Purpose The purpose of Part II of this two-part paper is to uncover important differences in the nature of the three unlearning subprocesses, which call for different leadership interventions to motivate people to move through them. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on research in...

Purpose The first purpose of this short essay is to respond to Howells and Scholderer’s (2016) harsh critique that organizational unlearning is a superfluous concept. The second purpose is to establish a relationship between organizational unlearning and the learning organization....

Purpose This paper aims to provide some comments on the four papers, other than the author’s own, that were included in a recent special issue on organizational unlearning. Design/methodology/approach The author carefully reads these papers and identify problems that may hinder unlearning...