Finally, theories with unsound explanations suggest invalid propositions for empirical testing. Logical and empirical criteria are related, but they are not identical. Logical testing cannot replace empirical testing, but it should precede it. Along with logical and empirical criteria, there are pragmatic criteria for the success of a theory. Preferably, theories should be relevant, interesting.
Relevance is highly contextual, depending on time, place, forum, reputation, etc.
Theory-building an important and difficult issue, not a side issue to be hidden from the public. Consider two classical examples of theory-building in a simple domain, geometry. This postulate is intuitively less obvious than the other postulates, and so it was thought that it may be derivable from the other postulates. This question remained open for more than 2000 years, and occupied more scholars than ever practiced organization theory, but when it was finally settled in the 19th century, it opened avenues for non-Euclidean geometries that are, for instance, at the basis of relativity in physics. Consider some other examples closer to home.