Published In
Accounting Forum
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
11-2004
Subjects
Economic development -- Environmental aspects, Sustainable development -- Finance, Social responsibility of business
Abstract
Environmental stewardship must become a primary concern if management is to adequately fulfill its societal responsibilities. Management and accounting information systems must aggressively respond to these emerging requirements in order to support adequately the associated information needs as well as to design organizational systems that motivate and facilitate desired behavior. Our purpose here is to consider a framework useful for developing environmentally enlightening management and accounting information systems that take into account alternative environmental perspectives. The framework can be used to develop prototypes representing different levels of environmental enlightenment and, as such, can provide general guidance for moving collectives and organizations toward a more environmentally responsible posture. The framework is illustrated using an example from the salmon farming industry provided in Georgakopoulos and Thomson (2004).
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DOI
10.1016/j.accfor.2004.12.001
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34983
Citation Details
Published as: Jesse Dillard, Darrell Brown & R. Scott Marshall (2005) An environmentally enlightened accounting, Accounting Forum, 29:1, 77-101, DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2004.12.001
Description
This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Accounting Forum. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Accounting Forum, [Volume 29, Issue 1]