Designing Experiments That Generalize
指出组织研究过度依赖被动观察，源于对实验可推广性的误解，强调实验对理解组织现象的重要性，并区分了关于实验可推广性的合理与无关担忧。
Organizational research has relied too heavily on methods characterized by passive observation, likely because there is a widespread belief that experimental research has limited generalizability. However, this is often because researchers (and reviewers or editors) misunderstand the nature of generalizability and what it requires. This article reiterates the importance of experimental research for understanding organizational phenomena and separates the legitimate concerns about experimental generalizability from the irrelevant ones. Whereas most criticisms of experiments focus on sample characteristics and mundane realism (i.e., superficial resemblance to the real world), more attention needs to be paid to the degree to which the treatment manipulation is valid, representative, and strong.