Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 18 Issue 1

Guest editorial: discourse and organizational change

David Grant, Grant Michelson, Cliff Oswick, Nick Wailes

This paper aims to examine the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding organizational change.

Managing change at Sears: a sideways look at a tale of corporate transformation

David Collins, Kelley Rainwater

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…

Discourses of disrupted identities in the practice of strategic change: The mayor, the street‐fighter and the insider‐out

Nic Beech, Phyl Johnson

To explore identity dynamics in the lived experience of a strategic change over time.

Discourse as strategic coping resource: managing the interface between “home” and “work”

Susanne Tietze

To provide insight into the consequences of telework from the perspective of the teleworker and the household. The paper discusses the consequences of telework for the formulation…

“What you'll say is … ”: represented voice in organizational change discourse

Donald L. Anderson

Following Bakhtin, organizational discourse scholars have examined ways in which organizational actors draw on and negotiate historical texts, weave them with contemporary ones…

Post‐crisis discourse and organizational change, failure and renewal

Matthew W. Seeger, Robert R. Ulmer, Julie M. Novak, Timothy Sellnow

To examine the post 9/11 communication of the bond‐trading firm, Cantor Fitzgerald and its CEO Howard Lutnick, according to the discourse of renewal framework.

Afterword: why language matters in the analysis of organizational change

Haridimos Tsoukas

This invited article aims to show how the papers in the special issue highlight the advantages of using discourse analysis in order to contribute to our understanding of…