Conference paper
The role of decision-maker preferences in tenancy selection of CBD office accommodation - preliminary literature review
Conference Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society 9th Annual Conference
Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Annual Conference, 9th (Brisbane, Australia, 2003)
Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (P R R E S)
2003
Abstract
The literature and anecdotal evidence suggests that that there is more to tenancy selection (firm location) than the profit maximisation drive that traditional neo-classical economic location theory suggests. In the first instance these models assume property markets are rational and perfectly competitive; the CBD office market is clearly neither rational nor perfectly competitive. This fact alone relegates such models to the margins of usefulness for an industry that seeks to satisfy tenant demand in order to optimise returns on capital invested. Acknowledgment of property market imperfections are universally accepted to the extent that all contemporary texts discuss the lack of a coherent centralised market place and incomplete and poorly disseminated information processes as fundamental inadequacies which characterise the property market inefficiencies. Less well researched are the facets of the market which allow the observer to determine market activity to be significantly irrational. One such facet is that of 'decision maker preferences'. The decision to locate a business operation at one location as opposed to another seems ostensibly a routine choice based on short, medium and long term business objectives. These objectives are derived from a process of strategic planning by one or more individuals whose goal is held to be to optimise outcomes which benefit the business (and presumably those employed within it). However the decision making processes appear bounded by how firms function, the institutional context in which they operate, as well as by opportunistic behaviour by individual decision makers who allow personal preferences to infiltrate and 'corrupt' the process. In this way, history, culture, geography, as well as institutions all become significant to the extent that these influence and shape individual behaviour which in turn determine the morphology of individual preferences, as well as providing a conduit for them to take effect. This paper exams historical and current literature on the impact of individual behaviour in the decision making process within organisations as a precursor to an investigation of the tenancy decision making process within the CBD office market. Literature on the topic falls within a number of research disciplines, philosophy, psychology and economics to name a few. Here, the author limits the review to writings which fall within the remit of strategic management and strategic leadership theory. Subsequent reviews will explore other areas to complete the picture.
Details
- Title
- The role of decision-maker preferences in tenancy selection of CBD office accommodation - preliminary literature review
- Authors
- Stuart Ross (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Conference Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society 9th Annual Conference
- Conference details
- Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Annual Conference, 9th (Brisbane, Australia, 2003)
- Publisher
- Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (P R R E S)
- Date published
- 2003
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449687202621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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