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49
Citations
15613
World Ranking
1023
National Ranking
154

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Jan Bebbington is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on the intersections of sustainability and organizational practices.

Bebbington has contributed extensively to the subfields of Strategy and Management, Marketing, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Management Information Systems. Their work addresses multiple topics including Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Coastal and Marine Management, Accounting and Organizational Management, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Municipal Solid Waste Management, and Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies.

Their recent publications comprise:

  • Advancing research into accounting and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2020, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • The pre-history of sustainability reporting: a constructivist reading, 2021, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • Transnational Corporations, Biosphere Stewardship, and Sustainable Futures, 2022, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Hold big business to task on ecosystem restoration, 2023, Science
  • Evolving Perspectives of Stewardship in the Seafood Industry, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science

Bebbington frequently publishes in venues such as Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, International Journal of Sustainable Development, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Science, and European Accounting Review.

Their collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Carlos Larrínaga, Robert Blasiak, Giovanna Michelon, Carl Folke, and Henrik Österblom. These professional partnerships contribute to the multidisciplinary nature of their research.

Recognition for their contributions includes being named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Accounting for the Environment

    Rob Gray;Jan Bebbington;Martin Houldin

  • Corporate social reporting and reputation risk management

    Jan Bebbington;Carlos Larrinaga;Jose M. Moneva

  • Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An enabling role for accounting research

    Jan Bebbington;Jeffrey Unerman

  • An account of sustainability: Failure, success and a reconceptualization

    Jan Bebbington;Rob Gray

  • NGOs, civil society and accountability: making the people accountable to capital

    Rob Gray;Jan Bebbington;David Collison

  • Accounting and sustainable development: An exploration

    Jan Bebbington;Carlos Larrinaga

  • Sustainable development: a review of the international development, business and accounting literature

    Jan Bebbington

  • Environmental accounting, managerialism and sustainability: Is the planet safe in the hands of business and accounting?

    Rob Gray;Jan Bebbington

  • Accounting technologies and sustainability assessment models

    Jan Bebbington;Judy Brown;Bob Frame

  • Carbon Trading: Accounting and Reporting Issues

    Jan Bebbington;Carlos Larrinaga-González

  • Theorizing engagement: the potential of a critical dialogic approach

    Jan Bebbington;Judy Brown;Bob Frame;Ian Hume Thomson

  • Social and environmental reporting in the UK: a pedagogic evaluation

    Ian Hume Thomson;Jan Bebbington

  • Accounting change or institutional appropriation?—A case study of the implementation of environmental accounting

    Carlos Larrinaga-Gonzalez;Jan Bebbington

  • The Greening of Enterprise: An Exploration of the (NON) Role of Environmental Accounting and Environmental Accountants in Organizational Change

    Rob Gray;Diane Walters;Jan Bebbington;Ian Thompson

  • Sustainability Accounting and Accountability

    Jan Bebbington;Jeffrey Unerman;Brendan O'Dwyer

  • Initiating sustainable development reporting: evidence from New Zealand

    Jan Bebbington;Colin Higgins;Bob Frame

  • Engagement, education and sustainability: A review essay on environmental accounting

    Jan Bebbington

  • Accountants' Attitudes and Environmentally-sensitive Accounting

    Jan Bebbington;Rob Gray;Ian Thomson;Diane Walters

  • The production of normativity: A comparison of reporting regimes in Spain and the UK

    Jan Bebbington;Elizabeth A. Kirk;Carlos Larrinaga

  • Green Accounting: Cosmetic Irrelevance or Radical Agenda for Change?

    David Owen;Rob Gray;Jan Bebbington

  • Full cost accounting: an agenda for action

    Jan Bebbington;Rob Gray;Chris Hibbitt;Elizabeth Kirk

  • Social and Environmental Reporting in the UK: A Pedagogic Evaluation

    Jan Bebbington;Ian Thomson

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Gray
Rob Gray University of East Anglia
Jeffrey Unerman
Jeffrey Unerman Royal Holloway University of London
Brendan O'Dwyer
Brendan O'Dwyer University of Manchester
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University
Bert Scholtens
Bert Scholtens University of Groningen
Henrik Österblom
Henrik Österblom Stockholm University
David G. Reid
David G. Reid Memorial University of Newfoundland
Andy Gouldson
Andy Gouldson University of Leeds
Richard Laughlin
Richard Laughlin King's College London

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