Overview
- Provides a diverse and up-to-date representation of the field of social and environmental accounting and reporting
- Presents a wide range of case studies drawn from corporate practices in a variety of business sectors
- Addresses the debate on the costs and benefits of social, environmental reporting and the practical challenges involved
Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (CSEG)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sustainability Accounting and Accountability
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CSR and External Communication
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Empirical Analysis of CSR Reports
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About this book
This book addresses the growing interest among policymakers, practitioners and academics in the evolution and the future implications of social, environmental and sustainability accounting. To do so, it examines the conceptual and practical application of accountability at multiple levels and contexts, and presents a range of case studies focusing on salient issues, perspectives and the potential of multidimensional accounting and reporting regimes. Intended for a diverse audience, the book allows readers to gain a better understanding of the topics, encourages dialogue and debate, and stimulates innovation in scholarship, policy and practice.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mara Del Baldo is an associate professor of financial accounting, economics of sustainability and accountability at Urbino University, Italy. Her main research interests include entrepreneurship and small business, CSR and business ethics, financial and integrated reporting, social and environmental accounting and reporting, gender accounting and accounting history. She is a member of several Italian and international scientific associations (AIDEA, SIDREA and SISR; the European Council for Small Business; the GBS – Italian Group for Social Reporting; the OIBR-Italian Institute for Business Reporting; the European Business Ethics Network; the SPES Institute (Spirituality in Economics and Society, Leuven), the Global Corporate Governance Institute, USA and the CSEAR, Center for Social and Environmental Accounting Research). She serves as a board member and a reviewer of several international journals.
Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli is an Associate Professor of accounting, at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is a CAST board member and was a SIDREA board member until 2018. She was a Visiting Professor at the University of Elbasan, Albania; State University of Tirana, Albania; La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia; University of Pula, Croatia; University of Vlore, Albania; the New Bulgarian University of Sofia, Bulgaria,; University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; University of Diocese of Buia, Cameroon. Her research interests include accountability and gambling enterprises, CSR, ethical, social and environmental accounting and accountability, gender accounting and accounting history.
Massimo Ciambotti is a Full Professor of management accounting in the Department of Economics, Society and Politics and Vice-Rector of Urbino University, Italy. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the same university in the period 2009–2012 and President of Association for the Study of Small Firms (ASPI). His teaching and research experience ranges from cross-cultural management to business information systems to strategy and management control to cover the field of knowledge management and intellectual capital. Moreover, he has worked in these areas as a private consultant, especially in the world of small- and medium-sized firms.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Accounting, Accountability and Society
Book Subtitle: Trends and Perspectives in Reporting, Management and Governance for Sustainability
Editors: Mara Del Baldo, Jesse Dillard, Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli, Massimo Ciambotti
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41142-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41141-1Published: 01 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41144-2Published: 01 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41142-8Published: 31 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-7075
Series E-ISSN: 2196-7083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 280
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Financial Accounting, Business Ethics, Corporate Governance
Industry Sectors: Consumer Packaged Goods, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Pharma