Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal: Volume 11 Issue 6

Towards a better understanding of sustainability accounting and management research and teaching in North America: a look at the community

Charles H. Cho, Anna Kim, Michelle Rodrigue, Thomas Schneider

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. The first is to provide insight into the academic life, teaching and research activities of active participants in the sustainability…

Seeking legitimacy

Dennis M. Patten

In this essay, the author reflects on the legitimacy theory in corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure research.

Managing legitimacy following loss of human life: Loblaw and Rana Plaza

Merridee Lynne Bujaki, Sylvain Durocher

This qualitative paper is about social reporting in response to an incident that involved the loss of human life. It examines Loblaw’s disclosures following the Rana Plaza…

Does managerial ability affect the quality of environmental financial disclosure?

Jason Chen, Jennifer Chen

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether managerial ability affects the quality of corporate environmental financial disclosures.

The greenwashing triangle: adapting tools from fraud to improve CSR reporting

John Richard Kurpierz, Ken Smith

The purpose of this paper is to show a significant overlap in the models accounting research uses for fraud and the models other research disciplines use for greenwashing, and…

The cannabis industry within the USA: the influence of gender on cannabis policy and sales

Casey Camors, Stacy L. Chavez, Andrea M. Romi

Motivated by upper echelon theory, this paper aims to examine the association between gender and the cannabis industry in the USA from both policy and an organizational…