Craig Deegan

TL;DR: A review of the social and environmental accounting and institutional literature across a number of decades to reveal insights about the development and use of legitimacy theory as a basis to explain organizational reporting practices is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: A review of the submissions to a 2005/06 Australian Government Inquiry into Corporate Social Responsibility showed that the business community overwhelming favour an anti-regulation approach whereby corporations should be left with the flexibility to determine their social responsibilities and associated accountabilities and enlightened self-interest should be retained as the guiding mechanism for social responsibility initiatives as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and explain, using a combination of interviews and content analysis, the social and environmental reporting practices of a major garment export organisation within a developing country.

TL;DR: This article examined how the corporate social and environmental disclosure practices of a sample of gambling companies operating within Australia appears to change around the time of three specific interrelated Australian government initiatives; the Productivity Commission, 1999, Australia's Gambling Industries, Report No. 10, the subsequent establishment of the Ministerial Council on Gambling and the MCG-initiated National Framework on Problem Gambling.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of environmental collaborations in the Australian building and construction industry was conducted and the results indicated that corporate managers seek to collaborate with environmental groups as a result of pressures exerted by particular stakeholder groups, particularly government, and by the desire to be aligned with an organisation that has "green credentials" which is valuable in enhancing the reputation and legitimacy of the company and the related building project.