{"title":"Gal Beckerman. The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas","authors":"Jake B. Grandy","doi":"10.1177/00018392231152532","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Quiet Before is a beautifully written examination of the earliest stage of social activism, in which radical ideas are incubated and debated before emerg-ing publicly to challenge the status quo. Invoking Alinsky’s (1989) Rules for Radicals , Beckerman suggests that this stage constitutes the first two acts of a three-act blueprint for successful revolutions: in the first act, the characters and plot are introduced, in the second act they are developed before a final confron-tation","PeriodicalId":7203,"journal":{"name":"Administrative Science Quarterly","volume":"68 1","pages":"NP35 - NP38"},"PeriodicalIF":8.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Administrative Science Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392231152532","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Quiet Before is a beautifully written examination of the earliest stage of social activism, in which radical ideas are incubated and debated before emerg-ing publicly to challenge the status quo. Invoking Alinsky’s (1989) Rules for Radicals , Beckerman suggests that this stage constitutes the first two acts of a three-act blueprint for successful revolutions: in the first act, the characters and plot are introduced, in the second act they are developed before a final confron-tation
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Administrative Science Quarterly, under the ownership and management of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, has consistently been a pioneer in organizational studies since the inception of the field. As a premier journal, it consistently features the finest theoretical and empirical papers derived from dissertations, along with the latest contributions from well-established scholars. Additionally, the journal showcases interdisciplinary work in organizational theory and offers insightful book reviews.