Discussion about international generalizability has rarely addressed the full scope of management science research. This paper identifies a number of obstacles to international generalizability, and shows how they affect technical systems research and social systems research in different ways....

Performance is an important variable in strategic management research. But, although managers must deal with performance on two dimensions, its level (return) and the variation in that level (risk), performance has traditionally been studied only in terms of return. This paper reports the...