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The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Sharon Gifford

    1. Rutgers University, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Entrepreneur in Economic Theory

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 1-15

  3. Limited Attention

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 17-25

  4. Allocating Limited Entrepreneurial Attention

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 27-56

  5. Innovation, Firm Size and Growth

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 57-77

  6. Career Choice

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 79-84

  7. Optimally Incomplete Contracts

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 85-98

  8. The Internalization of Transactions

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 99-110

  9. The Role of the Venture Capitalist

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 111-125

  10. Independent Contractors

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 127-136

  11. Conclusion

    • Sharon Gifford
    Pages 137-146

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 147-163
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About this book

The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention examines the implications of allocating limited entrepreneurial attention among activities or projects. This book maintains that attention is simultaneously limited in that a decision maker can pay attention to only one thing at a time, and entrepreneurial in that it may be allocated to evaluating a potential new project for possible adoption. However, since the outcome of the allocation of attention is not certain, the number of projects among which attention can be allocated is stochastic and the maximum number of projects is endogenously determined by the optimal allocation of limited entrepreneurial attention and describes the implications of this analysis for a number of economic problems.

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`... it is a breakthrough in showing how the techniques of optimality analysis can be applied ... recommending unequivocally that anyone interested in the theory of the firm, or economic growth or the role of the entrepreneur read this valuable book. It offers important new insights, provides useful analytic tools and contributes materially to our understanding this important subject.'
Small Business Economics, 14 (2000)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rutgers University, USA

    Sharon Gifford

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention

  • Authors: Sharon Gifford

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5605-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8339-0Published: 31 October 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7564-7Published: 04 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5605-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 163

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship, Management, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Microeconomics

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