Hendrik Vollmer - Associate Professor of Accounting | Staff Directory

Research Interests

I am interested in understanding accounting as a social practice pervasive across organisations, businesses and governments, public and private settings, professions and industries, local communities as well as global discourses and institutions. I am particularly keen on investigating dynamics of accounting change under disruptive conditions and the potential of accounting to address ecological issues such as environmental impact, degradation, and renewal.

Teaching in 2021-2022

Accounting and Finance

IB9FQ0: Financial Accounting: Theory and Context

Undergraduate

IB3M80: Accounting for Sustainability, People, Planet
IB2300: Accounting in Context
IB2560: UPP Accounting and Finance in Context

Accounting Group

Email: Hendrik.Vollmer@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 28229 / Room: 1.117

Biography

I joined WBS in 2020 from the University of Leicester, where I had worked since 2015 and for three years as Head of the Accounting Division at the School of Business. Prior to coming to the UK, I had worked for sixteen years at Bielefeld University in Germany, where I edited Zeitschrift für Soziologie, one of the leading German-language peer-review journals in sociology, from 2008 to 2015. I am member of the editorial board of Zeitschrift für Soziologie and of the journal Accounting, Organizations and Society, a member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR), and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Publications

Journal Articles

Hendrik Vollmer (2020) "Public value and the planet : accounting in ecological reconstitution", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
Hendrik Vollmer (2019) "Accounting for tacit coordination : the passing of accounts and the broader case for accounting theory", Accounting, Organizations and Society, 73, 15-34
Hendrik Vollmer (2013) "What kind of game is everyday interaction?", Rationality and Society, 25, 3, 370-404
Nathaus, K. and Vollmer, H. (2010) "Moving inter disciplines. What kind of cooperation are interdisciplinary historians and sociologists aiming for?", InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, 1, 1, 64-93
Vollmer, H., Mennicken, A. and Preda, A. (2009) "Tracking the numbers : across accounting and finance, organizations and markets", Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34, 5, 619-637
Hendrik Vollmer (2009) "Management accounting as normal social science", Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34, 1, 141-150
Hendrik Vollmer (2008) "Zahlenspiele und Regierungsphantasien", WestEnd-Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, 5, 102-115
Hendrik Vollmer (2007) "How to do more with numbers : elementary stakes, framing, keying, and the three-dimensional character of numerical signs", Accounting, Organizations and Society, 32, 6, 577-600
Hendrik Vollmer (2003) "Bookkeeping, accounting, calculative practice : the sociological suspense of calculation", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 14, 3, 353-381
Hendrik Vollmer (2003) "Grundthesen und Forschungsperspektiven einer Soziologie des Rechnens", Sociologia Internationalis, 41, 1, 1-23
Hendrik Vollmer (2002) "Ansprüche und Wirklichkeiten des Verwaltens im Reformdiskurs der neunziger Jahre. Die diskursive Ordnung von Reformkommunikation", Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 31, 1, 44-65
Hendrik Vollmer (1997) "Die Frage nach den Akteuren", Sociologia Internationalis, 35, 169-193
Hendrik Vollmer (1996) "Akzeptanzbeschaffung : Verfahren und Verhandlungen", Zeitschrift fur Soziologie, 25, 2, 147-164
Hendrik Vollmer (1996) "Die Institutionalisierung lernender Organisationen : vom Neoinstitutionalismus zur wissenssoziologischen Aufarbeitung der Organisationsforschung", Soziale Welt, 47, 3, 315-343

Journal Item

Millo, Y., Power, M., Robson, K. and Vollmer, H. (2021) "Editorial : Themed section on accounting and valuation studies", Accounting, Organizations and Society, 91, 101223

Book Review

Hendrik Vollmer (2021) "Review of What comes after entanglement? Activism, anthropocentrism, and an ethics of exclusion by Giraud, E. H.", Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 1-3

Book Items

Hendrik Vollmer (2016) "The resilience of punctuated cooperation", 177-196, Springer VS, Wiesbaden,
Kette, S. and Vollmer, H. (2015) "Normalization and its discontents : organizational learning from disaster", Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
Hendrik Vollmer (2015) "Schweigsame soziale Prozesse, historische Ereignisse, flüchtige Teilnehmer und sozialer Wandel", 303-317, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Hendrik Vollmer (2014) "Stress und soziale Differenzierung", 408-424, Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
Hendrik Vollmer (2013) "Fantastische Zahlen", 27-45, Springer VS, Wiesbaden
Hendrik Vollmer (2012) "Signaturen der Finanzialisierung. Von Finanzmärkten zu Organisationen, zu sozialen Situationen und (von dort) zu allem anderen", transcript, Bielefeld
Hendrik Vollmer (2010) "Kohäsion und Desintegration militärischer Einheiten", 163-192, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften,
Mennicken, A. and Vollmer, H. (2007) "Einleitung : Fundstellen von Zahlenforschung", 9-17, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden
Hendrik Vollmer (2007) "How financial numbers are symptomatic", Campus Verlag, Frankfurt ; New York