Focus and breadth

“You have parts of the work that have to be focused and parts that have to be broad. For example, research questions have to be highly focused. The theoretical background of those questions needs to be broad enough to support them.

One of the problems I had as an editor of Journal of Management Studies was that I would see papers coming from North America that ignored research papers from Europe. That is of course much less of a problem nowadays, when you have to be broad to support a research question. You can’t answer a research question in North America any more that’s already been answered in Europe.”

(Steven Floyd)