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Paper: eres2012_257
| Paper title: | Best practice, best fit, best model? Strategic configurations of corporate real estate management in Europe |
| Authors: | Annette Kämpf-Dern and Andreas Pfnür |
| Summary: | Corporates increasingly realize the impact of real estate management on reaching their company targets. Yet, they face the challenge to set up (“institutionalize”) their CREM activities effectively and efficiently. Help has been given by several studies that researched on issues such as “Which targets are most relevant for CREM?”, “Which role should CREM play?”, “Which ownership rate is optimal?”, or “Which outsourcing degree should be pursued?” that try to identify and communicate relevant best practices. But isolated best practices neglect that institutionalization should address the relevant set-up parameters holistically. A new study accomplished by the TU Darmstadt Real Estate Business Department in cooperation with Corpus Sireo Asset Management Commercial shows that there are some strategic trends in the institutionalization of CREM that can be seen as best practices. But more importantly it turns out that searching for a single “best model” would be futile. Instead, parameters like regional and industry context, size, internationality, company strategy and control systems, hierarchical integration of CREM, etc. are identified that need to be configured in a way that ensures “best fit”. Unfortunately, the sheer number of theoretically possible configuration alternatives points out that comprehensive “best fit” models of CREM institutionalization will be company specific. On the other hand, some parameter constellations feature a better fit than others, thus giving first hints for strategically viable configurations of CREM. Summarized, the study identifies the relevant parameters to institutionalize CREM and organizes them in a “CREM map”. It results in hypotheses about the interaction between those parameters and their impact on corporate target achievement. Configuration theory (Miller/Friesen 1984) lays the base of the considerations. Empirically, in-depth interviews with large European corporates are analyzed with the methodology of qualitative data analysis (QDA). |
| Type: | normal paper |
| Year of publication: | 2012 |
| Series: | ERES:conference |
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| Citation: | Annette Kämpf-Dern and Andreas Pfnür (2012). Best practice, best fit, best model? Strategic configurations of corporate real estate management in Europe. 19th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, http://itc.scix.net/paper/eres2012_257 |
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