Bootlegging in a Technology-Driven Organization: Process, Challenges, and Opportunities

Anika Stephan-Korus

Chapter 4 in Corporate Underground:Bootleg Innovation and Constructive Deviance, 2022, pp 103-132 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This chapter focuses on three aspects of the bootlegging process summarizing our prior research: First, we compare bootlegging processes to regular processes and explore how the characteristics, which often represent challenges, differ between both. Second, building on the specific and challenging characteristics of bootlegging processes, we lay out what specific support measures are needed. Third, we suggest how selected support measures could be systematically implemented organization-wide via a system of corporate crowdfunding. Before summarizing our findings and propositions in these three areas, we describe the methods by which they have been developed.

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
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