Ensuring Engagement and Commitment to Innovative Behaviours in High-Growth, Medium-Sized Businesses

While recent research has focused on how both small entrepreneurial and large well-established firms can exploit human resource management (HRM) to foster innovation, mid-sized businesses (MSBs 1) experiencing rapid growth have been largely missing from the discussion (e.g. CBI, 2011; Stam, 2010). MSBs, despite their small share of the national and international business population, contributed €1.03 trillion to the European economy in 2014. Thus, it is important to understand how innovation and growth can be sustained in MSBs.