Moral gray zones [electronic resource] : side productions, identity, and regulation in an aeronautic plant / Michel Anteby.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.Description: xii, 230 p. : illOther title:
  • Moral grey zones
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 174/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • HD6971 .A657 2008eb
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Contents:
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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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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