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Employment System Mental Models in Organisation Building
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491_9783639123159
The biotechnology industry has been described as akey feature of the new knowledge economy and isexpected to impact on the lives of almost everyone. The majority of biotechnology firms are founded byscientists and their organisations are characterisedby high human capital density. The focus of this bookis on how founders of biotechnology companiesorganise and build the employment system in theirstart-up ventures.This book adopts an integrative cognitive methodologyin studying the founders role in the employmentsystem creation within their new ventures. It setsout to examine the vagaries of building biotechnologyventures around people and sets out a framework forunderstanding the organisation building process fromthe entrepreneurs point of view.Based on an in-depth study of three biotechnologyfirms and their founders, this book examines theorganisation building and human resource strategiesof high technology entrepreneurs. In addition, thisbook explores methodological issues inherent inunderstanding the cognitions, strategies, andorganisation building of high technology entrepreneurs.
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