The Reg Mathews Memorial Prize is an annual award for the paper considered to have made the most significant contribution towards the social and environmental accounting literature published in Social and Environmental Accountability Journal (SEAJ). The paper is selected by the Editorial Board of SEAJ and is named in memory of Professor Reg Mathews, a leading figure in the development of social and environmental accounting.

This year, SEAJ is pleased to announce both a winner’s prize and a high commendation, acknowledging the quality of articles published in 2023.
Madlen Sobkowiak, along with her co-authors Juliette Senn and Hendrik Vollmer, has been awarded the winner’s prize for their paper titled “Rethinking Planetary Boundaries: Accounting for Ecological Limits.” It’s truly exciting to witness a young team of scholars making bold contributions to the literature on social and environmental accounting! Madlen is Associate Professor of Accounting at EDHEC Business School in France, Juliette is Assistant Professor at Montpellier Business School, while Hendrik is Reader of Accounting at Warwick Business School.

The paper is free to download from the journal website here: https://doi.org/10.1080/0969160X.2023.2283019. Once again, congratulations to Raeni, Ian, and Ann-Christine from everyone here on the SEAJ editorial team!

We are also delighted to announce that the paper “The Motivations and Practices of Impact Assessment in Socially Responsible Investing: The French Case and its Implications for the Accounting and Impact Investing Communities” by Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Pierre Chollet, Patricia Crifo and Nicolas Mottis has received a high commendation.

The paper is free to download from the journal website here: https://doi.org/10.1080/0969160X.2022.2032239. Congratulations to Diane-Laure and her team from everyone on the SEAJ editorial team.