Purpose – Through an analysis of corporate sustainable development reporting, this paper seeks to examine critically language use and other visual (re)presentations of sustainable development within the business context. It aims to provide a framework to interpret and tease out business...

Purpose – This paper aims to set out several of the key issues and areas of the inter-disciplinary field of climate change research based in accounting and accountability, and to introduce the papers that compose this AAAJ special issue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an...

Purpose – This paper aims to introduce the AAAJ special issue on “Accounting as codified discourse”, explicate the idea of codification and locate the notion of a “codified discourse” within the broader tradition of discourse studies in management. Design/methodology/approach – The...