Special issue: interdisciplinary historical studies

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: