Managing human resources in small organizations: What do we know?

Human resource management practices and learning for innovation in developing countries: pharmaceutical firms in Mexico

“…Subsequent studies have investigated the effects of these and related variables on firm's innovation performance across industries (Laursen and Foss 2003;Lorenz and Valeyre 2004). These studies show that innovative practices occur in heterogeneous backgrounds; they vary significantly across firms and countries (Cardon and Stevens 2004;Vinding 2004). Table 3.1 presents some relevant management variables distributed according to seven categories found in the literature.…”

The influence of the perceptions of institutional environment on entrepreneurial plans: exploring the moderating effects of firm age and firm size in Bulgarian enterprises

“…Younger firms often lack experience and, therefore, tend to rely on informal management systems and training practices (Cardon and Stevens, 2004). In addition, their lack of legitimacy within the industry is associated with difficulties to recruit employees (Cardon and Stevens, 2004). The positive perceptions of institutional environment may have disproportionately larger positive influence on entrepreneurial plans in older firms, because younger firms face relatively more internal and external obstacles and lack of legitimacy, which may impede them to formulate and undertake new plans despite their positive perceptions of institutional environment.…”

An Innovative Approach to Human Resource Management in Small and Medium Enterprises: The SHARPEN Project

“…One of the reasons why HRM might be a source of sustainable competitive advantage is that the advantages gained through HR become the firm's intangible assets that are valuable, rare and difficult to imitate [10]. Moreover, these intangible assets might be important to SMEs, because it is harder for SMEs to compete with larger firms in terms of other, tangible resources [11,12]. Furthermore, Koubek [13] states that HRM is more important in SMEs than in large firms.…”