Thesis supervisor: Sára Csillag
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Budapesti Business Shoool Abbreviation of location of studies: BGE
Description of the research topic:
Traditionally human resouce management literature examines HR issues (as selection, performance appraisal, compensation, human resource development, etc.) in the case of large, generally multinational corporations: as Iles and Yolles (2004) point to it, research efforts are oriented towards atypical (large) organizations, not typical small ones. As Nolan and Garavan (2015) concludes that although HRM in SMEs has received significant attention in policy level and in the popular press, the empirical research remains modest, the existing literature is fragmented and of mixed quality. Some of the potential research questions could be: what kind of factors influence the formal and informal HRM practices of the SME-s? What kind of industrial patterns (of any) can be fidentified connected to HRD practice of SME-s? How can we connect life cycle teories and HRM practices of smll firms?