CSEAR Italy is one of the Nation-based satellites of CSEAR, the Centre for Social and Environmental Research that is currently based in St. Andrews (Scotland).

The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) is an international scholar network whose aim is to enhance, promote and disseminate research and knowledge in the field of social and environmental accounting and reporting as a means to envisage and build a more sustainable society and economy.

The CSEAR Italian Office was formally set up in January 2014 as a culmination of dialogues and initiatives, which had been organized over the past years and since the first CSEAR Italian Conference held in the University of Bergamo in 2006. In particular, it was during the IV Italian CSEAR Conference held in Levico Terme (Trento-Italy), when the 'historical' group of the Italian CSEAR members came together to talk about current problems and future perspectives of research in social and environmental accounting and reporting in the Italian context