Jia Wang’s recent call for increased attention to scholarship that spans disciplinary boundaries (Wang, 2019) is a timely and important reminder in light of the challenges and opportunities for our field in the current economic, technological, social, and intellectual landscape. Increased dialogue, however, should also occur in our own domain where scholars typically push forward their own areas of interest and not often engage in substance with each other. The recent publication of two major articles by senior human resource development (HRD) scholars in this journal provides such an opportunity. Both are significant pieces of research by keen observers of our field, each with more than 25 years of scholarly excellence in HRD and teaching at leading Big Ten universities. The key authors and I were brethren-in-arms during our graduate program at the University of Minnesota, both are close colleagues and friends, and I have a deep sense of respect for their careers and scholarship. The following is intended as a discussion and extension: a way of connecting two exemplary pieces of writing that inform each other in interesting ways and, taken together, offer important directions for our field.

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更好的理论会帮助Natasha吗？HRDR最近的两篇文章阐述了我们领域的研究现状

考虑到当前经济，技术，社会和知识领域对我们领域的挑战和机遇，贾旺最近呼吁越来越重视跨学科的学术研究（Wang，2019），这是一个及时而重要的提醒。但是，在我们自己的领域中也应该发生更多的对话，在这些领域中，学者通常会推动自己感兴趣的领域，而不是经常相互交流。高级人力资源开发（HRD）学者最近在该期刊上发表了两篇主要文章，提供了这样的机会。两者都是本领域敏锐观察者的重要研究成果，每个人在HRD方面都拥有超过25年的学术卓越成就，并在领先的十大大学中任教大学。在明尼苏达大学（University of Minnesota）研究生课程期间，我的主要作者和我是臂膀兄弟，都是亲密的同事和朋友，并且我对他们的职业和奖学金深感尊重。以下内容旨在作为讨论和扩展：连接两种示例性作品的一种方式，它们以有趣的方式相互告知，并共同为我们的领域提供了重要的指导。