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Overview

Brendan O'Dwyer is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Administration, and Finance.

Their work covers several main topics including Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Management and Organizational Studies, Accounting and Organizational Management, Public Policy and Administration Research, Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds, Environmental Sustainability in Business, and the Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering.

O'Dwyer has published extensively in multiple academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • Accounting Organizations and Society
  • European Accounting Review
  • Critical Perspectives on Accounting
  • Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory

Some of their recent papers are as follows:

  • Shifting the focus of sustainability accounting from impacts to risks and dependencies: researching the transformative potential of TCFD reporting, 2020, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • From institutional integration to institutional demise: The disintegration of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), 2024, Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Their coauthors include Conor Clune, Jeffrey Unerman, Chris Humphrey, N. Rowbottom, and Hans Bonde Christensen. Collaboration with Conor Clune is notable, with multiple coauthored papers.

O'Dwyer's research often addresses the intersection of accounting practices and social and environmental accountability within organizational and institutional frameworks. They explore topics such as sustainability accounting risks, institutional dynamics, and the embedding of accountability in investment fields.

Best Publications

  • Assurance Statement Practice in Environmental, Social and Sustainability Reporting: A Critical Evaluation

    Brendan O'Dwyer;David L. Owen

  • Managerial perceptions of corporate social disclosure: An Irish story

    Brendan O’Dwyer

  • Seeking legitimacy for new assurance forms: The case of assurance on sustainability reporting

    Brendan O’Dwyer;David Owen;Jeffrey Unerman

  • Conceptions of corporate social responsibility: the nature of managerial capture

    Brendan O’Dwyer

  • The paradox of greater NGO accountability:A case study of Amnesty Ireland

    Brendan O’Dwyer;Jeffrey Unerman

  • The case of sustainability assurance: constructing a new assurance service

    Brendan O’Dwyer

  • Theorising accountability for NGO advocacy

    Jeffrey Unerman;Brendan O'Dwyer

  • Sustainability Accounting and Accountability

    Jan Bebbington;Jeffrey Unerman;Brendan O'Dwyer

  • User needs in sustainability reporting: Perspectives of stakeholders in Ireland

    Brendan O'Dwyer;Jeffrey Unerman;Elaine Hession

  • The construction of a social account: a case study in an overseas aid agency

    Brendan O'Dwyer

  • From functional to social accountability:Transforming the accountability relationship between funders and non-governmental development organisations

    Brendan O'Dwyer;Jeffrey Unerman

  • Motivating socially responsive decision making: the operation of management controls in a socially responsive organisation

    Gweneth Norris;Brendan O'Dwyer

  • Qualitative Data Analysis: Illuminating a Process for Transforming a ‘Messy’ but ‘Attractive’ ‘Nuisance’

    Brendan O'Dwyer

  • On James Bond and the importance of NGO accountability

    Jeffrey Unerman;Brendan O'Dwyer

  • Perceptions on the emergence and future development of corporate social disclosure in Ireland: Engaging the voices of non-governmental organisations

    Brendan O'Dwyer;Jeffrey Unerman;John Bradley

  • Stakeholder perspectives on a financial sector legitimation process: the case of NGOs and the Equator Principles

    Niamh O'Sullivan;Brendan O'Dwyer

  • Seeking Stakeholder-Centric Sustainability Assurance

    Brendan O'Dwyer;David Owen

  • Enhancing the role of accountability in promoting the rights of beneficiaries of development NGOs

    Brendan O'Dwyer;Jeffrey Unerman

  • Ethical Codes of Conduct in Irish Companies: A Survey of Code Content and Enforcement Procedures

    Brendan O'Dwyer;Grainne Madden

  • The co-construction of NGO accountability: Aligning imposed and felt accountability in NGO-funder accountability relationships

    Brendan O'Dwyer;Roel Boomsma

  • Shifting the focus of sustainability accounting from impacts to risks and dependencies: researching the transformative potential of TCFD reporting

    Brendan O'Dwyer;Jeffrey Unerman

  • Seeking Legitimacy for New Assurance Forms: The Case of Assurance on Sustainability Reporting

    Brendan O'Dwyer;David Owen;Jeffrey Uneman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Unerman
Jeffrey Unerman Royal Holloway University of London
Jan Bebbington
Jan Bebbington University of St Andrews
Christopher Humphrey
Christopher Humphrey University of Manchester
Yves Gendron
Yves Gendron Université Laval

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