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Social and environmental accounting and student choice: an exploratory research note

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  • David Collison
  • Rob Gray
  • David Owen
  • Donald Sinclair
  • Lorna Stevenson

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This paper reports on an exploratory study across three universities which was intended to help inform us about why students make the options choices that they do. More particularly, why do students choose–or choose not–to take social and environmental accounting courses? Based upon a series of interviews, a survey was drawn up and applied across the three universities. The data analysis reveals that whilst many initial expectations were not incorrect, the reasons for student choice are more complex than social and environmental accounting teachers and researchers have tended to assume. This exploratory study points to a wider range of possible explanations for student choice that might be employed as foci in further work on why students do what they do.

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  • David Collison & Rob Gray & David Owen & Donald Sinclair & Lorna Stevenson, 2000. "Social and environmental accounting and student choice: an exploratory research note," Accounting Forum, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 170-186, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:accfor:v:24:y:2000:i:2:p:170-186
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-6303.00034
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    Cited by:

    1. Rita van Deuren & Sicco C. Santema, 2012. "How to choose your minor? Decision making variables used in the selection of a minor by undergraduate students from a Dutch university of applied sciences," Working Papers 2012/06, Maastricht School of Management.
    2. Lorna Stevenson, 2002. "Social and environmental accounting teaching in UK and Irish Universities: a research note on changes between 1993 and 1998," Accounting Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(4), pages 331-346.
    3. Wyness, Lynne & Dalton, Fiona, 2018. "The value of problem-based learning in learning for sustainability: Undergraduate accounting student perspectives," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 1-19.

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