Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management: Volume 21 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Special issue on accounting for tacit coordination … and beyond

Thomas Ahrens, Lukas Goretzki

Accounting theory, ethnography, and the silence of the social

Hendrik Vollmer

This paper aims to offer a reflection on the alliance between accounting theory and social research in general, focussing on the conjunction of accounting theory and ethnography…

Tacit coordination as a background practice to accounting practices – reflections on Vollmer’s case for a sociological super-theory of accounting

Thomas Ahrens

The purpose of this paper is primarily methodological. This paper aims to complement the novel sociological argument of Hendrik Vollmer’s paper on tacit coordination of accounting…

Whereof one cannot speak … a comment on Vollmer (2019)

Christian Huber

The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual reflection based on the author’s personal research experience, reading of the literature and contact with the academic…

How do accounts pass? A discussion of Vollmer’s “Accounting for tacit coordination”

Tommaso Palermo

Building on the notes prepared for a roundtable organized by qualitative research in accounting & management (QRAM) about the paper titled “Accounting for tacit coordination: The…