communication between academics –...

A recent study illustrates that shop stewards are unambitious in their demand for and use of financial information in the negotiating arena. The TUC, however, is anxious to extend rights to information, consultation and representation in recognition of financial information as an important power...

Who will train the professional and technician grades of staff that will be needed in the next few years to develop the North Sea oil fields? So far all the signs are that it will not be the UK education system despite several Government reports and the attention of the Manpower Services...

When you read an article in ICT, can you easily understand what the writer is saying? Or do you have to struggle through it, wringing the meaning out of each complex sentence, one by one? When someone in the training world writes an article for publishing it is generally because he has something...

G REEN A. E. and O WEN D. (2003) Skill shortages: local perspectives from England, Reg. Studies 37 , 123-134. Skill shortages have important implications for economic competitiveness and social inclusion. This paper is concerned with examining contrasts in skill shortages between local areas in...