This paper offers a critical analysis of recent developments in management knowledge. Observing that detractors have sought to “brand” developments in management knowledge as faddish and insubstantial distortions of the nature of management and the realities of organization, the paper offers...

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...

Purpose – This paper has been timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the publication of In Search of Excellence . Observing this anniversary, the paper aims to offer a critical review of the works of Tom Peters – a man vaunted as the guru of management. Reviewers have observed that...

Like most fields, the field of organizational change management has altered over time. In recent years the field has taken a “cultural turn”. Accordingly its methodological focus has altered somewhat. Sets out to analyse the claim that this methodological adjustment is reflective of the...