Case Studies in ESG Accounting and Reporting:
Practices, Challenges, and Insights
Editors: Slobodan Kacanski & Susanne Stormer (Roskilde University)
CALL FOR CHAPTERS/CASES
Abstract/Idea Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2026
Full Case Study Submission Deadline: Sept 30st, 2026
Expected publication: fall 2027
Across Europe companies are facing the reality and increasing demand for reporting under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). These frameworks have changed the reality of corporate reporting practices now demanding for integrated reporting format, which should include also the ESG element. Inclusion of this element is not only a reporting burden, but has caused multidimensional challenges for complying undertakings – understanding business processes, value chains, governance, social aspects, emissions etc.
While the technical guidance is extensive and existing, there is limited understanding about what implementation looks like in practice, how companies operationalise the guidance at their organizational levels, which challenges they faced to achieve the required compliance level, and how did they overcome them. What do these shifts in disclosure and reporting practice mean for companies and their professionals? How are firms navigating ESG regarding regulatory uncertainty? What challenges and tensions stepped on the way in times of uncertainty for first time implementation of the regulatory framework? How has the Omnibus Package recreated the established organizational and reporting practices?
We invite professionals and academics to support this project with their short and practical case studies that will engage with these questions from diverse industrial angles and approaches taken to tackle various challenges in the process of onboarding the CSRD/ESRS regulation.
Details are found in the attached Call, or you can contact the editors:
Slobodan Kacanski kacanski@ruc.dk
Susanne Stormer sbstormer@ruc.dk
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