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Tarrabain, Chloe and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2024. The dynamics of control of migrant agency workers: over-recruitment, "the bitchlist" and the enterprising-self. Work, Employment and Society 38 (1) , pp. 27-43. 10.1177/09500170221100934

Reed, Cara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-1661 and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2021. The generation game: governing through bio-politics. Management Learning 52 (1) , pp. 47-64. 10.1177/1350507620938926

Reed, Cara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-1661 and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2021. Embracing indeterminacy: on being a liminal professional. British Journal of Management 32 (1) , pp. 219-234. 10.1111/1467-8551.12385

Cutcher, Leanne, Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304, Riach, Kathleen and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2020. Reflections on reflexive theorizing: the need for a little more conversation. Organization Theory 1 (3) 10.1177/2631787720944183

Mangan, Anita, Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Davies, Annette and Gasper, Roz 2018. The challenges of police-community collaboration: identity manoeuvres and power struggles in a neighbourhood based meeting. Public Management Review 20 (9) , pp. 1353-1373. 10.1080/14719037.2017.1383718

Mumby, Dennis K., Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Ignasi, Marti and Seidl, David 2017. Resistance redux. Organization Studies 38 (9) , pp. 1157-1183. 10.1177/0170840617717554

Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304 and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2016. Power and process: the production of ‘knowing’ subjects and ‘known’ objects. Tsoukas, Hari and Langley, Ann, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies, SAGE, pp. 466-480. (10.4135/9781473957954)

Sierk, Ybema, Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304 2016. Organizational change and resistance: an identity perspective. Courpasson, David and Vallas, Steven, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Resistance, SAGE, pp. 386-404.

Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304 and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2015. Discourse in a material world. Journal of Management Studies 52 (5) , pp. 680-696. 10.1111/joms.12113

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304, Cutcher, Leanne and Ainsworth, Susan 2014. What's age got to do with it? On the critical analysis of age and organisations. Organization Studies 35 (11) , pp. 1569-1584. 10.1177/0170840614554363

Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304 and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2014. Strategy, discourse and practice: the intensification of power. Journal of Management Studies 51 (2) , pp. 320-348. 10.1111/joms.12005

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Parker, M. 2013. Organization@20. Organization 20 (1) , pp. 3-5. 10.1177/1350508412461002

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2012. Gendered identities and resistance in public service organisations. Mills, Jean Helms and Thomas, Robyn, eds. Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance, Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society, London: Routledge, pp. 86-101.

Davies, Annette, Mangan, Anita and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2012. Agency and Interests: A Discursive Analysis of Subjectivities in a Police/Community Meeting. Presented at: 10th International conference on Organizational Discourse, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8-20 July 2012.

Ainsworth, Susan, Cutcher, Leanne and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2012. Ideas that work: mobilizing Australian workers using a discourse of rights. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 25 (8) , pp. 2510-2528. 10.1080/09585192.2012.666259

Peattie, Susan, Peattie, Kenneth John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3969-0531 and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2012. Social marketing as transformational marketing in public services: The case of Project Bernie. Public Management Review 14 (7) , pp. 987-1010. 10.1080/14719037.2012.662444

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2011. Reassessing identity: the relevance of identity research for analysing employment relations. Blyton, Paul Robert, Heery, Edmund James and Turnbull, Peter John, eds. Reassessing the Employment Relationship, Management, Work and Organisations, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 147-168.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Sargent, Leisa D. and Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304 2011. Managing organizational change: negotiating meaning and power-resistance relations. Organization Science 22 (1) , pp. 22-41. 10.1287/orsc.1090.0520

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304 2011. Reframing resistance to organizational change. Scandinavian Journal of Management 27 (3) , pp. 322-331. 10.1016/j.scaman.2011.05.004

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2011. Theorizing the micro-politics of resistance: new public management and managerial identities in the UK public services. Grant, D., Hardy, C. and Putnam, L. L., eds. Organizational Discourse Studies, Vol. 3. SAGE Library in Business and Management, London: SAGE, pp. 239-264.

Parker, Martin and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2011. What is a critical journal? Organization 18 (4) , pp. 419-427. 10.1177/1350508411403535

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2010. Resisting organizational change: Paradox, process and power. Presented at: Second International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Rhodes, Greece, 11-13 June 2010.

Merilianen, Susan, Tienari, Janne, Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2010. Management consultant talk: a cross-cultural comparision of normalizing discourse and resistance. Grant, David, Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304 and Putnam, Linda L., eds. Organizational Discourse Studies, Vol. 2. SAGE Library in Business and Management, London: Sage, pp. 414-416.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2010. Theorizing the micro-politics of resistance: new public management and managerial identities in the UK public services. Clegg, Strewart R., ed. SAGE Directions in Organization Studies, Vol. 3. SAGE Library in Business and Management, London: SAGE, pp. 231-254.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2010. Theorizing the micro-politics of resistance: new public management and managerial identities in the UK public services. Boyne, George Alexander and Ashworth, Rachel Elizabeth, eds. Organizing Government, Vol. 4. Organizing & Managing Public Services, London: SAGE, pp. 197-220.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2009. Managing change in complex environments: Power and resistance in negotiating divergent and convergent meanings across vertical boundaries. Presented at: APROS 2009, Monterrey, Mexico, 6-9 December 2009.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Tienari, Janne, Davies, Annette and Merilainen, Susan 2009. Let's talk about "us": a reflexive account of a cross-cultural research collaboration. Journal of Management Inquiry 18 (4) , pp. 313-324. 10.1177/1056492608324457

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2009. Theorising the micro-politics of resistance: discourses of change and professional identities in the UK public services. Clegg, Stewart R., ed. SAGE Directions in Organization Studies, Vol. 3. SAGE Library in Business and Management, London: Sage, pp. 1-30.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2009. Identity. Wakefield, Alison and Fleming, Jenny, eds. The Sage Dictionary of Policing, London: Sage, pp. 166-167.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2009. Critical management studies on identity: mapping the terrain. Willmott, Hugh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1321-7041, Bridgman, Todd and Alvesson, Mats, eds. The Handbook of Critical Management Studies, Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 166-185. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199595686.013.0008)

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Tienari, J. 2008. Publishing from the periphery. Presented at: ESRC Seminar: English as the Global Lingua Franca in International Business and Management, Nottingham, UK, November 2008.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2008. Studying meetings: Discursive approaches. Presented at: Strategy-as-Practice Symposium: Studying Workshops and Meetings, Birmingham, UK, 28 April 2008.

Alvesson, Mats, Lee Ashcraft, Karen and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2008. Identity matters: reflections on the construction of identity scholarship in organization studies. Organization 15 (1) , pp. 5-28. 10.1177/1350508407084426

Merilainen, Susan, Tienari, Janne, Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2008. Hegemonic academic practices: experiences of publishing from the periphery. Organization 15 (4) , pp. 584-597. 10.1177/1350508408091008

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2008. Dixon of dock green got shot! Policing identity work and organizational change. Public Administration 86 (3) , pp. 627-642. 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2008.00744.x

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2007. Putting Communities First: A discursive analysis of policing identities and change. Presented at: Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2007, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 3-8 August 2007.

Davies, Annette, Mangan, Anita and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2007. Partners in crime: Identity manoeuvres in collaborative governance. Presented at: 5th Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, UK, 11-13 July 2007.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304 and Sargent, Leisa 2007. Artifacts in interaction: The production and politics of boundary objects. [Working Paper]. AIM Research Working Paper Series, vol. 52. London: Advanced Institute of Management Research. Available at: http://www.aimresearch.org/uploads/pdf/working_pap...

Hardy, Cynthia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2612-7304, Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Sargent, Leisa 2007. The practice of cooperation: Boundary objects and emancipatory knowledge. Presented at: Organization Studies Summer Workshop 2007, Crete, Greece, 7-9 June 2007.

Tienari, J. and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2006. Penetrating the Academic Publishing Machine: A Rough Guide. The Finnish Journal of Business Economics 2006 (3) , pp. 369-380.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2006. The agency of texts: A study of community policing. Presented at: 7th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: 'Identity, Ideology and Idiosyncrasy', Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 26-28 July 2006.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Tienari, Janne and Davies, Annette 2005. In praise of un-common sense: Cross-cultural issues in the reflexive study of identities. Presented at: Academy of Management Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 05-10 August 2005.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2005. Dixon of Dock Green got shot! Policing identity work and organisational change. Presented at: 4th Critical Management Studies Conference, Cambridge, UK, 4-6 July 2005.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2005. Theorizing the micro-politics of resistance: new public management and managerial identities in the UK public services. Organization Studies 26 (5) , pp. 683-706. 10.1177/0170840605051821

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2005. I don't want any more of this pink and fluffy crap. Get on with real policing! (Re)constructing real policing and policing identities. Presented at: Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Leeds, UK, 04-07 April 2005.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2005. What Have Feminists Done for Us? Feminist Theory and Organizational Resistance. Organization 12 (5) , pp. 711-740. 10.1177/1350508405055945

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Mills, Albert and Mills, Jean Helms 2004. Introduction: resisting gender, gendering resistance. Thomas, Robyn, Mills, Albert and Mills, Jean Helms, eds. Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance, Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society, vol. 10. London: Routledge, pp. 1-16.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2004. Changing professional identities under new public management: a gendered perspective. Stewart, Paul, ed. Employment, Trade Union Renewal and the Future of Work: The Experience of Work and Organisational Change, Future of Work, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 64-88.

Merilianen, Susan, Tienari, Janne, Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2004. Management Consultant Talk: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Normalizing Discourse and Resistance. Organization 11 (4) , pp. 539-564. 10.1177/1350508404044061

Davies, Annette, Meriläinen, Susan, Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Tienari, Janne 2004. In praise of 'un-common' sense: Methodological considerations in cross-cultural discursive approaches to organizational analysis. Presented at: 22nd Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Halifax, Canada, 07-10 July 2004.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2004. Gendered identities and resistance in public service organizations. Thomas, Robyn, Mills, A. and Helms Mills, J., eds. Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance, Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society, vol. 10. London: Routledge, pp. 86-101.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Mills, Albert J. and Helms Mills, Jean, eds. 2004. Identity politics at work: resisting gender, gendering resistance. Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society, vol. 10. London: Routledge.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2003. Talking Cop: Discourses of change and policing identities. Public Administration 81 (4) , pp. 681-699. 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2003.00367.x

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2002. Gendering and Gender in Public Service Organizations: Changing Professional Identities Under New Public Management. Public Management Review 4 (4) , pp. 461-484. 10.1080/14616670210163024

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679, Davies, Annette, Edwards, Timothy James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6034-1948, Ezzamel, Mahmoud ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-8440, Ogbonna, Emmanuel Okechukwu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-1535, Budhwar, Pawan and Crane, Andy 2002. Organizing/theorizing: developments in organization theory and practice. Presented at: Employment Research Unit Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, 12-13 September 2002.

Budhwar, Pawan, Crane, Andy, Davies, Annette, Delbridge, Rick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8451-265X, Edwards, Timothy James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6034-1948, Ezzamel, Mahmoud ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-8440, Harris, Lloyd, Ogbonna, Emmanuel Okechukwu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-1535 and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2002. Organizing/theorizing: Developments in organization theory and practice. Management Research News 25 (8/9/10) , pp. 1-193. 10.1108/01409170210783368

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2002. Gender and new public management: reconstituting academic subjectivities. Gender work & organization 9 (4) , pp. 372-397. 10.1111/1468-0432.00165

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2002. From crime fighting to problem-solving: A gendered analysis of 'new policing' identities. Presented at: Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2002, Denver, CO, USA, 09-14 August 2002.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2002. From crime fighting to problem solving: A gendered analysis of 'new policing' identities. Presented at: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Denver, CO, USA, 9-14 August 2002.

Davies, Annette, Meriläinen, S., Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Tienari, J. 2002. Don't hurry, be happy! Gendered identities and management consultants: A cross-cultural comparison. Presented at: 20th Anniversary Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, Budapest, Hungary, 10-13 July 2002.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2002. Managerialism and Accountability in Higher Education: the Gendered Nature of Restructuring and the Costs to Academic Service. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 13 (2) , pp. 179-193. 10.1006/cpac.2001.0497

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Linstead, A 2002. Losing the Plot? Middle Managers and Identity. Organization 9 (1) , pp. 71-93. 10.1177/135050840291004

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2002. What difference does it make? A Foucauldian feminist reading of new public management. Presented at: 18th EGOS Colloquium, Barcelona, Spain, 4-8 July 2002.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2002. Restructuring the "Old Bill': Policing Identities and Commitment. Women in Management Review 17 (3/4) , pp. 180-189. 10.1108/09649420210425327

Linstead, A. and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2002. "What Do You Want from Me?" A Poststructuralist Feminist Reading of Middle Managers' Identities. Culture and Organization 8 (1) , pp. 1-20. 10.1080/14759550212106

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Davies, Annette 2002. Gender and restructuring: managerial roles and identities in the public sector. [Project Report]. Economic and Social Research Council. Available at: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/R000223078/re...

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2000. Researching Public Sector Change: The Argument for a Gender Inclusive Framework. Public Management 2 (4) , pp. 547-554.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 2000. Gender and human resource management: a critical review. International Journal of Human Resource Management 11 (6) , pp. 1125-1136. 10.1080/09585190050177193

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Pullen, A. 2000. Middle Management Identities in Modern Organizations: "shiny happy people"? International Journal of Applied Management 1 (1) , pp. 19-36.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Dunkerley, D. 1999. Careering downwards? Middle Management in the Downsized Organization. British Journal of Management 10 (2) , pp. 157-169. 10.1111/1467-8551.00117

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 and Dunkerley, D. 1999. Janus and the Bureaucrats: Middle Management in the Public Sector. Public Policy and Administration 14 (1) , pp. 28-41. 10.1177/095207679901400103

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 1998. Incorporation or alienation? Resisting the gendered discourses of academic appraisal. Malina, D. and Maslin-Prothero, S., eds. Surviving the Academy: Feminist Perspectives, London: Falmer Press, pp. 89-100.

Thomas, Robyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679 1996. Gendered cultures and performance appraisal: the experience of women academics. Gender, Work & Organization 3 (3) , pp. 143-155. 10.1111/j.1468-0432.1996.tb00055.x