The renaming of Accounting Business and Financial History to Accounting History Review in 2011 could, at face value, be taken as a narrowing of the journal’s focus toward accounting history. Rather than a restriction in focus, the editor saw it as an opportunity to encourage a connection between accounting history ‘with the intellectual interests of other disciplines and research domains’ (McWatters 2014, 1). It is this process of making connections across disciplines that we have endeavoured to encourage in this special issue. Both students and scholars of business face the task of recording, understanding, and explaining a rapidly changing world. We see the potential to draw upon perspectives and approaches beyond single disciplines to answer many research questions generated by business scholars. As McWatters (2017, 219) notes:

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特刊：跨学科历史研究

2011 年将《会计业务和财务历史》更名为《会计历史评论》，从表面上看，可以将其视为该期刊对会计历史的关注范围的缩小。编辑将其视为鼓励会计史“与其他学科和研究领域的知识兴趣”之间建立联系的机会，而不是对重点的限制（McWatters 2014, 1）。我们在本期特刊中努力鼓励的正是这种建立跨学科联系的过程。商界的学生和学者都面临着记录、理解和解释瞬息万变的世界的任务。我们看到了利用超越单一学科的观点和方法来回答商业学者提出的许多研究问题的潜力。正如 McWatters (2017, 219) 所指出的：