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

By: Anteby, Michel, 1970-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008Description: xii, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Other title: Moral grey zones.Subject(s): Industrial relations -- Moral and ethical aspects | Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects | Homers (Manufactures) | Psychology, Industrial | Group identity | Aircraft industry -- France -- Case studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 174/.4 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.