2013
DOI: 10.1108/jcre-11-2012-0023
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Real estate decision making as actor networks

Abstract: Purpose -Sound real estate decisions are both financially and strategically essential to corporate success. Given their importance, this paper aims to illustrate how the actor network theory (ANT) can be a valuable alternate lens to bounded rational and political perspectives in providing insights into corporate real estate decision-making processes. Design/methodology/approach -This exploratory investigation uses a case study approach to retroactively examine the real estate decision-making process over five … Show more

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“…For example, a project manager’s interest in time management is inscribed into a programme. Thus, non-humans are not neutral and, as Grabowski and Mathiassen (2013, p. 146) express, they “act upon others just as others act upon them”. However, mediators intervene during the development process and impact the stability of networks.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…For example, a project manager’s interest in time management is inscribed into a programme. Thus, non-humans are not neutral and, as Grabowski and Mathiassen (2013, p. 146) express, they “act upon others just as others act upon them”. However, mediators intervene during the development process and impact the stability of networks.…”
Section: Results and Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…ANT provides a platform from which it can be understood how connections between actors with diverse interests are formed, negotiated and maintained to create a network (Grabowski and Mathiassen, 2013, p. 139; Rydin, 2013, p. 25). ANT’s focus on the process of network formation highlights its applicability to property development research, given property development encompasses a variety of actors with diverse motives who are required to work together.…”
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confidence: 99%
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