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Building Bridges to the Future: Mapping the Territory for Developing Social and Environmental Accountability

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Social and environmental accounting research has been contributing to the accounting and management research literatures for several decades. Yet it has been marginalised by the majority of accounting and management researchers in their focus upon economic development and corporate financial management. The emergence of global warming and carbon emissions onto the centre stage of public debate has put social and environmental accountability in the spotlight and begun to attract greater numbers of researchers and journals to the social and environmental research waterhole. This paper reflects on the role of the research journal as a purveyor and shaper of social and environmental accountability research, now and into the future. It cautions against the distortion of research agendas occasioned by governmental research assessments, simplistic economics-focused journal rankings and commercial publisher-driven citation indexes. Quality in publishing is called upon to be reconstructed so as to liberate rather than constrain research in this field, while critique and engagement are proposed for serious development and co-habitation. A commitment to breaking out of traditional research design strait-jackets in search of novelty and innovation is advocated as a bridge to the future contribution of social and environmental research to policy, practice, society and ecology.

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  • Lee D. Parker, 2011. "Building Bridges to the Future: Mapping the Territory for Developing Social and Environmental Accountability," Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(1), pages 7-24, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:seaccj:v:31:y:2011:i:1:p:7-24
    DOI: 10.1080/0969160X.2011.556389
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    1. Mia Kaspersen & Thomas Riise Johansen, 2016. "Changing Social and Environmental Reporting Systems," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 135(4), pages 731-749, June.
    2. Chris A. Kelsall, 2020. "Ecological Management Accounting—Taking into Account Sustainability, Does Accounting Have Far to Travel?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(21), pages 1-20, October.
    3. Dixon, Keith, 2013. "Growth and dispersion of accounting research about New Zealand before and during a National Research Assessment Exercise: Five decades of academic journals bibliometrics," MPRA Paper 51100, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Thomson, Ian, 2014. "Responsible social accounting communities, symbolic activism and the reframing of social accounting. A commentary on new accounts: Towards a reframing of social accounting," Accounting forum, Elsevier, vol. 38(4), pages 274-277.
    5. Bebbington, Jan & Larrinaga, Carlos, 2014. "Accounting and sustainable development: An exploration," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 39(6), pages 395-413.
    6. Wei Qian, 2013. "Embracing the Paradox in Educational Change for Sustainable Development: A Case of Accounting," Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, , vol. 7(1), pages 75-93, March.

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