Innovative Engagement in Bootlegging Projects: How to Manage the Rise of the Innovation Rebel

Claudia C. Michalik

Chapter 15 in Corporate Underground:Bootleg Innovation and Constructive Deviance, 2022, pp 291-307 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This chapter explores the innovative engagement in bootlegging projects and some of the many questions coming up when covert commitment leads to innovation against the odds. The author develops a model of innovative engagement that identifies character traits of innovation rebels and the environment they need to thrive in an organization. Based on an empirical study in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, this chapter presents two specific types of innovation rebels — the ambitious bootlegger and the creative bootlegger — and discusses how to manage their innovative engagement to create ground-breaking innovation.

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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