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Knowledge Foundations, Issue 3 - March 2021
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Knowledge Foundations, Issue 5 - May 2021
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PropTech Education Integration Framework (PEIF): Integrating Innovation and Digital Technology in Real Estate Higher Education
Get PDFThe accelerated growth of digitisation in real estate
operations and practice has led to the emergence of
a contemporary real estate specialist area commonly
referred to as “PropTech”. Despite the tremendous
growth in the deployment of digital technologies and
IT systems to solve real estate problems, there has
been a disproportionate growth in scholarly work,
particularly in PropTech education.
The higher educational system is a major real estate
education vehicle; therefore, integrating PropTech
in real estate higher education has the potential to
further transform the PropTech space. This creates
real estate professionals with adequate knowledge,
skills and behaviours through exposure to PropTech
which can then be applied in practice. There is
currently no evidence-base through which PropTech
can be integrated in the real estate higher education
curriculum. Additionally, there is no PropTech
pedagogical and practical framework that can guide
educators to provide teaching and learning support
to real estate students in higher education.
Creating a PropTech education integration plan and
pedagogical framework has the potential to provide
real estate students with the requisite knowledge
and skills required to get actively involved in
PropTech and to develop tools to improve the various
real estate operational and market inefficiencies. This
research, therefore, develops a framework through
which PropTech, its underlying mechanism and
other real estate innovations can be efficiently and
effectively integrated in real estate higher education
curriculum. Furthermore, the research provides
relevant pedagogical and practical considerations
that can support the integration pla
Systems-Thinking theory: Decision making for sustainable workplace transformations
Get PDFThe transition from the traditional workplace management paradigms to a sustainable management paradigm can be hindered or advanced depending on the societal value perspectives. A deeper understanding of the interrelated consequences on sustainability can improve decision-making and impact on the perceptions of value, which in turn can contribute to advancing the sustainable management paradigm. This, therefore, requires evaluation of attitudes and expectations with regards to workplace management strategies and the mapping of divergent internal and external stakeholders’ perspectives.
Systems-thinking presents an opportunity to engage with ‘systems-agents’ to bridge the gap between technological initiatives and existing practices to engender sustainable organisational workplace strategies, through its properties of interconnectedness and comprising of ‘system-components’. Transdisciplinarity is a uniquely capable and necessary approach to address complex and difficult societal problems where there are interactions between human and natural systems at different scales, including time, space, and human institutions.
This chapter highlights the benefits of using systems-thinking and a transdisciplinary framework to analyse the dynamics of emerging agile workplace strategies, allowing relevant ‘systems-agents’ to visualise the consequences of workplace management strategies aiding in changes at individual and collective levels. In broad terms, this chapter emphasises a pathway for increasing the success of sustainable transformations
Stakeholder preference mapping: the case for built heritage of Georgetown, Malaysia
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While there is an established body of literature that discusses the importance of stakeholder management, and also the need for involvement of all stakeholders so that all values of a heritage site can be captured in a heritage management plan, the concepts are not generally developed in ways that make them useful in practice. This research seeks to bring greater clarity to the practice of stakeholder engagement in built heritage, so that organisations can manage their stakeholders in ways that meet their strategic goals. This study proposes a novel method to identify stakeholders, a stakeholder preference mapping approach, which will depict their influence on decisions based on a of power-interest scale.
Design/methodology/approach
This research posits a stakeholder preference mapping approach. Virtual Stakeholder Groups (VSG) were identified and stakeholder's significance impacts were measured using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 to determine in-depth consideration of each stakeholder's power and interest against differing stages of a heritage project. Participants were convened through a 5-day workshop, consisting of 20 Malaysian and 19 international participants (80% academics and 20% Malaysian civil servants). The Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis (MADA) technique was then used to demonstrate how stakeholder identification and analysis can be used to help heritage teams meet their mandates.
Findings
The research identified eight virtual VSG (Extremist, Expert, Economic, Social, Governance and Tourists) and their scale of power-interest influence at different stages of the heritage management process. The findings reveal varying levels of engagement from each of the different groups of stakeholders at each work stage – with Stage 5 (Construction) being the least engaged.
Originality/value
It is anticipated that through stakeholder preference mapping, heritage teams can increase the robustness of their strategies by identifying and effectively managing the important concepts; heritage teams can effectively manage the interface between the many (often competing) demands of differing stakeholders. Using Georgetown as a case study, the research team were able to delineate the interaction and interplay between the various stakeholders in the complex decision-making processes for a UNESCO heritage site. Applying the RIBA 2013 Plan of Work as a framework to the heritage management process enables a formalised mapping approach to the process
Knowledge Foundations, Issue 8 - August/September 2021
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Knowledge Foundations, Issue 6 - June 2020
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Emerging Agile Workplace Strategies in Hong Kong
Get PDFPurpose: Agile working, also known as activity-based working (ABW) has gained interest from
both business and academia. Agile working allows employees to work flexibly, choosing and
switching between different non-assigned workstations, with varying degrees of privacy,
depending on the task they are working on. The aim of this study is to investigate how corporate
drivers and individual preferences for agile working meet. In contrast to places where agile
working concepts have been studied extensively, such as the Netherlands, (see Hoendervanger et
al., 2016; Appel-Meulenbroek et al., 2015; De Been and Beijer, 2014) this study focuses on an
under-researched region, that of Hong Kong.
Theory: ‘Systems-thinking’ describes processes that are involved when an organisation
transforms from one phase into another. This process takes place at both an organisational as well
as at individual levels. The implementation of a workplace concept involves a physiological as
well as a psychological change, and the ‘System’ only operates when both individual and
corporate levels align in their approach and implementation (Thakore et al., 2020).
Design/ methodology/ approach: A transdisciplinary lens was applied using mixed methods,
combining quantitative and qualitative research techniques. Data collection and analysis were
carried out using a combination of a survey questionnaire (systems knowledge) and semi�structured interviews (target knowledge). The research findings are developed to inform the
emerging trends (transformation knowledge) that are significant for relevant stakeholders.
Findings: The changing nature of work, productivity and wellness were found to be key drivers
for implementation of agile workplace strategies at corporate level, whereas preferences at
individual level were found to be positively associated with an individual's exposure level to
them. Furthermore, internal constraints such as lack of time and resources were found to limit the
efforts of organisations in investing and monitoring impacts and outcomes of agile working,
highlighting the need for further research in this area.
Originality/ value: This research is undertaken in the context of Hong Kong where, like the
wider Chinese context, there is limited previous research on agile working. While there are a
number of non-academic reports, they do not explicitly consider this emerging innovative model
of working and its impact on business performance. The research is initiating a dialogue for
investigation for the benefit of business and academia alike
Knowledge Foundations, Issue 7 - July 2020
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Knowledge Foundations, Issue 9 - September 2020
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