"The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations" (Stanford University Press, 2020) named runner up for the George R. Terry Book Award
"The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations" (Stanford University Press, 2020) was named runner up for the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award, a prestigious award granted annually to the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the global advancement of management knowledge.
The Academy of Management is the largest academic community for management research. The award is named after George Terry whose book 'The Principles of Management' is considered the first book on the subject.
The author, Thomas Roulet, is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory and the Deputy Director of the MBA Programme at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He holds a fellowship at Girton College, and a bye-fellowship at King's College, where he is co-directing the newly launched King's Entrepreneurship Lab. The Financial Times has described his book as “a fascinating study of the social-media fuelled and fast-changing landscape of public opinion, and the possible ways in which that might be beneficial."