8th French Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting – Standardization and Sustainability Transition ( 2-3 June 2025)

HOST: CSEAR France Location: Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT) de Paris-Rives de Seine Faculté Sociétés & Humanités, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

The “CSEAR France” congress is hosted biennially since 2011 in various French cities. The 8th CSEAR France Conference will be held at the IUT de Paris-Rives de Seine, Faculté Sociétés et Humanités, Paris Cité University, on June 2-3, 2025. This new event will give participants the opportunity to present their research projects, ranging from discussions of preliminary results to full papers. Submissions are accepted in both French and English.

For this 8^th edition of CSEAR France, the Scientific Committee is looking for papers on the theme: “Standardization and Sustainability Transition”. Sustainability is at the heart of current debates on economic, social and environmental development. While the evaluation of sustainable practices has been widely explored, standardization as a means of locking in sustainable development has received less attention (Boutaud, 2005). Yet in recent years, and particularly since the adoption of the Paris Agreement (2015) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainability standardization has accelerated in many sectors, particularly in the field of sustainability accounting (Bebbington and Larrinaga, 2014; Gray, 2010).

This conference invites researchers to debate issues related to the theme, analyse the various transition models underway at different scales, and explore the role of standardization, particularly accounting standardization, in either accelerating or slowing the transition to sustainability.

Doctoral workshop

As part of the 8th CSEAR France conference, a doctoral workshop is organized and open to all PhD students, whatever their PhD thesis progress. Proposals must take the form of a 10-page document presenting the thesis project, including:

• The research question
• A literature review
• The proposed methodology (if applicable)
• Any initial results

Organizing committee

• Amel Ben Rhouma (Paris Cité University)
• Carine Boiteau (Paris Cité University)
• Charles H. Cho (Schulich School of Business, Université York)
• Jonathan Maurice (Toulouse School of Management)

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