How can grand challenge‐related issues be studied while comprehensively addressing contemporary needs? The literature on grand challenges has been growing, with an abundance of phenomena on which research is undertaken in a piecemeal fashion, without sufficiently offering integrated insights. In this debate essay, we challenge the proposal offered in Seelos, C., Mair, J. & Traeger, C. (2023) The future of grand challenges research: retiring a hopeful concept and endorsing research principles, International Journal of Management Reviews, 25(2), 251–269 on retiring the grand challenge concept. Instead, we advocate for revitalizing, not retiring, so that grand challenges research can be adapted with the ultimate human purpose of achieving wellbeing. We propose that the solution lies in taking a telo‐centric approach to navigate the intersections between various grand challenge issues, offering a novel lens to delve into the ultimate end of human endeavours and to ensure the continued relevance of the grant challenge concept. We exemplify the application of this telo‐centric approach through the prism of digital wellbeing, demonstrating how it can pave the way for innovative theoretical frameworks, rigorous empirical investigations and practical developments. We conclude by forwarding future directions for research, practice and policy.

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以远程为中心的方法重新思考重大挑战：以数字福祉为例


如何在全面解决当代需求的同时研究重大挑战相关问题？关于重大挑战的文献一直在增长，对大量现象的研究都是零散的，没有充分提供综合的见解。在这篇辩论文章中，我们对 Seelos, C.、Mair, J. 和 Traeger, C. (2023) 重大挑战研究的未来：退休一个充满希望的概念并认可研究原则中提出的提案提出质疑，国际管理评论杂志, 25(2), 251–269 关于废除大挑战概念。相反，我们提倡振兴，而不是退休，以便重大挑战研究能够适应实现福祉的人类最终目标。我们建议解决方案在于采取特洛以-为中心的方法来引导各种重大挑战问题之间的交叉点，提供一个新颖的视角来深入研究人类努力的最终目的，并确保赠款挑战概念的持续相关性。我们举例说明这个应用特洛通过数字福祉的棱镜，以-为中心的方法，展示了它如何为创新的理论框架、严格的实证研究和实践发展铺平道路。最后，我们提出了研究、实践和政策的未来方向。