Meta-Corporate Real Estate Management: Some preliminary thoughts

Purpose: This paper advances the concept of meta-Corporate Real Estate Management (metaCREM) as an adjunct to existing knowledge work in the field. It argues for its existence and relevance, and suggests a number of areas where research with such a focus could occur to advance knowledge in the field.<br/>Method: The method is what might be...

Smart tools on campus: a literature study connecting real estate management objectives and positioning technologies

One of the long-standing issues in the field of corporate real estate management is the alignment of an organisation’s real estate to its corporate strategy. Despite extensive research, existing approaches have not had much uptake in practice and fall short in a number of aspects (H 2011). The hypothesis in this paper is that indoor positioning...

Managing the workplace in a globalized world: The role of national culture in workplace management

Purpose: to provide a better insight into the role of national cultures on the management and design of workplaces of multinationals in different countries.<br/>Design/methodology/approach: This explorative study is based on an extensive literature review of dimensions of national culture in connection to corporate real estate management,...

Real estate added value and decision-making in hospital infrastructure

This paper explores the concept of adding value to corporate performance by real estate, and how this concept could be applied in decision-making processes for new hospital infrastructure. A literature review forms the starting point for interviews carried out with hospitals‘ CEOs on how real estate added value is perceived and used in design...

Ways to study corporate real estate management in healthcare: An analytical framework

Since 2008, after 35 years of a publicly supported healthcare real estate budget system, Dutch healthcare organisations have become financially responsible for the profits and risks of their real estate investment. Furthermore the Dutch healthcare system is in transition towards a regulated market system with growing competition between...