Creative Bootlegging: A Transitional Space for Employees Toward Innovating

Khatereh Ghasemzadeh

Chapter 10 in Corporate Underground:Bootleg Innovation and Constructive Deviance, 2022, pp 233-239 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This chapter discusses the role of creative bootlegging as a bridge between individuals’ self-efficacy characteristics and individuals’ tendency to become the lead users. Analyzing the mechanism of bootlegging activities among working employees of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the blue sector, this chapter shows that bootlegging is a transitional space between individuals’ self-beliefs in their abilities and their willingness to and generate innovative ideas by providing the opportunity for identity play among employees. The chapter contributes to the bootlegging concept by shedding light on the individuals’ self-exploration characteristics, namely self-efficacy that triggers them to perform bootleg activities through which achieve enough confidence and autonomy to participate in the innovation-related activities.

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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