Tellusant Academic Papers Library
- 2024-09-24
- 12:30 pm
- Posted By: Tellusant
Tellusant’s work is anchored in science. We therefore write academic papers on topics relevant to our managed services.
Many of these papers are also available on the Social Services Research Network within the SSRN repository.
Where in the World Is the Market? The Income Distribution Approach to Understanding Consumer Demand in Emerging Countries
Finding, measuring and capturing market opportunities in emerging countries are critical tasks for multinational consumer goods companies.
Central to these tasks is the need to collect and analyze income distribution data within a globally coherent framework and to move beyond income metrics based on national averages.
The Consumer Impact of Pricing Action
Consumer goods companies have increasingly been in the news for raising prices in today’s high global inflationary environment.
With uncertainty about the true size and effect of these price increases, we examine how pricing is impacting both company volumes and consumer ability to pay on a global scale.
The Growth Tesseract: A Scientific View of Firms’ Growth Opportunities
This lightweight yet scientific paper explores the four ways a firm can grow: by increasing reach, breadth, depth, and value.
It builds on the traditions of Penrose, Williamson, Teece, Grossman and Hart, and others who explored vertical and lateral integration.
The scientific underpinning is found in Canback (2002): Bureaucratic Limits of Firm Size.
Toward an Integrated Strategy Development Framework: A New Synthesis Based on the Giants of the Past
The goal of this paper is to to take the most important contributions to strategy science since the late 1950s and integrate them into coherent perspective.
It brings together the ideas of Profs. Joe Bain, Michael Porter, Birger Wernerfelt, and Roger Martin. It then overlays these micro-economic contributions with societal, economic, and technological trends.
It thereafter adds a section on the process for developing strategies based on the framework.
A Lightweight Note on Success in Mergers and Acquisitions
This note summarizes, on two pages, findings on what drives success in corporate M&A.
It is intended as a prescriptive overview for executives contemplating a merger or acquisition, and to give a references for further investigation.
Do Diseconomies of Scale Impact Firm Size and Performance? A Theoretical and Empirical Overview
This paper is a summary of Dr. Canback’s doctoral dissertation below. It focuses on the quantitative, statistical aspects of his research.
Bureaucratic Limits of Firm Size: Empirical Analysis Using Transaction Cost Economics
This dissertation by Staffan Canback tests Oliver Williamson’s proposition that transaction cost economics can explain the limits of firm size.
Williamson suggests that diseconomies of scale are manifested through four interrelated factors: atmospheric consequences due to specialization, bureaucratic insularity, incentive limits of the employment relation and communication distortion due to bounded rationality.
Bureaucratic Limits of Firm Size: Practitioners’ Summary
This paper is a high-level, managerially-oriented summary of Dr. Canback’s disseration. It avoids the quantitative evidence and focuses on meaning.
When Does Vertical Integration Make Sense?
One of the most important aspects of strategy development is to determine the appropriate level of vertical integration. There are large risks associated with vertical integration as a strategy—complexity, significant capital commitments, difficulty to reverse course if the strategy does not work.
The Logic of Management Consulting, Part 1
This two-part article explores why management consultants and why they organize in independent firms. The intellectual foundation is transaction cost economics.
Part 1 summarizes the history of management consulting and reviews the literature.
The Logic of Management Consulting, Part 2
This two-part article explores why management consultants and why they organize in independent firms. The intellectual foundation is transaction cost economics.
Part 2 applies TCE to management consulting to explain why the boundary between consultants and their clients is drawn the way it is.
Forthcoming
Differential Equations Applied to Consumer Demand: The S-Curve Outcome
Analyzing Difficult Countries: The Example of The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Capital Stock Productivity
A Solution to the Dynamic PPP-to-USD Ratio Conundrum
Universal Profit Equation