Bedanand Upadhaya is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Essex Business School, University of Essex. His research interests include corporate social responsibility/sustainability, climate change, organisational culture, management control systems and developing/emerging countries. Bedanand has presented his research papers in reputed national and international research conferences and published his research papers in leading international peer-reviewed academic journals, including the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Journal of Business Research, Business, Strategy and the Environment, and Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management. Bedanand is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, and a member of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA). During his Ph.D., Bedanand received the ‘Higher Degree Research Academic Research Excellence Award’ from the Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University, Australia. As a unit coordinator, lecturer and tutor, Bedanand has taught a wide range of courses/modules, including accounting (Management and Financial Accounting, Accounting Theory and Research in Accounting Practice), business and management (International Business and Global Business Strategy) units in the higher education sector of Australia. Prior to joining academia, Bedanand worked in a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company for over a decade.