Models for Young Firms [Archive.org URL]

In the first preliminary analysis of data on 100 firms collected by the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies (SPEC), researchers James Baron, Diane Burton, and Michael Hannan identify four distinct models of how young firms approach human resource issues. They call these models star, engineering, commitment, and factory and they can have a significant impact on a firm’s future.

Editor’s Note: this is an old article (early 1996 based on early 90’s data) and claims to be preliminary at that. I am not sure if there is an article updating this work somewhere (would like to see it if so) but anyway I think it’s probably still relevant and even if not, it’s thought-provoking…

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