Citation
(2014), "Special issue on RMIT Accounting for Sustainability Conference, June 2014", Managerial Auditing Journal, Vol. 29 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/MAJ-04-2014-003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Special issue on RMIT Accounting for Sustainability Conference, June 2014
Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: International Managerial Auditing Journal, Volume 29, Issue 5
http://www.rmit.edu.au/events/asc2014
Guest Editors: Gillian Vesty and Steven Dellaportas, RMIT University
The important role of accounting in mitigating (or exacerbating) social and environmental impacts continues to offer new areas of research. As sustainability accounting strategies and associated reporting mechanisms adapt to changing business conditions, so must the academic discourse that surrounds the emerging sustainable business value propositions. In addition to environmental factors, the social voice also needs to be heard and is equally implicated in internal management accounting controls and governance mechanisms, as well as internal and external auditing and corporate reporting.
The goal of this special issue is to provide an opportunity for a high level academic discourse on:
1. how organizations and accountants incorporate sustainability in internal management decisions and external reporting disclosures;
2. how assurance services (and their providers) adapt to this dynamic environment;
3. how systems respond to changing business and economic conditions; and
4. what will accounting and auditing for a sustainability future look like.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Development of theoretical frameworks to explain motivations for, and reactions to, for example: * Integrated reporting, * Assuring sustainability reports, * Sustainability regulation and taxation, * Emission trading schemes
* The role of accounting educators to inspire the creation of shared values
* The role of stakeholders in accounting for a sustainable future
* Sustainability within industries, for example: * Food security, * Water accounting, *Changing manufacturing environments
* Biodiversity and valuing natural capital
* Embedding sustainability in strategy and business models
* Corporate governance mechanisms designed to improve social and environmental performance.
Submission Instructions:
The submission deadline for this special issue is 30 September 2014.
Submitted papers should not be previously published or under review for publication elsewhere.
Consideration for this special issue is conditional upon the paper being presented at the RMIT Accountability for Sustainability Conference 2014: http://www.rmit.edu.au/events/asc2014
A letter of acceptance must be submitted to the journal along with the manuscript.
The format of the papers should follow the submission guidelines of MAJ: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals. htm?id=maj
Each paper will be reviewed by the Guest Editors and, if judged suitable for this publication, will be sent to two referees for a double blind peer review.
Please submit your paper online via ScholarOne Manuscripts: http://http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/maj
Publication of accepted papers is expected to be in 2015.