Registrations have now closed.
A-CSEAR 2008 Conference
Welcome to the website of the 7th Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research to be held between Sunday 7 and Tuesday 9 December 2008. The Conference will take place in the Hawke Building City West campus of the University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia. It is hosted by the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Sustainability, School of Commerce in the Division of Business.
The conference website will contain the most recent information about A-CSEAR 2008. Online registration is now available for abstract and full paper submission.
Support from our sponsors is very gratefully acknowledged.
We look to welcoming you to the Conference in December 2008. Best wishes on behalf of the organizing committee.
Roger Burritt
Conference Chair
Invited Plenary Speakers
Professor Katsuhiko Kokubu, Kobe University, Japan
Professor Lee Parker, University of South Australia, Australia
Professor Dr Stefan Schaltegger, Leuphana University, Germany
Associate Professor Carol Tilt, Flinders University, Australia
Background To The Conference
Since 2001, the Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research (paralleling the annual Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) conferences, held in Scotland) has been organised by Australian and New Zealand Universities as follows: 2001 Victoria University, Melbourne; 2002 Charles Sturt University, Bathurst; 2003, Macquarie University, Sydney; 2004 Deakin University, Geelong; 2005 Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; 2006 The University of Sydney, Sydney. In December 2008 the 7th Australasian Conference will be hosted by the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Sustainability, School of Commerce at The University of South Australia, Adelaide. Planning for 2009 is already underway with the proposed venue being the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
The Conference is deliberately an informal gathering of researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners concerned with social and environmental accounting in the very widest sense. Normally limited to a maximum of around 60 delegates, the emphasis is on a high level of interaction, discussion and debate in a friendly, supportive and relaxed atmosphere. Although papers from all areas of social and environmental accounting are welcome a main theme will be ‘Sustainability Accounting - A Question for Management.´ This year´s conference will also include a parallel stream on Environmental Management Accounting supported by the Environmental Management Accounting Network – Asia Pacific (EMAN - AP). The schedule for the Conference is yet to be finalised. Papers will either be presented in a single session or parallel sessions, depending on demand from registrants and on the papers that are offered.
