Extreme Bootlegging: Individual-level Antecedents to Creative Deviance

Helene Tenzer and Philip Yang

Chapter 17 in Corporate Underground:Bootleg Innovation and Constructive Deviance, 2022, pp 323-332 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The final chapter is dedicated to hardcore bootlegging or creative deviance and complements prior research on the organizational-level determinants of bootlegging by discussing its individual-level antecedents. Analyzing survey data from 457 employees in a German high-tech corporation, Tenzer and Yang demonstrate that risk propensity as a personality trait is positively related, whereas allocentrism as a personal value orientation and organizational commitment as a personal attitude are negatively related to creative deviance. Risk propensity emerged as the strongest predictor, as it affects hardcore bootlegging or creative deviance both directly and indirectly through allocentrism and commitment.

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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