CORPORATE UNDERGROUND

In the corporate underground, creative intrapreneurs produce ideas autonomously and without the consent of management. Such informal activity frequently 'corrects' and compensates for the weaknesses of formal organizational systems. The corporate underground is an adjusting element for a number of organizational paradoxes. This imposes a certain legitimacy on covert activities such as bootlegging and constructive deviance. It reflects a basic axiom of the evolutionary perspective: change and creativity are reliant upon elements of redundancy, waste and inefficiency. With contributions from 16 leading experts in this field, the book offers a comprehensive picture of the nature of covert creativity for theory, research and practice. The chapters cover a wide range of facets of underground activity, including basic information, the sensitive transition from underground to formal disclosure at an organization, and psychological factors. This book is a valuable compendium for academics and practitioners interested in R&D and innovation. Management seeking to better manage their innovative capabilities in their companies will also benefit from this book. Contents: Preface About the Editor List of Contributors Introduction (Peter Augsdorfer) General Information About Bootlegging: The Basics of Bootlegging (Peter Augsdorfer) The Presence of Bootlegging Activity in the R&D Department of High-Technology Firms (Marek Szwejczewski and Yaser Masoudnia) Bootlegging in a Technology-Driven Organization: Process, Challenges, and Opportunities (Anika Stephan-Korus) Management and Organization of Bootlegging: Navigating a Typology of Corporate Entrepreneurial Strategies: The Case of Unilever (Linda Nhu Laursen and Poul Houman Andersen) Individual and Contextual Factors Affecting Employees' Inclination to Bootlegging (Dietfried Globocnik) Which Factors Enable Self-Organized Product Innovations? The Diverse Effects of Formal Management Systems (Rudolph Koch and Karl-Heinz Leitner) A Spatio-Political Approach to Bootlegging: Empowerment Within Third Spaces (Amadou Lô and Pauline Fatien Diochon) Creative Bootlegging as a Catalyst Between Job Design (Mis)fit and Innovative Work Behavior (Tomislav Hernaus, Matej Černe, and Miha Škerlavaj) Creative Bootlegging: A Transitional Space for Employees Toward Innovating (Khatereh Ghasemzadeh) Bootlegging and Individual Innovation Performance: The Joint Effect of Status and Creativity (Wei Huang, Guopeng Xiang, Yunzhou Du, and Yang Liu) Bootlegging Disclosure Processes: Overcoming the Initial Illegitimacy of Ideas (Stephan Eicher) Bootlegging Behavior: From Underground to Disclosure (Erfan Jalali Bidakhavidi and Kamal Sakhdari) Psychology of Bootlegging: The Individual in Bootlegging Innovation (Alexander Krueger and Arne Buchwald) Innovative Engagement in Bootlegging Projects: How to Manage the Rise of the Innovation Rebel (Claudia C Michalik) TSD-Z, a Creativity Test to Identify Bootleggers (Peter Augsdorfer) Extreme Bootlegging: Individual-level Antecedents to Creative Deviance (Helene Tenzer and Philip Yang) Index Readership: Academic researchers, PhD students learning about bootlegging; professionals in the R&D management and innovation management industries. 'In contrast to current attempts to formalize the innovation process through standardization, in this excellent book Peter Augsdorfer argues the case for bootlegging, the ultimate example of informal innovation. The book brings together the latest international research and case studies, and represents a refreshing antidote to the institutional pressures to control, structure and stifle the motivations and energy of grassroots innovation. ' - Professor Joe TiddScience Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK 'Bootlegging is one of those hidden secrets in the innovation process — the kind of project that stays out of sight, below the radar screen because it may involve bending or even breaking the rules. We want internal entrepreneurs in our...