Rate My Professor Hendrik Vollmer

Vollmer's research focuses on accounting as a social practice that permeates organizations, businesses, governments, professions, industries, communities, and global institutions. He explores the dynamics of accounting change under disruptive conditions and accounting's capacity to tackle ecological issues, including environmental impact, degradation, and renewal. His scholarship bridges accounting, social theory, valuation, accountability, and sustainability. Notable publications include the edited volume Handbook of Accounting in Society (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024), which features contributions on encountering accounting across societal domains; Accounting and the shifting spheres: the economic, the public, the planet in Accounting, Organizations and Society (2024); Public value and the planet: accounting in ecological reconstitution in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (2021); and The sociology of disruption, disaster and social change: Punctuated cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Earlier works such as How to do more with numbers: Elementary stakes, framing, keying, and the three-dimensional character of numerical signs (2007) and Tracking the numbers: Across accounting and finance, organizations and markets (2009, with Mennicken and Preda) have garnered significant citations. Vollmer shapes the field through editorial contributions as Associate Editor of European Accounting Review and board member for Accounting, Organizations and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, and Zeitschrift für Soziologie. He is a member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research and holds Senior Fellow status with the Higher Education Academy.