Sustainability Accounting and Accountability Book

List of figures     ix
List of tables     x
List of contributors     xii
Foreword     xvii
Acknowledgements     xix
Introduction to sustainability accounting and accountability   Jeffrey Unerman   Jan Bebbington   Brendan O'Dwyer     1
Setting the Context for Sustainability Accounting and Accountability     17
Mapping the terrain of sustainability accounting   Ian Thomson     19
Legitimating the social accounting project: an ethic of accountability   Jesse F. Dillard     37
External Reporting of Sustainability Policies and Practices     55
Histories of and rationales for sustainability reporting   Nola Buhr     57
The 'standardization' of sustainability reporting   Carol Adams   Venkat Narayanan     70
Stakeholder engagement and dialogue   Jeffrey Unerman     86
External stakeholders' perspectives on sustainability reporting   Carol Ann Tilt     104
Organizational legitimacy as a motive for sustainability reporting   Craig Deegan     127
Sustainability reporting: insights from neoinstitutional theory   Carlos Larrinaga-Gonzalez     150
Assurance practice in sustainabilityreporting   David Owen     168
Future prospects for corporate sustainability reporting   Markus J. Milne   Rob Gray     184
Accounting for Sustainable Development Within Organizations     209
Full cost accounting: Adam Smith meets Rachel Carson?   Nicolas Antheaume     211
Changing organizational attitudes and culture through sustainability accounting   Jan Bebbington     226
Sustainability accounting and accountability in the public sector   Amanda Ball   Suzana Grubnic     243
Environmental and social assessment in sustainable finance   Andrea B. Coulson     266
Other Issues     283
The nature of NGO accountability: motives, mechanisms and practice   Brendan O'Dwyer     285
Developing silent and shadow accounts   Colin Dey     307
Sustainability accounting and education   David Collison   John Ferguson   Lorna Stevenson     327
Postscript and conclusions   Jan Bebbington   Brendan O'Dwyer   Jeffrey Unerman     345
Index     351