...Sarah George Lauwo; John De-Clerk Azure; Trevor Hopper Purpose This paper examines the accountability and governance mechanisms and the challenges in a multi-stakeholder partnership seeking to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a developing country (DC), namely Tanzania...

... governments can create value for society and the economy through their approach to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach An initial conceptual framework was developed from literature situated at the intersection of accountability, public policy and sustainability...

...Jan Bebbington; Jeffrey Unerman Purpose This paper introduces a special section devoted to accounting scholarship that addresses the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and has three purposes. First, to explore the puzzle of a relative absence of accounting-related scholarship...

... to investigate the inclusion of climate change as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). It analyses more than 100 documents and texts, tracking the statement forms that crystallise prevailing truth claims across the development of climate and SDG metagovernance. Findings We show how the truth claims now...

...Jan Bebbington; Jeffrey Unerman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish and advance the role of academic accounting in the pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are regarded as the most salient point of departure for understanding and achieving...