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Small business stories in the formation of enterprise policy: a narrative policy analysis of the UK Bolton Committee (2024)
Journal Article
Wapshott, R., & Mallett, O. (2025). Small business stories in the formation of enterprise policy: a narrative policy analysis of the UK Bolton Committee. Small Business Economics, 64, 2223–2238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00966-4

Enterprise policy, which seeks to stimulate start-ups and support small businesses, attracts significant investment from government and shapes the context for entrepreneurs. Researchers have begun to study the processes underlying the formulation of... Read More about Small business stories in the formation of enterprise policy: a narrative policy analysis of the UK Bolton Committee.

Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy (2024)
Journal Article
Mallett, O., Wapshott, R., & Wilson, N. (2024). Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 30(7), 1950-1968. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-04-2023-0431

Purpose: This research paper generates new insights into the challenges of implementation in women’s enterprise policy. It argues that organisations involved in policy implementation need to be understood as operating in a context of institutional pl... Read More about Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy.

Work engagement and the impact of a social identity crafting approach to leadership: a case from Africa’s air transport industry (2024)
Journal Article
Theoharakis, V., Wapshott, R., & Cham, L. (2024). Work engagement and the impact of a social identity crafting approach to leadership: a case from Africa’s air transport industry. Personnel Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-02-2023-0099

Purpose: Managers of public organizations in liberalized sectors face the dual imperative of retaining skilled employees who might be poached by commercial competitors and improving service performance levels without a free hand to invest resources.... Read More about Work engagement and the impact of a social identity crafting approach to leadership: a case from Africa’s air transport industry.

Regulation as a Management Challenge for Small Businesses (2024)
Book Chapter
Wapshott, R., & Mallett, O. (2024). Regulation as a Management Challenge for Small Businesses. In C. Nolan, & B. Harney (Eds.), Reframing HRM in SMEs: Challenges and Dynamics (23-49). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34279-0_2

In this chapter we seek to take up the challenge to reframe HRM in SMEs. We do this by considering employment regulation as a management challenge for small firms. We take a ‘management challenge’ approach to explore how advancing understanding of HR... Read More about Regulation as a Management Challenge for Small Businesses.

The impactful potential of critical realist methodologies in entrepreneurship studies (2023)
Book Chapter
Wapshott, R., & Mallett, O. (2023). The impactful potential of critical realist methodologies in entrepreneurship studies. In D. Higgins, P. Jones, C. Brentnall, & P. McGowan (Eds.), Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research: Seeing the world through the eyes of those who research (57-72). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-724620230000017005

This chapter argues for the unrealised potential value of methodologies derived from a critical realist research philosophy in the field of entrepreneurship studies. Critical realism offers methodological alternatives that, through the generation of... Read More about The impactful potential of critical realist methodologies in entrepreneurship studies.

Self-employment (2023)
Book Chapter
Wapshott, R., & Mallett, O. (2023). Self-employment. In S. Johnstone, J. K. Rodriguez, & A. Wilkinson (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Human Resource Management (353-354). (Second Edition). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378841.S.7

Thoroughly revised and updated to include contemporary terms that have gained importance such as furlough, unconscious bias, platform work, and Great Resignation, this second edition of the Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management is an authoritativ... Read More about Self-employment.

Persisting and Reoccurring Liability of Newness: Entrepreneurship and Change in Small Enterprises (2022)
Book Chapter
Wapshott, R., & Mallett, O. (2022). Persisting and Reoccurring Liability of Newness: Entrepreneurship and Change in Small Enterprises. In D. Hyams-Ssekasi, & F. Agboma (Eds.), Entrepreneurship and Change: Understanding Entrepreneurialism as a Driver of Transformation (3-21). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07139-3_1

This chapter focuses on the challenges of entrepreneurship and change facing small enterprises. Developing Stinchcombe’s liability of newness concept to recognise the persisting and reoccurring liability of newness for small enterprises, Wapshott and... Read More about Persisting and Reoccurring Liability of Newness: Entrepreneurship and Change in Small Enterprises.

HRM in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (2021)
Book Chapter
Wapshott, R., & Mallett, O. (2021). HRM in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. In A. Wilkinson, T. Dundon, & T. Redman (Eds.), Contemporary Human Resource Management: Text and Cases. (Sixth Edition). SAGE Publications

Small Business, Big Government and the Origins of Enterprise Policy: The UK Bolton Committee (2021)
Book
Wapshott, R., & Mallett, O. (2021). Small Business, Big Government and the Origins of Enterprise Policy: The UK Bolton Committee. Routledge

The Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms (the Bolton Committee Report) was produced at a time of significant political change. The 1970s in the UK saw the beginning of the end for interventionism and ‘big government’ and the emergence of... Read More about Small Business, Big Government and the Origins of Enterprise Policy: The UK Bolton Committee.