Accounting, Financing and Governing Global Sustainability for Businesses and Societies
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 8435
Special Issue Editors
Interests: accounting, finance, governance, development and sustainability; accounting and governance (corporate governance and financial reporting, market-based accounting research); accountability, ethics, and sustainability (social and environmental accounting, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability accounting and reporting); finance and development (corporate finance, market-based finance research and financial economics, development finance)
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: financial accounting and reporting; accounting standards setting; public sector accounting; accounting in emerging markets
Interests: corporate governance; international accounting; microfinance
Interests: market-based accounting research; financial reporting/disclosure and auditing; corporate governance; accountability; social and environmental responsibility; public sector accounting, auditing and accountability; and critical perspectives on accounting and finance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ensuring sustainable use and management of the globe’s rapidly reducing social, economic and environmental resources has, and continues to be, one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century. In particular, the need for businesses and organisations to engage with global and national sustainable initiatives and reforms, ranging from the 1997 Kyoto protocol to the 2016 Paris Climate Change Agreement have become increasingly paramount. However, whilst literature relating to some aspects of sustainability, such as corporate social responsibility has been developed, studies addressing broader sustainability issues encompassing environment, including climate change, social, governance, economic, and finance ones, especially within the accounting and finance research context have yet to emerge. Therefore, this special issue seeks to extend, as well as offer new insights relating to global sustainability within an Accounting, Finance and Governance (AFG) disciplinary research context. Specifically, the special issue seeks to elicit all types of sustainability research, including, but not limited to:
- Accounting, financing and governing sustainability
- Accounting, financing and governing sustainable supply chains
- Accounting, financing and governing modern slavery
- Sustainable executive compensation mechanisms and practices
- Climate change, climate finance, climate bonds, green bonds, green finance
- Climate change accounting, carbon accounting, greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting, reporting and disclosures
- Corporate boards, gender and sustainability
- Sustainability performance, reporting/reports and disclosures
- Corporate social responsibility
- Financial technology (fintech) and sustainability. In particular, crypto currencies and bitcoin mining, water consumption, energy consumption and carbon or GHG emissions
- Social and environmental accounting
- Interactions among governance, sustainability and development
- Interactions among corporate governance, sustainability and performance or firm value
- Concepts, ethics and theories of sustainability
- Conceptual, ethical and theoretical frameworks of sustainability
- All types of review studies relating to sustainability, including critical literature reviews, metanalyses, normative literature reviews, and systematic literature reviews, amongst others.
Prof. Dr. Collins Ntim
Dr. Dimu Ehalaiye
Dr. Ernest Gyapong
Dr. John Kalimilo Malagila
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Accounting
- Finance
- Governance
- Sustainability
