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  1. New accounts: Towards a reframing of social accounting

    Article • Accounting Forum, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  2. Intrinsic Sustainable Development: Epistemes, Science, Business and Sustainability

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  3. How a Two-Step Approach Discloses Different Determinants of Voluntary Social and Environmental Reporting

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  4. Impression Management: Developing and Illustrating a Scheme of Analysis for Narrative Disclosure – A Methodological Note

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  5. Back to basics: What do we mean by environmental (and social) accounting and what is it for?—A reaction to Thornton

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, September 2013, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  6. The Emergence of Stand-Alone Social and Environmental Reporting in Mainland China: An Exploratory Research Note

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  7. Sustainability + Accounting Education: The Elephant in the Classroom

    Article • Accounting Education, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  8. Environmental, social + sustainability accounting: Quo Vadis?

    Article • Revista de Contabilidade e Organizações, July 2013, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    Rob Gray

  9. Pesquisa em Contabilidade Social como Se o Mundo Importasse Um ensaio sobre postalgia e um novo absurdismo

    Article • Revista de Contabilidade e Organizações, July 2013, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    Rob Gray

  10. Standing on the (skeletal) shoulders of a (middle-range) giant: Acknowledging intellectual debt

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, May 2013, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  11. A Methodology for Analysing and Evaluating Narratives in Annual Reports: A Comprehensive Descriptive Profile and Metrics for Disclosure Quality Attributes

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  12. Ambiguous but Tethered: An Accounting Basis for Sustainability Reporting

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  13. Lifting the Lid on the Use of Content Analysis to Investigate Intellectual Capital Disclosures

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  14. W(h)ither Ecology? The Triple Bottom Line, the Global Reporting Initiative, and Corporate Sustainability Reporting

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rob Gray

  15. Structure and Governance

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  16. Corporate Impact: Measuring and Managing Your Social Footprint

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  17. Evaluating the 20 year of a set of highly innovative papers on environmental accounting research

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, February 2012, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  18. Environmental Management, Measurement, and Accounting: Information for Decision and Control?

    Article • November 2011

    Rob Gray

  19. Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting and the Emergence of the External Social Audits: The Struggle for Accountability?

    Article • November 2011

    Rob Gray

  20. Accountability and human rights: A tentative exploration and a commentary

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, November 2011, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  21. PLEASE CITE THIS: An Exploratory Paper on Citations, Impacts and the Social Accounting Literature

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  22. Book reviews

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  23. A re‐evaluation of social, environmental and sustainability accounting

    Article • Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal, July 2010, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  24. Is accounting for sustainability actually accounting for sustainability…and how would we know? An exploration of narratives of organisations and the planet

    Article • Accounting Organizations and Society, January 2010, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  25. Social Accounting Research as If The World Matters

    Article • Public Management Review, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  26. The plenary lecture

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, June 2009, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  27. Some theories for social accounting?: A review essay and a tentative pedagogic categorisation of theorisations around social accounting

    Article • January 2009, Emerald

    Rob Gray, Carol Adams

  28. Review essay: Envisioning sustainability and re‐envisioning the large corporation: A short review essay on business and sustainable development1

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  29. Editorial

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  30. Future prospects for corporate sustainability reporting

    Article • July 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  31. Editorial

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  32. A few thoughts on theory, methodology and research design in social accounting: (or why is social accounting so difficult? part II)

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  33. Does sustainability reporting improve corporate behaviour?: Wrong question? Right time?

    Article • Accounting and Business Research, December 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  34. Social, environmental and sustainability reporting and organisational value creation?

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, November 2006, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  35. Editorial and CSEAR News

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  36. DRAFT: Governance and the centre for social and environmental accounting research1

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  37. DRAFT: Editorial policy forsocial and environmental accountability journal

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  38. NGOs, civil society and accountability: making the people accountable to capital

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, May 2006, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  39. Editorial and CSEAR news

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  40. Calling all members of CSEAR + all colleagues in social accounting: Invitation to contribute to an international re‐evaluation of social accounting1and CSEAR: Towards a St Andrews summit

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  41. Towards a more systematic study of standalone corporate social and environmental: An exploratory pilot study of UK reporting

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  42. Do financial markets care about social and environmental disclosure?

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, March 2006, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  43. Editorial and CSEAR news

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  44. Editorial and CSEAR News

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  45. Collecting social accounting data in developing countries: A cautionary tale from Egypt

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  46. Crossing the great divide: critiquing the sacred secular dichotomy in accounting research

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, April 2005, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  47. Editorial and CSEAR news

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  48. Accounting and theology, an introduction

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, July 2004, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  49. Requirements and Understandings for Publishing Academic Research: An Insider View

    Article • January 2004, Elsevier

    Rob Gray, Professor James Guthrie

  50. Why is social accounting so difficult? – Part I

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  51. Beyond a critique of pure reason: From policy to politics to praxis in environmental and social research

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, December 2003, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  52. Preparing a research proposal for a student research dissertation: a pedagogic note

    Article • Accounting Education, September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  53. Editorial and CSEAR News

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  54. Editorial & CSEAR news

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  55. A review of the 13th annual international congress on social and environmental accounting, 2003

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  56. OF MESSINESS, SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY: TOWARDS A MORE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING

    Article • The British Accounting Review, December 2002, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  57. The social accounting project and Accounting Organizations and Society Privileging engagement, imaginings, new accountings and pragmatism over critique?

    Article • Accounting Organizations and Society, October 2002, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  58. Can’t see the wood for the trees, can’t see the trees for the numbers? Accounting education, sustainability and the Public Interest

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, October 2002, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  59. Rites of passage and the self-immolation of academic accounting labour: an essay exploring exclusivity versus mutuality in accounting scholarship

    Article • Accounting Forum, March 2002, Wiley

    Rob Gray, Professor James Guthrie, Professor Lee D Parker

  60. Editorial and CSEAR News

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  61. Editorial & CSEAR news

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  62. The cloak of sustainability: A modern fable

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  63. An Account of Sustainability: Failure, Success and a Reconceptualization

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, October 2001, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  64. Social and Environmental Disclosure and Corporate Characteristics: A Research Note and Extension

    Article • Journal of Business Finance &amp Accounting, April 2001, Wiley

    Rob Gray

  65. Accounts of Sustainable Development: The Construction of Meaning Within Environmental Reporting

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2001, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  66. Editorial & CSEAR news

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  67. Editorial and CSEAR News

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  68. Environmental performance (?), profit, size and industry in UK companies: A brief exploration

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  69. Thirty years of social accounting, reporting and auditing: what (if anything) have we learnt?

    Article • Business Ethics A European Review, January 2001, Wiley

    Rob Gray

  70. Current Developments and Trends in Social and Environmental Auditing, Reporting and Attestation: A Review and Comment

    Article • International Journal of Auditing, November 2000, Wiley

    Rob Gray

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

    Article • Accounting Forum, June 2000, Wiley

    Rob Gray

  72. Experimenting with assessing corporate social responsibility in France: an exploratory note on an initiative by social economy firms

    Article • European Accounting Review, May 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  73. Editorial and CSEAR News

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  74. Editorial & CSEAR news

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  75. Review essay: It's official our futureissafe in the hands of business

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  76. Seeing the wood for the trees

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, March 1999, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  77. Not Bankrupt Yet

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, February 1999, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  78. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  79. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  80. Accounting and management research: passwords from the gatekeepers

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, October 1998, Emerald

    Rob Gray, Professor James Guthrie, Professor Lee D Parker

  81. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  82. Social disclosure in Uganda?A research note on investigating absence

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  83. An exploration of social reporting and MNCs in Nigeria

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  84. Corporate reporting to society:A review of recent reports

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  85. Circle of Friends (Stewart’s Song) (Brought to mind again in connection with Tony Puxty)

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, August 1998, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  86. Certainty

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, June 1998, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  87. Life's a killer

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, April 1998, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  88. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  89. IMAGINATION, A BOWL OF PETUNIAS AND SOCIAL ACCOUNTING

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, April 1998, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  90. Book Reviews

    Article • Accounting and Business Research, December 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  91. Green Accounting: Cosmetic Irrelevance or Radical Agenda for Change?

    Article • Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting, December 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  92. THE 1997 CSEAR summer school

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  93. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  94. Struggling with the praxis of social accounting

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, August 1997, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  95. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  96. International Comparisons of Social Disclosure: A Research Note

    Article • Asian Review of Accounting, January 1997, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  97. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  98. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  99. Limperg institut Emaa workshop

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  100. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  101. The Greening of Enterprise: An Exploration of the (NON) Role of Environmental Accounting and Environmental Accountants in Organizational Change

    Article • Critical Perspectives on Accounting, June 1995, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  102. Constructing a research database of social and environmental reporting by UK companies

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, May 1995, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  103. Corporate social and environmental reporting

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, May 1995, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  104. Editorial and CSEAR Report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  105. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  106. UK Accounting Academics And Publication: An Exploration Of Observable Variables Associated With Publication Output

    Article • The British Accounting Review, September 1994, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  107. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  108. At the heart of the community economy: Review

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, April 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  109. Teaching ethics in accounting and the ethics of accounting teaching: educating for immorality and a possible case for social and environmental accounting education

    Article • Accounting Education, March 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  110. Accountants' Attitudes and Environmentally-sensitive Accounting

    Article • Accounting and Business Research, March 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  111. Environmental accounting and auditing in Europe

    Article • European Accounting Review, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  112. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, September 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  113. On Collegiality And Academic Conversations: A Valedictory Editorial

    Article • The British Accounting Review, June 1993, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  114. Corporate accountability and the physical environment: Social responsibility and accounting beyond profit

    Article • Business Strategy and the Environment, June 1993, Wiley

    Rob Gray

  115. Current practice in environmental reporting

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, March 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  116. Editorial and CSEAR report

    Article • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, March 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Rob Gray

  117. Accounting and environmentalism: An exploration of the challenge of gently accounting for accountability, transparency and sustainability

    Article • Accounting Organizations and Society, July 1992, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  118. Editorial note

    Article • The British Accounting Review, March 1992, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  119. The physical environment, accounting and local development

    Article • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, February 1992, SAGE Publications

    Rob Gray

  120. The Environmental Audit: Green‐gauge or Whitewash?

    Article • Managerial Auditing Journal, May 1991, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  121. Accounting and economics: The psychopathic siblings: A review essay

    Article • The British Accounting Review, December 1990, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  122. EXTERNAL REPORTING BY UK UNIVERSITIES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF ACCOUNTING CHANGE

    Article • Financial Accountability and Management, March 1990, Wiley

    Rob Gray

  123. Accounting regulation and elite structure: Forces in the development of accounting policy

    Article • The British Accounting Review, June 1989, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  124. Inquiry and accounting: Alternate methods and research perspectives

    Article • The British Accounting Review, December 1988, Elsevier

    Rob Gray

  125. Corporate Social Reporting: Emerging Trends in Accountability and the Social Contract

    Article • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, June 1988, Emerald

    Rob Gray

  126. POWER AND POLICY MAKING: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN R & D STANDARD

    Article • Journal of Business Finance &amp Accounting, December 1982, Wiley

    Rob Gray

  127. From thesis to publication

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    james guthrie, Rob Gray, Professor James Guthrie

  128. Greener pricing

    Article • GSE Research Limited

    Rob Gray

  129. Corporate Sustainability: Accountability or Impossible Dream?

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Rob Gray

  130. Environmental accounting, managerialism and sustainability: Is the planet safe in the hands of business and accounting?

    Article • Emerald

    Rob Gray