Journal Article10.1016/J.HRMR.2004.06.001
Managing human resources in small organizations: What do we know?
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TL;DR: This paper reviewed existing research on managing people within small and emerging firms and highlighted additional questions that have not yet been addressed, concluding that the existing literature presents an often-confounded relationship between size and age, between the issues important to small firms and the issues more relevant to young ones.
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About: This article is published in Human Resource Management Review. The article was published on 01 Sep 2004. The article focuses on the topics: Human resource management & New Ventures.
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