Offers a response to a discussion of the language of change, which appeared in an earlier issue of JOCM (Vol. 14, 2001 ). While applauding any attempt to develop an appreciation of the fluidity of the processes and politics of organizational change offers a critical response to the account of...

Purpose – This paper offers a reanalysis or “re‐view” of a celebrated tale of corporate transformation – the turnaround of Sears, Roebuck and Company – which was discussed in the Harvard Business Review . Noting that “contextual” and “processual” attempts to revise the tale...