Social and Environmental Accountability Journal (SEAJ) is the official Journal of The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research. It is a predominantly refereed Journal committed to the creation of a new academic literature in the broad field of social, environmental and sustainable development accounting, accountability, reporting and auditing. The Journal provides a forum for a wide range of different forms of academic and academic-related communications whose aim is to balance honesty and scholarly rigour with directness, clarity, policy-relevance and novelty. SEAJ welcomes all contributions that fulfil the criteria of the journal, including conceptual papers, empirical papers, essays, manuscripts reporting or proposing engagement, commentaries, polemics, and reviews of articles or books. A key feature of SEAJ is that papers are shorter than the word length typically anticipated in academic journals in the social sciences. A clearer breakdown of the proposed word length for each type of paper in SEAJ can be found here.
" SEAJ is unique in the social and environmental accounting literature. From emerging issues, to policy engagement, to cutting edge ideas, it leads the way...for research and practice engagement in the latest social and environmental developments, SEAJ is the journal."
Professor Lee D. Parker
RMIT University, Australia and Glasgow University, Scotland
Editor - Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
Peer Review Policy for Research Articles
Social and Environmental Accountability Journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. All submitted manuscripts (conceptual, empirical, essay, reporting or proposing engagement) are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double-anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Policy for the Reviews of Articles and Books
Article and book reviews published in SEAJ are handled by the Reviews Editors and are not sent out for independent, anonymous peer-review. Authors are invited to review articles or books for the Journal. By their very nature, reviews express a matter of opinion about previously published work. They are intended to provide an overview of the current literature in the field and help foster engagement and debate. In particular instances, should a reviewed author wish to respond to his/her article' s review or book’s review in a constructive and collegial manner, and with the aim of contributing to the academic debate and providing an additional perspective on his/her work, the author(s) may write a short reply. In such circumstances, the author(s) are invited to contact the Reviews Editors prior to writing a response. The ultimate decision to publish a response to a review remains with the Review Editors.
Review Policy for Commentaries and Polemics
All submitted commentaries and polemics are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, will be editorially reviewed.
Editors
Oana Apostol, Tampere University, Finland
Colin Dey, University of Dundee, UK
Michelle Rodrigue , Université Laval, Canada
The Joint Editors can be reached at: [email protected]
Executive Editorial Board
Reviews Editors
Mercy Denedo, Durham University, UK
Nicolas Garcia-Torea , Universidad de Burgos, Spain
Erin Twyford , University of Wollongong, Australia
Convenor
Helen Tregidga, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Social Media Editor
Kylie Kingston, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Editorial Board
Jane Andrew, The University of Sydney, Australia
Jill Atkins, Sheffield University, UK
M. Gabriella Baldarelli, Università di Bologna, Italy
Jan Bebbington, Lancaster University, UK
Lies Bouten, IÉSEG School of Management, France
Gordon Boyce , La Trobe University, Australia
Judy Brown , Victoria University, New Zealand
Emilia Cederberg, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Robert Charnock, University of Birmingham, UK
Charles Cho , York University, Canada
Jong-Seo Choi , Pusan National University, South Korea
Massimo Contrafatto , University of Bergamo, Italy
Christine Cooper , University of Edinburgh, UK
Stuart Cooper , University of Bristol, UK
Carmen Correa , Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Ericka Costa , University of Trento, Italy
Thomas Cuckston, University of Birmingham, UK
Charl de Villiers , The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jesse Dillard , University of Central Florida, USA
Matthew Egan, The University of Sydney, Australia
Teresa Eugénio , Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Patricia Everaert , Ghent University, Belgium
Frank Figge , KEDGE Business School, France
John Ferguson , University of St Andrews, UK
Sophie Giordano-Spring , Université de Montpellier, France
Suzana Grubnic , Loughborough University, UK
James Guthrie , Macquarie University, Australia
Jim Haslam , Sheffield University, UK
Sophie Hoozé , Ghent University, Belgium
Katrin Hummel , Vienna University of Business & Economics, Austria
Javier Husillos , Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
M. Azizul Islam , University of Aberdeen, UK
Thomas Riise Johansen , Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Marc Journeault, Université Laval, Canada
Matias Laine, Tampere University, Finland
Carlos Larrinaga , University of Burgos, Spain
Glen Lehman , University of South Australia, Australia
Tiffany Leung , City University of Macau, China
Sumit Lodhia , University of South Australia, Australia
Michel Magnan , Concordia University, Canada
Hannele Mäkelä , Tampere University, Finland
John McKernan , University of Glasgow, UK
Giovanna Michelon , University of Bristol, UK
Markus Milne , Canterbury University, New Zealand
Lee Moerman , University of Wollongong, Australia
Atsuo Mukoyama , Osaka City University, Japan
Artie Ng , The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Brendan O’Dwyer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lee Parker , RMIT University, Australia
Den Patten , Illinois State University, USA
Stephanie Perkiss, University of Wollongong, Australia
Marek Reuter, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Gunnar Rimmel , University of Reading, UK
Leonardo Rinaldi , Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Robin Roberts , University of Central Florida, USA
Andrea Romi , Texas Tech University, USA
Shona Russell , University of St Andrews, UK
Stefan Schaltegger , University of Lüneburg, Germany
Thomas Schneider , Ryerson University, Canada
Matthew Scobie , Canterbury University, New Zealand
Daniela Senkl , University of Guelph, Canada
Juliette Senn , Montpellier Business School, France
Madlen Sobkowiak , University of Birmingham, UK
Matthew Sorola, Toulouse Business School, France
Thomas Thijssens , Open University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Ian Thomson , University of Birmingham, UK
Carol Tilt , University of South Australia, Australia
Dale Tweedie , Macquarie University, Australia
Eija Vinnari , Tampere University, Finland
Past Editors
1982-1992: James Guthrie and M. R. Mathews - Joint Editors, Social Accounting Monitor
1993-2007: Rob Gray - Editor, Social and Environmental Accounting
2008-2011: Jan Bebbington - Joint Editor, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
2008-2013: Jeffrey Unerman - Joint Editor, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
2012-2015: John Ferguson - Joint Editor, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
2014-2017: Carlos Larrinaga - Joint Editor , Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
2016-2019: Matias Laine - Joint Editor, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
2018-2021 : Helen Tregidga - Joint Editor, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
Social and Environmental Accountability Journal is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) is an international membership-based network that aims to mobilise accounting scholarship to enable a more sustainable society.
CSEAR aims to be a world-recognized, global community of scholars who engage with students, activists, practitioners, policy makers and other interested groups in order to generate and disseminate knowledge on social and environmental accounting and accountability. Our mission is to encourage and facilitate high quality, relevant research, teaching and external engagement with practice and policy through developing knowledge, expertise, resources and a supportive network for mentoring and career development.
CSEAR is overseen by an Executive Council (currently Chaired by Professor Ian Thomson, University of Birmingham) and managed on a day-to-day basis by its Directors (Professor John Ferguson and Dr Shona Russell, University of St Andrews).
Reg Mathews Memorial Prize
Each year SEAJ awards the Reg Mathews Memorial Prize. Winners can be found here.
About the Prize
The Reg Mathews Memorial Prize is an annual award for the paper considered to have made the most significant contribution towards the social and environmental accounting literature published in Social and Environmental Accountability Journal ( SEAJ). The paper is selected by the Executive Editorial Board of SEAJ and is named in memory of Professor Reg Mathews, a leading figure in the development of social and environmental accounting. The award was established in 2013, and first awarded for papers published in 2012.
Professor Reg Mathews
Professor Reg Mathews was one of social accounting's earliest and most influential pioneers. An academic for most of his life, he was a prolific author and an exceptionally generous colleague. His influence on the emerging field of social accounting was manifest equally in his tireless support of new academics and in his important papers on such matters as education, approaches to practice and state-of-the-art reviews of the subject. He was the founding joint editor of Social Accounting Monitor, which paved the way for the international CSEAR community and which developed over time into what we now know as Social and Environmental Accountability Journal.
The CSEAR community honoured Reg with a Festchrift entitled Social Accounting, Mega Accounting and Beyond in 2007 and it is entirely fitting that his inestimable contribution be remembered in this annual prize. Reg passed away in 2012 after a long illness.
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