Contabilidad de Gestión Ambiental: avances conceptuales para construir una contabilidad para la sustentabilidad
Environmental Management Accounting: conceptual advances to build accounting for sustainability
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Este artículo tiene por objeto analizar las perspectivas conceptuales con las que ha sido abordada la categoría de Contabilidad de Gestión Ambiental (CGA) en las revistas especializadas de las bases de datos Scopus y Web of Science. Metodológicamente el artículo tiene un enfoque cualitativo que se apoya en una Revisión Sistemática de la Literatura (RSL) de 283 documentos del área temática publicados en 156 revistas científicas especializadas, con una focalización temporal entre 2000-2023. Como resultados y contribuciones se presentan datos bibliométricos de los documentos, sus temáticas asociadas y se realiza un análisis cualitativo de las perspectivas conceptuales que subyacen a las categorías estudiadas para construir una contabilidad para la sustentabilidad. Como hallazgo se identificó que la CGA es una temática emergente en un enfoque combinado de datos financieros, de costos y de gestión para aumentar la eficiencia organizacional, reducir el impacto y los costos ambientales. Conceptualmente la mayoría de los documentos revisados utilizan los conceptos seminales sin discutir su esencia e impactos, evidenciando disputas casuísticas y generando una tendencia utilitarista del campo.
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