The openESEA Modelling Language for Ethical, Social and Environmental Accounting: Technical Report

TL;DR

A textual grammar for specifying ESEA methods is presented and with the grammar ESEA models can be created, which can be interpreted by the open-source, model-driven tool, called openESEA.

Abstract

Over the years ethical, social and environmental accounting (ESEA) has become a common practice among responsible organisations. ESEA entails assessing and reporting organisations" performance on environmental, social and governance topics. In this report, we present a textual grammar for specifying ESEA methods. With the grammar ESEA models can be created. Such models can be interpreted by our open-source, model-driven tool, called openESEA. The report presents the metamodel of the grammar, the grammar itself, and explanations of each grammar primitive.

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• Figure 1: The openESEA metamodel V4
• Figure 2: An example of a tree of topics