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Call for papers for "Revista de Contabilidad-Spanish Accounting
Review" - Special issue on "Social Responsibility Accounting and Reporting
in times of ‘Sustainability downturn’?"

Guest editors: Carmen Correa-Ruiz and José M. Moneva

Submissions are invited for a RC- SAR special issue on “Social
Responsibility Accounting and Reporting in times of Sustainability
downturn?” Although the literature on sustainability/social responsibility
accounting and reporting has increased over the last decade, further
research should still be conducted to gain a better understanding of current
practice in and the discourse surrounding sustainability/social
responsibility accounting and reporting. Moreover, different ways of
assisting all types of organizations should also be explored, in order to
develop more sustainable and responsible patterns of behaviour. This
research topic is even more urgent nowadays, at a time when sustainability
performance does not seem to match the expectations raised by sustainable
development and, moreover, and when the economic downturn could be further
eroding social and environmental concerns and values and creating a
“Sustainability downturn”. In reflecting and discussing on the notion of
“sustainability downturn”, we anticipate that contributions to this special
issue will deal with six main topics: understanding sustainability and/or
social responsibility in accounting, enhancing sustainability awareness and
responsible accounting education, exploring mechanisms for improved
accountability and transparency, investigating responsible governance within
organizations, researching management change for improved sustainability and
scrutinizing effective stakeholder dialogue.

Consistent with RC-SAR editorial policy, we invite contributions from a wide
range of theoretical, methodological or epistemological standpoints,
potentially including, but not limited to, the following:

• Sustainability and/or social responsibility in accounting:

o Discourses around sustainability and/or social responsibility
o Changing perceptions of social responsibility

• Enhancing sustainability awareness and responsible accounting education:
o Responsible management and accounting education
o Social responsibility reporting issues in governmental bodies and universities
o Sustainability reporting as a way to enhance society awareness and
responsible behaviour within corporations

• Mechanisms for improved accountability and transparency:
o NGO accountability, corporate accountability and the interplay between them
o The role of shadow accounts. What could organizations learn from the
process of shadow accounting?
o Sustainable full cost accounting
o Assurance of sustainability reports and other instruments of credibility
and trust
o Accountability and social responsibility in specific industries
o Socially responsible investment and corporate accountability

• Responsible governance within corporations
o Corporate governance and accountability
o Ethics and corporate behaviour accountability
o Corporate social responsibility/sustainability and financial performance
• Management change for improved sustainability
o Sustainability accounting from manager’s perspective
o Sustainability accounting and management
o Organizational change for social accountability
o Sustainability performance and sustainability indicators
• Effective stakeholder dialogue
o Engaging stakeholders in social responsibility and sustainability reporting
o Stakeholders’ use of sustainability reporting

Submission process Submissions are due by 20 June 2010. Authors are
encouraged to contact the Guest Editors in advance to discuss their proposed
topics.

Manuscripts should be prepared and submitted in accordance with RC-SAR notes
for contributors (www.rc-sar.es) and will be subject to RC-SAR's regular
double-blind review process. All submissions must be done through RC-SAR’s
online system at:

http://services.bepress.com/sar.

Please specify that your submission is to the special issue on "Social
Responsibility Accounting and Reporting in times of Sustainability downturn?"

Accepted papers are scheduled for publication in September 2011 (vol. 14, n. 2).

Guest Editors
Please direct any enquiries to the Guest Editors:

Carmen Correa-Ruiz, Universidad Pablo de Olavide – Centro de Investigación
en Contabilidad
Social y Medioambiental (CICSMA)
Phone: +34 954 349280
E-mail: mccorrui@upo.es

José M. Moneva., Universidad de Zaragoza – Centro de Investigación en
Contabilidad Social y
Medioambiental (CICSMA).
Phone: +34 976767195
E-mail: jmmoneva@unizar.es