“…My 9 concern is that they may have inadvertently led new researchers to think that generalizability is in some way central to interpretive systems research when this richer research tradition has a very different set of priorities. At least five different research perspectives provide examples of these priorities, notably in the now extensive argumentative (Rehg, 1999), systems inquiry (Churchman, 1971), perspectival thinking (Linstone, 1999;Haynes, 2000), actionable knowledge (Argyris, 1996) and critical social theory (Alvesson and Skoldberg, 2000) literature. Moreover, any discussion of generalizabilty might want to address Popper's (1963) critique of induction.…”