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  title info:
    title: E-business and organizational partnerships in Corporate Real Estate
    sub title: a case study
  name:
    name part: Xia, Ge.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: viii, 57 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: E-business is transforming the business landscape and changing the roles and methods of Corporate Real Estate. In a Corporate Real Estate department in a large firm, a new and innovative strategy is used to manage their facilities - organizational partnership. This partnership is developed based on the traditional outsourcing but goes further than the old model. By focusing on closer relationships with a small number of partners, they have created an organizational partnership that adds value to all the participants. This new business model of organizational partnership raises a number of interesting questions with regard to the relationships between E-business and organizational partnerships in Corporate Real Estate. Based upon underlying theories introduced in prior studies, I hypothesize that E-business leads to organizational partnerships with closer relationships among fewer partners in Corporate Real Estate. This study examines the hypothesis in the context of a case study. The hypothesis is divided into a deductive logic chain that is composed of consequential links. Each of these links is an independent proposition that is based on the prior theories. The evidence from the case study is analyzed and used to test each of these links. The outcome of the analysis shows that E-business leads to increased importance of non-contractible factors in Corporate Real Estate, such as speed, quality, responsiveness and information sharing. These non-contractible factors in turn largely rely on the service providers' incentive to invest beyond the "letter of the contract". In order to provide incentives, Corporate Real Estate must reduce the number of service providers and develop closer relationships with them. The result is a trust-based organizational partnership. Finally, the proof of all the links leads to proof of the overall hypothesis by deduction. The findings from this study indicate that the strategy of organizational partnership helps to achieve objectives suc…
  note: by Ge Xia.
  note: "Major subject: Architecture".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-56).
  subject:
    topic: Major architecture
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2001-THESIS-X52
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2001-THESIS-X52
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