Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management

Ataur Belal, Aston University, Birmingham, UKStuart Cooper, University of Bristol, Bristol, UKFátime de Souza Freire, University of Brasília, Brazil

• Reflections on Editing Advances In Environmental Accounting & Management - Martin Freedman and Bikki JaggiGuest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue - Fátima De Souza FreireHegemonies, Politics, and the Brazilian Academy In Social and Environmental Accounting: a Post-Structural Note - Barbara De Lima Voss, David Bernard Carterand Bruno Meirelles Salottian Analysis of the Adherence to Gri for Disclosing Information on Social Action and Sustainability Concerns - Vicente Lima Crisóstomo, Priscila De Azevedo Prudêncio and Hyane Correia ForteFinancial Performance of Stocks of Companies Participating In the Carbon Efficient Index (Ico2) - Patrícia Lacerda De Carvalho and Aldo Leonardo Cunha CalladoPerformance of Sustainability and Negotiability Indexes In the Brazilian Stock Market - Patrícia Lacerda De Carvalho and Orleans Silva MartinsDo Environmental Disasters Impact on the Volume of Socio-Environmental Investment and Disclosure of Brazilian Companies? - José Venâncio Ferreira Neto, Sônia Maria Da Silva, Gomes, Adriano Leal Bruni and José Maria Dias FilhoIndex

Contributed by researchers from Brazil and elsewhere, the five essays in this volume are drawn from the 2015 CSEAR (Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research) conference in Bahia, Brazil, and detail research in Brazilian social and environmental accounting. After a review of 325 articles that discusses the hegemony of business case thinking and the dominance of the economic imperative in Brazilian social and environmental accounting research, they examine the degree of adherence to the Global Reporting Initiative by organizations from around the world, as well as the quality of corporate social responsibility reports using institutional and legitimacy theoretical frameworks; comparison of the financial stock performance of Brazilian companies that participate in the Carbon Efficient Index with those that participate in market-wide indices of the São Paulo Stock Exchange; the stock returns of the sustainability index member companies and the returns of companies not in these indices; and the impact of environmental disasters on the volume of disclosure and investments of Brazilian companies from 1997 to 2012.