Rousseau wins Best Book in Management Award a Second Time

This year’s Best Book in Management Award has gone to Denise M. Rousseau, H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and the Tepper School of Business. Rousseau received the 2006 George R. Terry Book Award at this year’s Academy of Management meetings in Atlanta, out of 43 books considered by a committee of international management scholars chaired by Andrew Van de Ven (Minnesota).  Her book I-deals: Idiosyncratic deals workers bargain for themselves (New York: M.E. Sharpe) impressed the committee with its insightful and systematic analysis of how employees can and do negotiate their own unique deals with employers, making an important contribution to both theory and practice in employment relations.

It’s the second time Rousseau has won the Terry Book Award, the only person to receive it twice in the history of the Academy of Management. The 1996 Terry Book Award went to Rousseau’s Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreement. (Thousand Oaks: Sage).  Criteria for the Terry Award include: making the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge; contributing to management theory, conceptualization, research, or practice; and published in the last two years. Finalists for this year’s Terry Award included Ron Burt (Chicago), W. Chan Kim and Renee Maubornge (Insead), Joel Polodny (Yale), and Joanne Yates (MIT).