All Outputs (5)

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. Palgrave Macmillan

In this chapter we seek to take up the challenge posed by the book’s editors, to reframe HRM in SMEs. We do this by considering employment regulation as a management challenge for small firms. We take this ‘management challenge’ approach to explore h... 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.

Freelance work (2023)
Book Chapter
Mallett, O., & Wapshott, R. (2023). Freelance work. In S. Johnstone, J. K. Rodriguez, & A. Wilkinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management (140-141). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378841.F.13

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

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.