Bootlegging Behavior: From Underground to Disclosure

Erfan Jalali Bidakhavidi and Kamal Sakhdari

Chapter 13 in Corporate Underground:Bootleg Innovation and Constructive Deviance, 2022, pp 269-276 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Research on bootlegging shows that individuals, as the origin of corporate entrepreneurship and innovation, often resort to undercover activities to develop and elaborate their initial ideas. Although reasons behind such behavior are well documented in the extant literature, less is known about what drives bootleggers to reveal their ideas. Drawing on field data from in-depth interviews with innovators in R&D departments in different industries of Iran, this research identified five groups of factors at the individual, managerial, firm, industrial, and idea level, which are at play in the revealing stage of bootlegging behavior.

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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