Process of Talent Acquisition in Startups—Conceptualization and Implications on Future Research

Entrepreneurs and their Startups play an important role in the growth of the developing economies. Also important is the knowledge on capability that they acquire through talent acquisition at different phases of the enterprise. Talent acquisition is a process that involves actors, factors (causes and needs), activities or event, outcomes, patterns and the sequences. While entrepreneur remain the central actor in this process, Theory of Causation explains the causal factors leading to the desired results of events of talent acquisition. Reference is made to the historical events as proposed by the Path Dependence Theory so as to explain the presence and/or rationale of the absence of patterns in the process. This provides to set the agenda for future research on talent acquisition in Startups including the research methodologies.