Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the proposition that corporate social responsibility reporting could be viewed as both an outcome of, and part of reputation risk management processes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws heavily on management research. In addition,...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to provide an account of the period prior to the creation of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): a body that was critical to the institutionalization of sustainability reporting (SR). By examining this “pre-history,” we bring to light the actors,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to interrogate the nature and relevance of debates around the existence of, and ramifications arising from, the Anthropocene for accounting scholarship. Design/methodology/approach: The paper’s aim is achieved through an in-depth analysis of the...

Purpose - To explore the proposition that corporate social responsibility reporting could be viewed as both as an outcome of and part of reputation risk management processes (we phrase this as being the reputation risk management thesis). Design/methodology/approach - The paper outlines how...

This report investigates how large emitters in the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) are accounting for emission allowances. The research involved a detailed survey of the financial statements of the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters in the EU ETS (26 companies). This was...

Part 1 Framing the issues -- 1 Curating environmental accounting knowledge -- 2 The foundations of environmental accounting -- 3 Theorising environmental accounting and reporting -- 4 Before research methods comes methodising: Implications for environmental accounting research -- 5 The...