Works
- Forbidden Fruit: An Analysis of Bootlegging, Uncertainty, and Learning in Corporate R&D, 1996
In Tactics of Organizational Politics
Ideas
Bootlegging. Bootlegging is innovative work that researchers carry out without formal authorization, usually on their own initiative and with discretionary resources. Augsdorfer studies how such work arises inside corporate research and development and how it contributes to innovation and learning under uncertainty.
What it explains
Augsdorfer explains how a working prototype built quietly within one's own discretion can carry an idea past a formal process that would have rejected it on paper.