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.

这一极具独创性的参考工具是针对人们日益认识到对创业精神和人力资源管理之间的相互关系知之甚少而设计的。它特别关注风险企业出现和发展的“人”方面，对人力资源管理在小型企业和创业企业中所起的作用提供了独特的见解。来自美国、英国、加拿大、澳大利亚和欧洲的新学者和老牌学者组成了一个多元化的国际小组，贡献了原创的理论和实证章节。然后讨论了创业企业研究中的理论和方法的基本问题，以及创业企业和小企业背景下的具体人力资源管理问题。