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Calls for accountability and sustainability: how organizations respond

In: Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability

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  • Hannele Mäkelä
  • Charles H. Cho

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Recent decades have witnessed various types of calls for organizational sustainability and accountability. As sustainability has grown into a serious global concern and companies are seen as causing various forms of social and environmental degradation, but also as possessing significant resources to tackle the sustainability challenge, various stakeholders and social movements are requiring corporate accountability for their actions towards a more sustainable and just society. In this chapter we outline the organizational responses to such calls for accountability and sustainability, and offer practical examples of such calls and responses. We discuss the organizational responses from reactive/symbolic, integrated, to holistic. Furthermore, we discuss what "accountability" possibly means for each type of response.

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  • Hannele Mäkelä & Charles H. Cho, 2022. "Calls for accountability and sustainability: how organizations respond," Chapters, in: Carol A. Adams (ed.), Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability, chapter 6, pages 89-108, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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