Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting: From Ridicule to Revolution? From Hope to Hubris? - A Personal Review of the Field
The objective of this essay is to provide a coherent overview of author’s research and scholarship over the last two decades or so. As such it is a compromise between a revisionist history, an auto-critique and a review essay. This compromise arises, primarily, for two reasons. First, the work I hav...
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| description | The objective of this essay is to provide a coherent overview of author’s research and scholarship over the last two decades or so. As such it is a compromise between a revisionist history, an auto-critique and a review essay. This compromise arises, primarily, for two reasons. First, the work I have undertaken in developing social accounting has often been ad hoc and pragmatic; it certainly has not followed a carefully crafted master plan or research design. Secondly, the work is heavily context dependent. Issues such as personal history, changing attitudes in politics, business and the profession, the development of the author’s understandings and, interaction with colleagues have all had major influence on the research. Some of the work may only make sense when seen in those contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f6d22c581ea4a89a2726bbb674e91de2022-12-22T03:10:02ZengSebelas Maret UniversityIssues in Social and Environmental Accounting1978-05912460-60812008-06-012131810.22164/isea.v2i1.2222Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting: From Ridicule to Revolution? From Hope to Hubris? - A Personal Review of the FieldRob Gray0The School of Management University of St Andrews, UKThe objective of this essay is to provide a coherent overview of author’s research and scholarship over the last two decades or so. As such it is a compromise between a revisionist history, an auto-critique and a review essay. This compromise arises, primarily, for two reasons. First, the work I have undertaken in developing social accounting has often been ad hoc and pragmatic; it certainly has not followed a carefully crafted master plan or research design. Secondly, the work is heavily context dependent. Issues such as personal history, changing attitudes in politics, business and the profession, the development of the author’s understandings and, interaction with colleagues have all had major influence on the research. Some of the work may only make sense when seen in those contexts.http://isea.icseard.uns.ac.id/index.php/isea/article/view/22Social and environmental accounting, social and environmental reporting, personal review, sustainability. |
| spellingShingle | Rob Gray Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting: From Ridicule to Revolution? From Hope to Hubris? - A Personal Review of the Field Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting Social and environmental accounting, social and environmental reporting, personal review, sustainability. |
| title | Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting: From Ridicule to Revolution? From Hope to Hubris? - A Personal Review of the Field |
| title_full | Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting: From Ridicule to Revolution? From Hope to Hubris? - A Personal Review of the Field |
| title_fullStr | Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting: From Ridicule to Revolution? From Hope to Hubris? - A Personal Review of the Field |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting: From Ridicule to Revolution? From Hope to Hubris? - A Personal Review of the Field |
| title_short | Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting: From Ridicule to Revolution? From Hope to Hubris? - A Personal Review of the Field |
| title_sort | social and environmental accounting and reporting from ridicule to revolution from hope to hubris a personal review of the field |
| topic | Social and environmental accounting, social and environmental reporting, personal review, sustainability. |
| url | http://isea.icseard.uns.ac.id/index.php/isea/article/view/22 |
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