A Spatio-Political Approach to Bootlegging: Empowerment Within Third Spaces

Amadou Lô and Pauline Fatien Diochon

Chapter 8 in Corporate Underground:Bootleg Innovation and Constructive Deviance, 2022, pp 211-218 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: While bootlegging is often reduced to an individual equation, Chapter 7 opens to a spatio-political approach to bootlegging. It depicts how a third space (here a Fab Lab) supports’ low power actors’ bootlegging through three dimensions of transgression (namely cognitio-cultural, material, and socio-political). In doing so, this bootlegging enables them to empower themselves through a triple control of meaning, resources, and processes. It builds on a case study we conducted in the Fab Lab of the French car manufacturer Renault.

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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