International Handbook of Entrepreneurship and HRM (Research Handbooks in Business and Management series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849800502 ISBN 13: 9781849800501

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This invaluable reference tool has been designed in response to the growing recognition that too little is known about the intersection 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 human resource management (HRM) plays in small and entrepreneurial firms.

A group of international scholars contribute theoretical and empirical chapters on specific HRM issues in the context of entrepreneurial and smaller firms. The Handbook offers a new understanding of the role of HRM in developing sustainable entrepreneurship and describes how HRM practices and procedures can be used to help navigate and, indeed, drive the changing landscape in these firms.

Exploring the functional aspects and nature of managing HRM in new, small, growing, emerging and entrepreneurial firms, this fascinating Handbook will not only be warmly welcomed by HRM students, researchers and academics, but also by HR practitioners and managers.

About this title

About the Author:

Rowena Barrett is Professor of Human Resource Management at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia and Susan Mayson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at Monash University, Australia.

Review:

'This highly original book focuses on human resource management issues in the context of entrepreneurial and small firms, including original theoretical and empirical chapters. . . the book offers a unique insight 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. It is a useful resource for many small firms, entrepreneurship and economic development researchers, and also for policy-makers and post-graduate students interested in these areas. It provides a starting point to consider a variety of issues with regard to HRM and, in this regard it is an interesting and useful handbook.' --- Qihai Huang, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849800502
• ISBN 13: 9781849800501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Barrett Rowena, Mayson Susan