Accounting for Sustainability: Asia Pacific Perspectives

This book advances the understanding of corporate sustainability and challenges and roles of sustainability accounting in the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific region has shown fast economic growth for several decades which is expected to continue. In this context, Asia has become the “productio...

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Other Authors: Lee, Ki-Hoon. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schaltegger, Stefan. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science, 33
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70899-7
Table of Contents:
  • Editorial (Ki-Hoon Lee and Stefan Schaltegger)
  • Introduction
  • Part I – National Culture and Sustainability Accounting in the Asia Pacific Region
  • 1. National culture and its impacts on environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting practices in Asia Pacific Region (Ki-Hoon Lee & David Herold)
  • 2. Country readiness in adopting Integrated Reporting: A Diamond Theory approach from an Asia Pacific economy (Nuwan Gunarathne & Samanthi Senaratne)
  • 3. Corporate values and corporate social responsibility communication strategies in a Small Economy: The case of New Zealand (Radiah & Rashid)
  • Part II – Environmental and Sustainability Performance Measurement and Management
  • 4. Managing eco-efficiency for business sustainability: An investigation of top carbon polluters in Australia (Wei Qian et al. )
  • 5. The role of business networking on sustainable performance (Riana and Lanita)
  • 6. Improving corporate performance with final ecosystem services (Charles et al.)
  • Part III – Environmental Management Accounting: Material Flows, Cost Accounting, and Business Cases
  • 7. Cost behaviour of environmental protection and social contribution activities: Korean evidence (Yook and Kim)
  • 8. Lean-MFCA in Thailand (Wichai)
  • 9. Is Japanese MFCA useful to Vietnam? (Nguyen)
  • Part IV - Sustainability Reporting: Challenges and Approaches
  • 10.The functional differentiation between the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the sphere of sustainability reporting (Ogata et al.)
  • 11. Determinants of voluntary environmental reporting by New Zealand local authorities (Radiah et al.)
  • Acknowledgement (including reviewers list).