Dr Hendrik Vollmer
Associate Professor of Accounting
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 2020-2021
Accounting and Finance
- IB98Y0: Dissertation
- IB9FQ0: Financial Accounting: Theory and Context
Undergraduate
- 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. (2020) "Editorial : Themed section on accounting and valuation studies", Accounting, Organizations and Society, 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
Books
- Hendrik Vollmer (2013) "The sociology of disruption, disaster and social change : punctuated cooperation", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 9781139424622
- Mennicken, A. and Vollmer, H. (2007) "Zahlenwerk : Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft ", VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. 9783531904498
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