SKOLKOVO School of Management

Anteby, Michel, 1970-

Moral gray zones : side productions, identity, and regulation in an aeronautic plant / Moral grey zones Michel Anteby. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008. - xii, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Based on a field study of a French aeronautic plant, Pierreville (pseudonym), which manufactures airplane engines.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.

The persistence of organizational gray zones -- The motivations and the setting -- Revisiting social systems in organizations -- The side production of homers in factories -- The Pierreville plant: setting and status divides -- The findings -- Retirement homers: an entry into the community -- Homers gone wrong: delimiting the gray zone -- Shades of homer meanings: occupational variations -- The rise and fall of craftsmanship -- Trading in hidden identity incentives -- The implications -- Organizational gray zones as identity distillers -- Identities, control, and moralities -- Appendix A: Data and methods -- Appendix B: Position in the field.

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Industrial relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
Organizational behavior--Moral and ethical aspects.
Homers (Manufactures)
Psychology, Industrial.
Group identity.
Aircraft industry--France--Case studies.

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