Research Handbook on Sustainability Reporting (Research Handbooks on Accounting series)

This insightful Research Handbook provides an overview of the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability reporting. Bringing together over 50 researchers from across the globe, it summarises the current state of knowledge, identifies key methodological approaches and research gaps, and encourages researchers to make further meaningful contributions to this dynamic field.

The Research Handbook begins by considering how sustainability reporting practice has developed to date and analyses the role of reporting standard setters. Chapter authors delve into underexplored issues of green technology in management control and the interplay between corporate governance and environmental reporting, examining its effects on the capital market. Ultimately the Research Handbook emphasises the multidimensionality of sustainability reporting across the globe and identifies best practice for future research, in particular the use of creative thinking to develop original frameworks that provide more nuanced insights into sustainability issues.

Advancing sustainability reporting knowledge, this Research Handbook is an invaluable resource for academics and students in accounting, environmental economics and corporate social responsibility. Emphasising the need for continued development in corporate sustainability reporting, this book is also beneficial to professionals working in corporate management and sustainability more broadly.

Edited by Gunnar Rimmel, Chair in Accounting and Sustainability Reporting, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark, Güler Aras, Professor of Finance, Accounting and Sustainability, Chair of the Center for Finance Governance and Sustainability (CFGS), Yildiz Technical University (YTU), Turkey, Diogenis Baboukardos, Associate Professor of Accounting, Audencia Business School, France and Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, Joanna Krasodomska, Associate Professor of Accounting, Krakow University of Economics, Poland, Christian Nielsen, Department of Management Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy and Frank Schiemann, Professor of Management Accounting, University of Bamberg, Germany