Corporate Underground:Bootleg Innovation and Constructive Deviance

Edited by Peter Augsdorfer

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Abstract: In the corporate underground, creative intrapreneurs produce ideas autonomously and without the consent of management. Such informal activity frequently 'corrects' and compensates for the weaknesses of formal organizational systems. The corporate underground is an adjusting element for a number of organizational paradoxes. This imposes a certain legitimacy on covert activities such as bootlegging and constructive deviance. It reflects a basic axiom of the evolutionary perspective: change and creativity are reliant upon elements of redundancy, waste and inefficiency.

Keywords: Bootlegging; Creative Deviance; R&D Management; Innovation; Technology Management; Slack Innovation; Underground System; Under-the-Table Work; Informal Corporate Entrepreneurship; Autonomous Initiatives; Underground Innovation; Stealth Innovation; Unsponsored Innovation; Friday-Afternoon Work; Work Behind the Fume Cupboard; Free-Lance Work; Under-the-Counter Work; Pet Project; Discretionary Research; Intrapreneurship; Freewheeling; Illicit Research; Scrounging; Renegades' Work; Recherche Camouflagé; Recherche Caché; Recherche Parallèle; Recherche Libre; Recherche En Perruque; Recherche Sauvage or Recherche Sous-Marine; U-boot Forschung or Graue Projekte (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
ISBN: 9781800612259
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 3 The Presence of Bootlegging Activity in the R&D Department of High-Technology Firms , pp 75-102

Marek Szwejczewski and Yaser Masoudnia

Ch 4 Bootlegging in a Technology-Driven Organization: Process, Challenges, and Opportunities , pp 103-132

Anika Stephan-Korus

Ch 5 Navigating a Typology of Corporate Entrepreneurial Strategies: The Case of Unilever , pp 135-165

Linda Nhu Laursen and Poul Houman Andersen

Ch 6 Individual and Contextual Factors Affecting Employees’ Inclination to Bootlegging , pp 167-186

Dietfried Globocnik

Ch 7 Which Factors Enable Self-Organized Product Innovations? The Diverse Effects of Formal Management Systems , pp 187-210

Rudolph Koch and Karl-Heinz Leitner

Ch 8 A Spatio-Political Approach to Bootlegging: Empowerment Within Third Spaces , pp 211-218

Amadou Lô and Pauline Fatien Diochon

Ch 9 Creative Bootlegging as a Catalyst Between Job Design (Mis)fit and Innovative Work Behavior , pp 219-232

Tomislav Hernaus, Matej Černe and Miha Škerlavaj

Ch 10 Creative Bootlegging: A Transitional Space for Employees Toward Innovating , pp 233-239

Khatereh Ghasemzadeh

Ch 11 Bootlegging and Individual Innovation Performance: The Joint Effect of Status and Creativity , pp 241-246

Wei Huang, Guopeng Xiang, Yunzhou Du and Yang Liu

Ch 12 Overcoming the Initial Illegitimacy of Ideas , pp 249-268

Stephan Eicher

Ch 13 Bootlegging Behavior: From Underground to Disclosure , pp 269-276

Erfan Jalali Bidakhavidi and Kamal Sakhdari

Ch 14 The Individual in Bootlegging Innovation , pp 279-290

Alexander Krueger and Arne Buchwald

Ch 15 Innovative Engagement in Bootlegging Projects: How to Manage the Rise of the Innovation Rebel , pp 291-307

Claudia C. Michalik

Ch 17 Extreme Bootlegging: Individual-level Antecedents to Creative Deviance , pp 323-332

Helene Tenzer and Philip Yang

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