Corporate Sustainability Accounting: A Nightmare or a Dream Coming True?

Stefan Schaltegger; Roger L. Burritt

doi:10.1002/bse.537

Corporate Sustainability Accounting: A Nightmare or a Dream Coming True?

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Corporate Sustainability Accounting: A Nightmare or a Dream Coming True? / Schaltegger, Stefan; Burritt, Roger L.
In: Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 15, No. 5, 09.2006, p. 293-295.

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title = "Corporate Sustainability Accounting: A Nightmare or a Dream Coming True?",

abstract = "Corporate sustainability accounting reflects the need to draw managers into debates and actions about corporate sustainability. Four different views of the term can be discerned: a voguish buzzword; a broad umbrella term; a single monetary measure and a pragmatic decision support tool. It is argued that two paths towards the further development of sustainability accounting seem to be available - top down and stakeholder driven.",

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