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Tarrabain, Chloe and Thomas, Robyn

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

and Thomas, Robyn

2021. The generation game: governing through bio-politics. Management Learning 52 (1) , pp. 47-64. 10.1177/1350507620938926

Reed, Cara

and Thomas, Robyn

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

, Riach, Kathleen and Thomas, Robyn

2020. Reflections on reflexive theorizing: the need for a little more conversation. Organization Theory 1 (3) 10.1177/2631787720944183

Mangan, Anita, Thomas, Robyn

, 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

, Ignasi, Marti and Seidl, David 2017. Resistance redux. Organization Studies 38 (9) , pp. 1157-1183. 10.1177/0170840617717554

Hardy, Cynthia

and Thomas, Robyn

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

and Hardy, Cynthia

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

and Thomas, Robyn

2015. Discourse in a material world. Journal of Management Studies 52 (5) , pp. 680-696. 10.1111/joms.12113

Thomas, Robyn

, Hardy, Cynthia

, 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

and Thomas, Robyn

2014. Strategy, discourse and practice: the intensification of power. Journal of Management Studies 51 (2) , pp. 320-348. 10.1111/joms.12005

Thomas, Robyn

and Parker, M. 2013. Organization@20. Organization 20 (1) , pp. 3-5. 10.1177/1350508412461002

Thomas, Robyn

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

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

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

and Thomas, Robyn

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

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

, Sargent, Leisa D. and Hardy, Cynthia

2011. Managing organizational change: negotiating meaning and power-resistance relations. Organization Science 22 (1) , pp. 22-41. 10.1287/orsc.1090.0520

Thomas, Robyn

and Hardy, Cynthia

2011. Reframing resistance to organizational change. Scandinavian Journal of Management 27 (3) , pp. 322-331. 10.1016/j.scaman.2011.05.004

Thomas, Robyn

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

2011. What is a critical journal? Organization 18 (4) , pp. 419-427. 10.1177/1350508411403535

Thomas, Robyn

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

and Davies, Annette 2010. Management consultant talk: a cross-cultural comparision of normalizing discourse and resistance. Grant, David, Hardy, Cynthia

and Putnam, Linda L., eds. Organizational Discourse Studies, Vol. 2 SAGE Library in Business and Management, London: Sage, pp. 414-416.

Thomas, Robyn

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

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

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

, 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

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

2009. Identity. Wakefield, Alison and Fleming, Jenny, eds. The Sage Dictionary of Policing, London: Sage, pp. 166-167.

Thomas, Robyn

2009. Critical management studies on identity: mapping the terrain. Willmott, Hugh

, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2007. Partners in crime: Identity manoeuvres in collaborative governance. Presented at: 5th Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, UK, 11-13 July 2007.

Thomas, Robyn

, Hardy, Cynthia

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

, Thomas, Robyn

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

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

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

, 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

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

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

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

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

, 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, No. 10. London: Routledge, pp. 1-16.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn

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

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

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

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, No. 10. London: Routledge, pp. 86-101.

Thomas, Robyn

, Mills, Albert J. and Helms Mills, Jean, eds. 2004. Identity politics at work: resisting gender, gendering resistance. Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society, No. 10. London: Routledge.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn

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

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

, Davies, Annette, Edwards, Timothy James

, Ezzamel, Mahmoud

, Ogbonna, Emmanuel Okechukwu

, 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

, Edwards, Timothy James

, Ezzamel, Mahmoud

, Harris, Lloyd, Ogbonna, Emmanuel Okechukwu

and Thomas, Robyn

2002. Organizing/theorizing: Developments in organization theory and practice. Management Research News 25 (8/9/10) , pp. 1-193. 10.1108/01409170210783368

Thomas, Robyn

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

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

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

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

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

and Linstead, A 2002. Losing the Plot? Middle Managers and Identity. Organization 9 (1) , pp. 71-93. 10.1177/135050840291004

Thomas, Robyn

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

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

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

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

2000. Researching Public Sector Change: The Argument for a Gender Inclusive Framework. Public Management 2 (4) , pp. 547-554.

Davies, Annette and Thomas, Robyn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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