Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal: Volume 31 Issue 8

Going beyond western dualism: towards corporate nature responsibility reporting

Sonja Gallhofer

The purpose of this paper is to outline an ecofeminist lens for the analysis of accounting, which is applied to: first, the critique of corporate social responsibility reporting…

Analysing the accounting measurement of financial sustainability in local governments through political factors

Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, Andrés Navarro Galera, María Deseada López Subirés, Laura Alcaide Muñoz

The purpose of this paper is to obtain new knowledge about the accounting measurement of financial sustainability in local governments, by studying the influence of political…

Accounting and the banality of evil: Expropriation of Jewish property in Fascist Italy (1939–1945)

Valerio Antonelli, Raffaele D’Alessio, Roberto Rossi, Warwick Funnell

The purpose of this paper is to identify the significant role of accounting in the expropriation of Jewish real estate after the enforcement of race laws under Benito Mussolini’s…

Toward a political economy of corporate governance change and stability in family business groups: A morphogenetic approach

Shaila Ahmed, Shahzad Uddin

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate a political economy of corporate governance (CG) change and stability in family business groups (BGs) and assist in explaining why…

Making sustainability meaningful: aspirations, discourses and reporting practices

Cristiano Busco, Elena Giovannoni, Fabrizio Granà, Maria Federica Izzo

The purpose of this paper is to explore the enabling role of accounting and reporting practices as discourses about sustainability unfold inside organizations. In particular, the…

Literature and insights Editorial

Steve Evans

Shakespeare was indisputably an accountant!

Lelys Maddock