Introduction: At the Intersection of Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Management

Abstract

Is there anything left to say?In recent years there has been a growing literature on human resource management (HRM) and smaller firms which has also encompassed firms that are growing and entrepreneurial.For example we have seen a special edition of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (Katz et al., 2000), two of Human Resource Management Review (Baron, 2003;Barrett and Mayson, 2006) and one of Human Resource Management (Huselid, 2003;Tansky and Heneman, 2003), with another of Human Resource Management (to be edited by Ribeiro, Roig and Tansky) scheduled for publication in 2010.In addition, symposia on the topic have been undertaken at the Academy of Management in 2005 (organized by Mayson) and in 2004 (organized by Hayton).Papers dealing with issues of HRM for new, small, growing and/or entrepreneurial firms have been presented at a range of different conferences, whether they are management oriented such as the Academy of Management (AoM) and its regional variants (for example, the British Academy of Management (BAM) or the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)), entrepreneurially focused ones like the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research conference or ones focused specifically on smaller firms such as the conferences of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in the UK or the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and its regional affiliates.With all these papers and all this discussion is there anything left to say? Well yes, we think there is and we are glad Edward Elgar agree with us!We believe there is much to say about the contribution of HRM to small and entrepreneurial firms.What has been said recently . . .In preparing this introduction, we updated our knowledge of the current literature including recent special issues to see if calls for more research at the intersection of human resource management and entrepreneurship had been taken up by scholars in the areas of HRM and entrepreneurship.

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