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Accountability, Social Responsibility and Sustainability addresses the broad and complicated interactions between organisational life, civil society, markets, inequality and environmental degradation through the lenses of accounting, accountability, responsibility and sustainability. Placing the way in which organisations are controlled and the metrics by which they are run at the heart of the analysis, this text also explores how this system opposes the very concerns of societal well-being and environmental stewardship that form the basis of civilised society. Gray, Adams and Owen offer an in-depth and nuanced guide to this theory, recognising the crucial role played by scholars and practitioners in approaching these central tensions. The theory is extensively supported by analysis of developments in practice and in a real-world context.   Aimed principally at undergraduate and postgraduate Accounting students, Accountability, Social Responsibility and Sustainability will prove invaluable to any  student, teacher or practitioner with an interest in the central role accounting, finance, accountability, CSR and sustainability play in the future of society and the planet. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting

• Cover2


• Half Title page


• Title page


• Copyright page


• Brief contents


• Contents


• Preface


• Blurb + Short Bios


• About the authors


• Publisher?s Acknowledgments


• Chapter 1: Introduction, issues and context


• 1.1 Introduction


• 1.2 What is social accounting?


• 1.3 Is social accounting important? Why?


• 1.4 Crisis? What crisis? Sustainability and the state of the world


• 1.5 Economics, civil society, state and markets


• 1.6 Summary and structure of the book


• References


• Chapter 2: Ways of seeing and thinking about the world: systems thinking and world views


• 2.1 Introduction


• 2.2 Systems thinking and general systems theory


• 2.3 Using the GST framework


• 2.4 Liberal economic democracy


• 2.5 The failings of liberal economic democracy


• 2.6 Capitalism and corporations


• 2.7 Reformism or radical change?


• 2.8 A neo-pluralistvision of the world


• 2.9 Democracy and information


• 2.10 Summary and conclusions


• References


• Chapter 3: Corporate social responsibility and accountability


• 3.1 Introduction


• 3.2 Why is (corporate) (social) responsibility important?


• 3.3 What is CSR ? can it be defined?


• 3.4 Views of the world and views of CSR


• 3.5 Clarifying responsibility in the interests of sustainability?


• 3.6 Why does so much confusion remain on CSR?


• 3.7 Accountability


• 3.8 A model of accountability


• 3.9 Some practical components of accountability


• 3.10 Defining corporate social responsibilities


• 3.11 Social responsibility and sustainability


• 3.12 Conclusions and implications for accountability and responsibility


• Appendix: Some limitations and extens