Calling for Humanistic Scholarship in China
这篇社论讨论了人文学术研究（以改善人类福祉为目标的学术）对商业研究尤其是中国管理研究的重要性，强调学术应服务于社会。
Scholarship refers to the formal and serious study of subjects such as medicine, physics, biology, history, philosophy, and business. Good scholarship demands that researchers apply rigorous scientific methods to find valid knowledge that can improve life, both human and nonhuman. Hence, scholarship and science share the common ideal of contributing to the development of a better society and a better world. Albert Einstein said, 'Concern for making life better for ordinary humans must be the chief objective of science' (Einstein qtd. in Isaacson, 2008: 374). Similarly, Oscar Handlin, one of the greatest contemporary historians, argued 'Scholarship has to prove its worth not on its own terms, but by its service to the nation and to the world' (Handlin qtd. in Boyer, 1996: 17). Clearly, scholarship, science, and the idea of 'humanism' are connected. In this editorial, we discuss the importance of humanistic scholarship -scholarship for the purpose of improving human welfare by focusing on the social outcomes of organizations -for business research and particularly for Chinese management research.