Accountability Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Accounting - Dave Owen

Accountability Social Responsibility and Sustainability addresses the broad and complicated interactions between organisational life civil society markets inequality and environmental degradation through the lenses of accounting accountability responsibility and sustainability. Placing the way in which organisations are controlled and the metrics by which they are run at the heart of the analysis this text also explores how this system opposes the very concerns of societal well-being and environmental stewardship that form the basis of civilised society. Gray Adams and Owen offer an in-depth and nuanced guide to this theory recognising the crucial role played by scholars and practitioners in approaching these central tensions. The theory is extensively supported by analysis of developments in practice and in a real-world context. Aimed principally at undergraduate and postgraduate Accounting students Accountability Social Responsibility and Sustainability will prove invaluable to any student teacher or practitioner with an interest in the central role accounting finance accountability CSR and sustainability play in the future of society and the planet.

TITLE: Accountability Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Accounting for Society and the Environment

AUTHOR: Dave Owen

SKU: 9780273681380

PUBLISHER: Pearson Education Limited

DATE PUBLISHED: 14/01/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 360

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 268 mm x 279 mm x 27 mm

WEIGHT: 1484 gr