Editor's Comments: Publishing Theory
这篇编辑评论分享了对理论发表过程的观察,指出好的理论来自对现实问题的兴趣而非文献空白,并给作者提出了一些建议。
This article presents an editorial expressing some observations on the theory publishing process in the hope of reducing the mystery surrounding theory development and publication. Theory papers succeed if they offer important and original ideas. The route to good theory leads not through gaps in the literature but through an engagement with problems in the world that you find personally interesting. The author offers some cautions for writers.