ABSTRACT

Sustainability Accounting, Management Control and Reporting: A European Perspective traces a picture of innovative performance measurement tools and approaches to drive organizations to implement their shared value and sustainability strategy, considering different perspectives around accounting, managerial control and reporting. In recent years, organizations managing their responsible approach with relevance and pressure from stakeholders and regulations has proven to be a major challenge. During the first two decades of the 21st century, many companies have reached a real maturity in this area and have deployed coherent responsible approaches that are integrated into their overall strategy. It is now a matter of steering these responsible approaches from an accounting and managerial standpoint, but also of reporting on them. It requires the simultaneous use of comprehensive accounting, controlling and reporting tools. This book provides an innovative perspective on sustainable management control, comprehensive accounting and integrated reporting, presenting the most recent proposals and the main critical issues. Aimed at researchers, academics, managers, business leaders and advanced students, the book will be especially valuable to those in the fields of corporate social responsibility, strategic management, and accounting.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part I|71 pages

Non Financial Information and Comprehensive Accounting

chapter 1|36 pages

The CARE Model

A response to the stakes and pitfalls of comprehensive accounting tools?

part II|86 pages

Measuring and Reporting Shared Value and Sustainability

chapter 4|34 pages

Integrated Reporting

Its Spread in EU Territories Ten Years After the Founding of the IIRC

chapter 5|32 pages

The Determinants of Integrated Report Quality

Evidences from an Empirical Analysis

part III|121 pages

Management Control for Society and the Environment

chapter 7|32 pages

Exploring Environmental Management Control in Proactive Firms

Theory and Practice

chapter 9|31 pages

Appropriation of Environmental Management Tools by Companies

Explaining the Implementation Gap

chapter 10|17 pages

The Paradoxes of CSR Instrumentation

Making CSR a Lever for Organizational Learning

chapter |3 pages

Conclusion