CrossFit in the Crosshairs (Forti et al. 2025) | FT50 ASQ

English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:14:13Hindi Podcast Start at 00:39:39🎙️ Welcome into the podcast “Revise and Resubmit”!📚 Today we open the covers of a brand-new Administrative Science Quarterly study—yes, that glittering FT50 powerhouse—and watch sparks fly in every direction. The title already crackles: “CrossFit in the Crosshairs: A Community-Embedded Theory of Firm Responsiveness to Social Issues.”🏋️‍♂️ Picture thousands of local CrossFit boxes, sweating, chalk-dust swirling, when a CEO’s tweet about George Floyd ignites a national firestorm. Some gyms snap to attention, distance themselves, post statements. Others stay silent, doors half-closed, barbells still clanging. Why?Gary Provost would tell us to make the long sentence sing, the short one punch. So listen to the rhythm:Networks close.Segregation divides.Ties connect.When ties are inward-looking, outrage stays outside. When communities are stitched directly to the harmed, outrage walks right in, kicks off its shoes, and demands a response.🔬 Enrico Forti, Alessandro Piazza, and Joost Rietveld trace this social circuitry with data from every U.S. zip code that hosts a CrossFit gym. Their theory of “community permeability” shows how the wiring of a neighborhood governs which issues surge through and which fade to a whisper—especially when businesses need local love more than ever. 💡So lean closer, earbuds humming. Feel the cadence rise, fall, rise again. Because what happens inside those gym walls might be echoing inside your own organization, your own street, your own mind.🤔 And here’s the curious question: if the social structure outside your door decides what you’ll stand for tomorrow, how will you rewire it today?🙏 Thanks to the authors—Enrico Forti, Alessandro Piazza, and Joost Rietveld—and to SAGE Publications for bringing this FT50 gem to light.🔔 Don’t forget to hit “Follow” on “Revise and Resubmit” over on Spotify, Amazon Prime, and Apple Podcast, and smash that subscribe button on our YouTube home, “Weekend Researcher.” See you in the next episode! 🎧✨ReferenceForti, E., Piazza, A., & Rietveld, J. (2025). CrossFit in the Crosshairs: A Community-Embedded Theory of Firm Responsiveness to Social Issues. Administrative Science Quarterly, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392251360671Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher