This highly original reference tool has been designed in response to the growing recognition that too little is known about the inter-section between entrepreneurship and human resource management. Paying particular attention to the 'people' side of venture emergence and development, it offers unique insights into the role that HRM plays in small and entrepreneurial firms. A diverse, international group of both new and established scholars from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Europe contribute original theoretical and empirical chapters. Foundational issues of theory and methodology in research on entrepreneurial firms as well as specific HRM issues in the context of entrepreneurial and smaller firms are then addressed."The Handbook" offers a unique insights into understanding the role of HRM in developing sustainable entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ventures as well as how HRM practices and procedures can be used to help navigate or indeed drive the changing landscape in smaller and entrepreneurial firms. Exploring the functional aspects and nature of managing HRM in new, small, growing, emerging and entrepreneurial firms, this fascinating Handbook will be not only be warmly welcomed by HRM students, researchers and academics, but also by HR practitioners and managers.
1 Introduction: at the intersection of entrepreneurship and human resource management by Rowena Barrett and Susan Mayson 1
Pt. I Theory and Research Methods
2 The nascent entrepreneur, business development and the role of human resources by Elizabeth Chell 21
3 Entrepreneurship capital: a regional, organizational, team and individual phenomenon by David Andretsch and Erik Monsen 47
4 Interpretivist approaches to entrepreneurship by Catherine Cassell and Sara Nadin 71
Pt. II The Nature of HRM in Smaller and Entrepreneurial Firms
5 Human resource management as an entrepreneurial tool? by Cinzia Dal Zotto and Veronica Gustafsson 89
6 The formality and informality of HRM practices in small firms by Rowena Barrett and Susan Mayson 111
7 Human resource management and corporate performance: evidence from UK and US small firms by Jonathan Michie and Maura Sheehan 137
8 Human resource strategies of high-growth entrepreneurial firms by Robert L. Heneman and Judith W. Tansky and S. Michael Camp 165
9 The relationship between small firm growth and HRM practices by Rowena Barrett and Susan Mayson and Niel Warriner 186
10 Formalizing relationships? Time, change and the psychological contract in team entrepreneurial companies by Lynn M. Martin and Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj and Charlotte Carey and Srikanth Sursani Reddy 205
11 Growing pains: managing the employment relationship in medium-sized enterprises by Susan Marlow and Amanda Thompson 224
12 Paternalism and people management in a low-tech manufacturing company by Jeff Flyman and Fraser Osborne and Sarah Jack 242
13 Barriers to growth in family-owned smaller businesses by Richard Harris and Renee Reid 260
14 Human resource management in small and medium-sized enterprises in Jiangsu, China by Li Xue Cunningham and Chris Rowley 285
Pt. III Functional Aspects of HRM
