We started writing this a few days after Alex returned from ethnographic fieldwork in Hong Kong. This research trip required being on the road for two months, first doing a washout period in Bucharest, followed by quarantine in Hong Kong, then finally fieldwork itself. This was not Alex's first...

This introductory essay reviews recent advances in the emergent field of social studies of finance (SSF) and, subsequently, sets out to illustrate how a closer engagement with SSF might benefit research interests in accounting and vice versa. Finally, it provides a sketch of how mutual...