Michel Anteby - Boston University Questrom

Michel Anteby is a Professor of Management & Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and Sociology at Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences. He also co-leads Boston University’s Precarity Lab.

His research looks at how individuals relate to their work, their occupations, and the organizations they belong to. He examines more specifically the practices people engage in at work that help them sustain their chosen cultures or identities. In doing so, his research contributes to a better understanding of how these cultures and identities come to be and manifest themselves. Studied populations have included airport security officers, anesthesiologists, clinical anatomists, factory craftsmen, ghostwriters, puppeteers, and subway drivers.

Prof. Anteby earned a joint Ph.D. in management from New York University and in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). In addition, he served as chair of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth and co-chair of its Safe Schools program. After growing up in France and previously working there as a consultant focusing on labor issues, he remains affiliated as a Research Fellow with the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations in Paris.

Education

PhD, New York University, 2005

PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2005

MPA, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2000

MA, ESSEC (France), 1993

Publications

Anteby, M., Mears, A., Ward, P. (In Press). “Learning to Labor Like a Hard-Working Foreigner”, Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Holm, A., Fong, B., Anteby, M. (2024). “The Perils of Voice Veneer: The Case of Disneyland Puppeteers’ Unionization Efforts”, Academy of Management Discoveries, 10 (4), 527-542

Anteby, M. (2024). “The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field”, Princeton University Press

Bourmault, N., Anteby, M. (2023). “Rebooting One’s Professional Work: The Case of French Anesthesiologists Using Hypnosis”, Administrative Science Quarterly, 68 (4), 913-955

Cameron, L., Chan, C., Anteby, M. (2022). “Heroes From Above But Not (Always) From Within? Gig Workers’ Reactions to the Sudden Public Moralization of their Work”, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 172

Grodal, S., Anteby, M., Holm, A. (2021). “Achieving Rigor in Qualitative Analysis: The Role of Active Categorization in Theory Building”, Academy of Management Review, 46 (3), 591-612

Anteby, M., Holm, A. (2021). “Translating Expertise across Work Contexts: U.S. Puppeteers Move from Stage to Screen”, American Sociological Review, 86 (2), 310-340

Bourmault, N., Anteby, M. (2020). “Unpacking the Managerial Blues: How Expectations Formed in the Past Carry into New Jobs”, Organization Science, 31 (6), 1452-1474

Anteby, M. (2020). Dénis, obstructions et silences: La résistance du terrain. In V, Duprat-Kushtanina., C, Perrin-Joly. (Eds.), “Parler de Soi : Méthodes Biographiques en Sciences Sociales”, Éditions de l’EHESS 215-226

DeCelles, K., Anteby, M. (2020). “Compassion in the Clink: When and How Human Services Workers Overcome Barriers to Care”, Organization Science, 31 (6), 1408-1431

Anteby, M., Occhiuto, N. (2020). “Stand-in Labor and the Rising Economy of Self”, Social Forces, 98 (3), 1287-1310

Anteby, M., Chan, C. (2018). “A Self-Fulfilling Cycle of Coercive Surveillance: Workers’ Invisibility Practices and Managerial Justification”, Organization Science, 29 (2), 247-263

Chan, C., Anteby, M. (2016). “Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration”, Administrative Science Quarterly, 61 (2), 184-216

Anteby, M., Chan, C., DiBenigno, J. (2016). “Three Lenses on Occupations and Professions in Organizations: Becoming, Doing, and Relating”, The Academy of Management Annals, 10 (1), 183-244

Anteby, M. (2016). “The Ideology of Silence at the Harvard Business School: Structuring Faculty’s Teaching Tasks for Moral Relativism”, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 25 103-121

Anteby, M. (2015). Denials, Obstructions, and Silences: Lessons from Repertoires of Field Resistance (and Embrace).”Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research Innovative Pathways and Methods”, Routledge 197-205

Tilcsik, A., Anteby, M., Knight, C. (2015). “Concealable Stigma and Occupational Segregation: Toward a Theory of Gay and Lesbian Occupations”, Administrative Science Quarterly, 60 (3), 446-481

Anteby, M. (2015). “L’Ecole des patrons: Silence et morales d’entreprise à la Business School de Harvard”, Editions Rue d’Ulm

Asad, A., Anteby, M., Garip, F. (2014). “Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors”, Social Science and Medicine, 106 53-58

Anteby, M., Anderson, C. (2014). “The shifting landscape of LGBT organizational research”, Research in Organizational Behavior, 34 3-25

Anteby, M. (2013). “Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education”, The University of Chicago Press

Anteby, M. (2013). “Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement”, Organization Science, 24 (4), 1277-1290

Anteby, M., Wrzesniewski, A. (2013). “In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults’ Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization”, Research in the Sociology of Work, 25 13-50

Anteby, M., Molnar, V. (2012). “Collective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering To Forget In A Firm’s Rhetorical History”, Academy of Management Journal, 55 (3), 515-540

Anteby, M. (2010). “Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the US Commerce in Cadavers”, Administrative Science Quarterly, 55 (4), 606-638

Battilana, J., Anteby, M., Sengul, M. (2010). “The Circulation of Ideas across Academic Communities: When locals re-import exported ideas”, Organization Studies, 31 (6), 695-713

Anteby, M. (2009). “A Market for Human Cadavers in All But Name?”, Economic Sociology : the European Electronic Newsletter, 11 (1), 3-7

Anteby, M. (2008). “Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant”, Princeton University Press

Anteby, M. (2008). “Identity incentives as an engaging form of control: Revisiting leniencies in an aeronautic plant”, Organization Science, 19 (2), 202-220

Anteby, M., Hyman, M. (2008). “Entrepreneurial ventures and whole-body donations: A regional perspective from the United States”, Social Science and Medicine, 66 (4), 963-969

Anteby, M. (2006). “Factory “Homers”: Understanding a Highly Elusive, Marginal, and Illegal Practice”, Sociologie du Travail, 48 e22-e38

Anteby, M. (2003). “La ‘Perruque’ en Usine: Approche d’une Pratique Marginale, Illegale et Fuyante”, Sociologie du Travail, 45 (4), 453-471

Anteby, M. (2003). “The ‘Moralities’ of Poaching: Manufacturing Personal Artifacts on the Factory Floor”, Ethnography 4 (2)