How Not to Turn the Grand Challenges Literature Into a Tower of Babel?
指出重大挑战文献涵盖多种不相关现象,但可能重复造轮子、忽视渐进进展和已有研究。为避免此问题,学者需连接或区分相似/不同议题,借鉴过去研究,并通过理论检验创造可推广性。
The Grand Challenges literature brings under its umbrella a wide variety of disjointed phenomena but runs the risk of reinventing the wheel as well as overlooking incremental progress and past work. To avert this, scholars need to (dis)connect (dis)similar issues, build on past research on these issues, and create opportunities for generalizability through theoretical examinations.