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Diefenbach, T. (2009) New public management in public sector organisations - the dark sides of managerialistic 'enlightenment'. Public Administration, 87 (4). pp. 892-909. ISSN 0033-3298

Diefenbach, Thomas (2009) Are case studies more than sophisticated story telling? Methodological problems of case studies mainly based on semi-structured interviews. Quality and Quantity, 43 (6). pp. 875-894. ISSN 0033-5177

Diefenbach, T. and By, R.T. and Klarner, P. (2009) A multi-dimensional analysis of managers's power - functional, socio-politcal, interpretive-discursive, and socio-cultural approaches, management revue. Management Revue. The International Review of Management Studies, 20 (4). pp. 413-431. ISSN 0935-9915

Diefenbach, T. (2008) Getting organizational change right in public services: the case of European higher education. Journal of Change Management, 8 (1). pp. 21-35.

Diefenbach, T. (2007) The managerialistic ideology of organisational change management. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 20 (1). pp. 126-144. ISSN 0953-4814

Book Section

Diefenbach, Thomas; By, Rune Todnem, ed. (2009) The ideological use of new public management concepts during organizational change initiatives. In: Managing Organizational Change in Public Services: International Issues, Challenges and Cases. Routledge, London, pp. 58-73. ISBN 978-0-415-46759-9

Conference or Workshop Item

Sillince, J.A.A. and Diefenbach, T. (2010) Challenges to Superiors' and Subordinates' Hierarchical Relationship - Crossing of Boundaries. In: IABE Summer Conference, International Academyof Business and Economics, 2010-07-04 - 2010-07-06. (Unpublished)

Diefenbach, T. and Sillince, J.A.A. (2010) Paradoxes in subordinates' challenges to organisational hierarchy. In: IFSAM World Conference, 2010-07-08 - 2010-07-10. (Unpublished)

Diefenbach, T. and Sillince, John A.A. (2009) Hierarchical order in different organisational forms. In: 15th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA), 2009-08-24 - 2009-08-27. (Unpublished)

Hibbert, P. and Sillince, J.A.A. and Diefenbach, T. (2009) Why new theories of organization are unlikely and what to do about it. In: Academy of Management, 2009-08-10 - 2009-08-12. (Unpublished)

Diefenbach, T. and Sillince, J.A.A. (2009) The persistence of social dominance in different organisational forms. In: 15th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA), 2009-08-24 - 2009-08-27. (Unpublished)

Diefenbach, T. and Sillince, J.A.A. (2009) Crossing boundaries: why hierarchical social order (almost always) persists over time when it is being challenged. In: 25th EGOS Colloquium, 2009-07-02 - 2009-07-04. (Unpublished)

Diefenbach, T. and By, R.T. and Klarner, P. (2008) Managers' multi-dimensional power - links between functional, political, and discursive approaches. In: 24th EGOS colloquium, 2008-07-10 - 2008-07-12. (Unpublished)

Book

Diefenbach, Thomas (2009) Management and the dominance of managers. Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society . Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-415-44335-7