, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature …'s Business Structure Database (BSD), with data on management practices collected in face-to-face interviews from the HR Managers …-the-job training is the only management practice that is robustly and significantly associated with higher employment growth, increased …

A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM … characterizes 'high performance work systems' (HWPS) and 'strategic human resource management' (SHRM). Although the HPWS effect on …