...Alessandro Lai; Giulia Leoni; Riccardo Stacchezzini Purpose This paper investigates the multivocal nature of accountability in the context of grand challenges (GCs) by examining how diverse perspectives from science and politics combined and shaped the justifications provided by the Italian...

...Laura Mazzola; Massimo Contrafatto; John Ferguson Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of accounting inscriptions in the process of identifying a grand challenge, i.e. defining, re-presenting and constructing a grand challenge as a problem to be addressed. More specifically...

...Ruth Dimes; Fabrizio Granà; Cristiano Busco; Charl de Villiers Purpose This paper addresses the urgent need for new approaches and systems of accountability to tackle grand challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, and inequalities. It explores the role of accounting and accountability...

... a reflective thematic analysis of the theoretical and practical insights collected from the contributions to the first volume of the AAAJ special issue on “The impact of accounting and accountability in identifying and mitigating social and environmental grand challenges”. Further, this research develops...

...Eileen Z. Taylor; Paul F. Williams Purpose To argue current calls to address grand challenges like income inequality are unlikely to succeed until the academy acknowledges how accounting is constitutive of these problems. We demonstrate how accounting is part of the problem because of its...

...Matthew Scobie; Ellie Norris; Holly Willson Purpose This study explores the concept of intergenerational accountability to address the grand challenge of a just transition. Intergenerational accountability extends the notion of accountability for the other to include future generations in ways...