International handbook of entrepreneurship and HRM [printed text] / Rowena Barrett, Editor ; Susan Mayson, Editor . - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2008 . - xi, 490 p. : ill. (b&w) ; 24 cm.
ISBN : 978-1-84980-050-1
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.

Class number:	658.303
Abstract:	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.
Contents note:	1. Introduction: at the intersection of entrepreneurship and human resource management Part 1 Theory and Research Methods 2. The nascent entrepreneur, business development and the role of human resources; 3. Entrepreneurship capital: a regional, organizational, team and individual phenomenon; 4. Interpretivist approaches to entrepreneurship Part 2 The nature of HRM in smaller and Entrepreneurial Firms 5. Human resource management as an entrepreneurial tool?; 6. The formality and informality of HRM practices in small firms; 7. Human resource management and corporate performance: evidence from UK and US small firms; 8. Human resource strategies of high-growth entrepreneurial firms; 9. The relationship between small firm growth and HRM practices; 10. Formalizing relationships? Time, change and the psychological contract in team entrepreneurial companies; 11. Growing pains: managing the employment relationship in medium-sized enterprises; 12. Paternalism and people management in a low-tech manufacturing company; 13. Barriers to growth in family-owned smaller businesses; 14. Human resource management in small and medium-sized enterprises in Jiangsu, China Part 3 Functional Aspects of HRM 15. Small firms' strategic stickiness and the impact of state interventions; 16. Becoming an employer; 17. Organizational attractiveness of small businesses; 18. The effect of small firms' recruitment practice portfolio composition on recruitment success; 19. Would using the psychological contract increase entrepreneurial business development potential?; 20. Daily learning, job design and problem-solving in SMEs; 21. Encouraging skills acquisition in SMEs; 22. Training and development: practices, definitions and desires; 23. The maturation of entrepreneurial careers; 24. Intention to quit: evidence from managers and professionals in small and medium-sized enterprises Index.