Educating Accountants with a Sustainability-Oriented Professional Identity in Central and Eastern Europe
This paper has investigated the role that universities may play in shaping a sustainabilityoriented professional identity of accountants, which represents an essential contribution of the paper. A sample of 713 answers collected via an online questionnaire-based survey from prospective accountants...
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| author | Cătălin-Nicolae Albu Çağnur Balsari Meliha Bašić Zorica Bozhinovska Lazarevska Sandra Damijan Nikolina Dečman Ivan Dionisijev Olga Grzybek Gina Raluca Gușe Ana Lalević Filipović Mustafa Oğuz Ivana Perica Metka Tekavcic Elena Turuianu Savka Vuckovic Milutinovic |
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| description | This paper has investigated the role that universities may play in shaping a sustainabilityoriented professional identity of accountants, which represents an essential contribution of
the paper. A sample of 713 answers collected via an online questionnaire-based survey from
prospective accountants in nine countries in Central and Eastern Europe was statistically
analysed. This geographical area is largely ignored in the literature. By applying principal
component analysis and cluster analysis, the paper documented that universities play a
significant role in raising the interest of future accountants in sustainability matters, alongside
other stakeholders and the societal and institutional factors. Exposure to sustainability-related
activities also helps shape this new identity of future accountants, in conjunction with other
education enablers, which should encourage universities to open their curriculum to such
matters. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-58c9b5e529e64dce988d13d0cede13ea2025-08-20T03:19:00ZengEditura ASEAmfiteatru Economic1582-91462247-91042025-08-012770830 84810.24818/EA/2025/70/830Educating Accountants with a Sustainability-Oriented Professional Identity in Central and Eastern Europe Cătălin-Nicolae Albu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3282-8414Çağnur Balsari1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6320-0080Meliha Bašić2https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4021-8223Zorica Bozhinovska Lazarevska3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9074-0365Sandra Damijan4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1846-0294Nikolina Dečman5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5167-4070Ivan Dionisijev6https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5986-3343Olga Grzybek7https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0766-784XGina Raluca Gușe8https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5424-3364Ana Lalević Filipović9https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8374-8238Mustafa Oğuz10https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-4000Ivana Perica 11https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8395-5096Metka Tekavcic12https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0821-2878Elena Turuianu 13https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8483-478XSavka Vuckovic Milutinovic14https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1065-0683The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, RomaniaDokuz Eylul University, TurkeyUniversity of Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaSs. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North MacedoniaUniversity of Ljubljana, SloveniaUniversity of Zagreb, CroatiaSs. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North MacedoniaUniversity of Economics in Katowice, PolandBucharest University of Economic Studies, RomaniaUniversity of Montenegro, MontenegroBalıkesir University, TurkeyUniversity of Split, CroatiaUniversity of Ljubljana, SloveniaBucharest University of Economic Studies, RomaniaUniversity of Belgrade, SerbiaThis paper has investigated the role that universities may play in shaping a sustainabilityoriented professional identity of accountants, which represents an essential contribution of the paper. A sample of 713 answers collected via an online questionnaire-based survey from prospective accountants in nine countries in Central and Eastern Europe was statistically analysed. This geographical area is largely ignored in the literature. By applying principal component analysis and cluster analysis, the paper documented that universities play a significant role in raising the interest of future accountants in sustainability matters, alongside other stakeholders and the societal and institutional factors. Exposure to sustainability-related activities also helps shape this new identity of future accountants, in conjunction with other education enablers, which should encourage universities to open their curriculum to such matters. https://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_3446.pdfsustainabilityaccounting professionprofessional identityuniversitiescentral and eastern europe |
| spellingShingle | Cătălin-Nicolae Albu Çağnur Balsari Meliha Bašić Zorica Bozhinovska Lazarevska Sandra Damijan Nikolina Dečman Ivan Dionisijev Olga Grzybek Gina Raluca Gușe Ana Lalević Filipović Mustafa Oğuz Ivana Perica Metka Tekavcic Elena Turuianu Savka Vuckovic Milutinovic Educating Accountants with a Sustainability-Oriented Professional Identity in Central and Eastern Europe Amfiteatru Economic sustainability accounting profession professional identity universities central and eastern europe |
| title | Educating Accountants with a Sustainability-Oriented Professional Identity in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_full | Educating Accountants with a Sustainability-Oriented Professional Identity in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_fullStr | Educating Accountants with a Sustainability-Oriented Professional Identity in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educating Accountants with a Sustainability-Oriented Professional Identity in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_short | Educating Accountants with a Sustainability-Oriented Professional Identity in Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_sort | educating accountants with a sustainability oriented professional identity in central and eastern europe |
| topic | sustainability accounting profession professional identity universities central and eastern europe |
| url | https://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_3446.pdf |
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