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HRM as Challenge for the Top Management of Technology Start-Ups

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Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges

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This chapter deals with the challenges that Top Managers of technology start-ups face in regard to human resource management. Technological innovation is seen as main driver of our economy. However, SMEs developing these high-tech products are widely neglected in the public discourse and in research. As human resource management in this setting is completely different to HRM carried out in HR departments of large firms, we raise awareness of HRM in technology start-ups, shed light on the characteristics of HRM in this context, present two case studies and identify their HRM practices, discuss strengths and weaknesses of identified practices, deal with the challenges for the Top Management regarding HRM in the growth process, and derive success factors for HRM in technology start-ups. In the end, we present the managerial and theoretical implications of our research.

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  1. Institute of Human Resource and Change Management, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Irina Koprax & Wolfgang H. Güttel

  2. OMS Objekt Management Service GmbH, Römerstraße 1, 4600, Wels, Austria

    Eva-Maria Mayrhofer

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Koprax, I., Mayrhofer, EM., Güttel, W.H. (2014). HRM as Challenge for the Top Management of Technology Start-Ups. In: Machado, C., Davim, J. (eds) Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02618-3_3

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