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On The Behavior Of Entrepreneurial Factor Supply To The Firm, Nicos Zafiris
On The Behavior Of Entrepreneurial Factor Supply To The Firm, Nicos Zafiris
The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance
This paper draws on an existing, but little used, approach to the choices governing the supply of ‘entrepreneurial’, in the sense of ‘residually remunerated’, resources to an enterprise, especially post start up. It focuses in particular on the hybrid ‘own factor demand/supply curve’ to the firm of Bronfenbrenner (1960), but attempts to treat such supply in conjunction with ‘contractual’ employment of resources, thus making use of gearing and portfolio concepts. To achieve this, it is found necessary for the hybrid schedule to be reinterpreted and recast as the locus of the relevant utility maximising choices. A model is presented which …