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Thomas J. Roulet is a British-French social scientist and management thinker based at the University of Cambridge. He fleshed out the concept of negative social evaluations. He is currently Associate Professor in Organisation Theory at the Judge Business School, fellow of Girton College and bye-fellow at King’s College Cambridge.

From 2017 to 2020, he was Co-Editor in chief of M@n@gement, which was founded as the first open access and bilingual journal in the field of management and organization theory, a journal of the French Academy of Management and sponsored by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He also servers as the Co-Director of the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab and is a deputy director of the Cambridge MBA programme. In 2020, he was elected as one of the trustees and council members of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. He is also a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy.

Academic career
Before becoming an academic, Roulet was an investment banker. He received his Master’s in management at Audencia Nantes (France), MPhil in Economic Governance at Sciences Po and completed his PhD in Management at HEC Paris. He was Chazen Visiting Scholar at Columbia University from 2011 to 2012. Previously, Roulet was a lecturer at Economics and Management at the University of Oxford (Pembroke College), Assistant Professor in Business Economics at the University of Bath, and Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master’s in International Management at King’s College London. He had a long standing affiliation with the Center for Professional Service Firm at the University of Oxford where he was a research fellow from 2014 to 2018.

Roulet is a Associate Editor for Business & Society, and Co-Editor of the essay section for the Journal of Management Studies. He also sits on editorial boards of Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, European Management Review, and Work Employment & Society.

Research and academic work
Roulet pioneered work in the area of negative social evaluations, articulating phenomena at different levels of analysis such as social stigma, scandals, or negative reputation, in particular through his 2020 book, “The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations” (Stanford University Press). According to its review in the Financial Times, the book outlines the mechanism through which negative social evaluations can have positive implications. The book was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize, a runner up for the George Terry Award of the Academy of Management and the Axiom Medal.

In 2016, before the US election, Roulet predicted Trump would be elected, despite being underestimated by polls because his supporters were the subject of a “spiral of silence”. They felt like they were in the minority while being a majority and thus their voices were not heard. In the Power of Being Divisive, he labels such political strategy as divisive leadership, a strategy aimed at polarizing opinion to build a strong support base.

In his work, he explains how the negative behaviours of the investment banking industry persisted during and after the financial crisis: as described by Matt Levine for Bloomberg, Roulet demonstrated how the media reporting of banks’ misconduct signalled their proximity to the core values of their field and brought them more business. This work was also covered by the Economist.

With colleagues, Roulet also wrote a piece on covert participant observation – rehabilitating the method as an important tool to uncover social phenomena that have ethical implications.

Honors

 * “40 under 40 Best Business School professors” (Poet&Quants)
 * He was awarded the “Best paper in Organizational Research Methods” by the Academy of Management and other reviewing and teaching awards.
 * Top 50 management professors in the London Area” (London50, London Business School)

Key academic work

 * Roulet, T. (2020): "Roulet: The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations, Stanford University Press". Stanford University Press. Stanford University Press.
 * Roulet, T.J., Gill, M.J., Stenger, S. and Gill, D.J. (2017) “Reconsidering the value of covert research: the role of ambiguous consent in participant observation.” Organizational Research Methods, 20(3): 487-517 (DOI: 10.1177/1094428117698745) (Winner of the ORM Best Paper Award in 2017)
 * Rodner, V., Roulet, T.J., Kerrigan, F. and Vom Lehn, D. (2020) “Making space for art: a spatial perspective of disruptive and defensive institutional work in Venezuela’s art world.” Academy of Management Journal, 63(4): 1054–1081 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.1030)
 * Harmon, D.J., Haack, P. and Roulet, T.J. (2019) “Microfoundations of institutions: a matter of structure versus agency or level of analysis?” Academy of Management Review, 44(2): 464-467 (DOI: 10.5465/amr.2018.0080)
 * Dahlin, K., Chuang Y.-T. and Roulet T. (2018) “Opportunities, motivation and ability to learn from failure and errors: review, synthesis, and ways to move forward.” Academy of Management Annals, 12(1): 252–277 (DOI: 10.5465/annals.2016.0049)
 * Shymko, Y. and Roulet, T. (2017) “When does Medici hurt Da Vinci? Mitigating the signaling effect of extraneous stakeholder relationships in the field of cultural production.” Academy of Management Journal, 60(4): 1307-1338 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2015.0464)
 * Clemente, M. and Roulet T.J. (2015) “Public opinion as a source of deinstitutionalization: a ‘spiral of silence’ approach.” Academy of Management Review, 40(1): 96-114 (DOI: 10.5465/amr.2013.0279)

Key practitioner work

 * Laker, B. & Roulet, T. (2019). Will the 4-day week take hold in Europe? Harvard Business Review
 * Laker, B. & Roulet, T. (2019). How Companies Can Adapt During Times of Political Uncertainty. Harvard Business Review.
 * Roulet, T. and Bothello, J. (2020) Why 'de-growth' shouldn't scare businesses. Harvard Business Review.
 * Roulet, T. and Laker, B. (2020) Now is the time to reconnect with your dormant social network. MIT Sloan Management Review.
 * Laker, B. and Roulet, T. (2021). How can organisations promote wellness now and post pandemic. MIT Sloan Management Review,