SMR need the division of the theoretical contributors from
theoretical testers. Innovations and breakthroughs in strategic management theory are
arduous tasks and, if scholars do not focus on their theoretical contributions, they might not be able to produce noteworthy results. Theoretical contributions and theoreticaltests require different skills, expertise and resources. Scholars who are talented in theoretical contribution might have no resources to test their hypotheses; scholars with good resources to test hypotheses might have no advantages in hypothesizing.Therefore, it is overburdening scholars to require them to have good contributions to theoretical development as well as to theoretical testing. This is why SMR scholars always emphasize data availability as the premises for their research topic choices,which causes so many good research topics to be waived because the data are not available, and many good assumptions cannot be properly tested, and consequently are rejected by publication outlets. Moreover, if the hypotheses are tested by the same scholars or teams that propose them, it is not avoidable that the scholars act opportunistically to protect their theories (Bettis, 2012).