... as core operational capabilities. Multi-asset owners tend to have a vertically disintegrated operating model outsourcing fund, asset, property and facilities management. Investing institutions such as fund houses and specialist real estate investment advisors seem to have converged upon a common hybrid...

...Peter Palm Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify factors on property management level for analysing incentives for an effective property management in an outsourced setting. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on an interview study of a set of three real estate-owning...

...Dubem Ikediashi; Onuwa Okwuashi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate and conceptualise significant factors influencing decision to outsource facilities management (FM) services in Nigeria’s public hospitals. Design/methodology/approach – Data for this study were collected...

...Terence Y.M. Lam Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the economic forces influencing the outsourcing process of property management services, and investigate how these forces should be applied in order to maximize the productive efficiency and performance quality, thus ensuring...

...Sadi Assaf; Mohammad A. Hassanain; Abdul‐Mohsen Al‐Hammad; Ahmed Al‐Nehmi Purpose The objectives of this paper are to identify the critical factors that influence the decision to outsource maintenance services in public Saudi Arabian universities, and to investigate the relative importance of each...

...Terence Y.M. Lam Purpose This study seeks to investigate the actual impact of management practices on performance quality of the outsourced professional housing maintenance services in Hong Kong. Much of the literature is theoretically based and there is a knowledge gap in empirical confirmatory...

...) the PFI has: … opened doors to the City and financial sector generally, leading to innovative facilities and property solutions being better understood and considered in both public and private domains. The large‐scale outsourcing of public infrastructure through the Private Finance...

... be structured? What are the risks, drivers and barriers? © MCB UP Limited 2002 Property Sale and leaseback Outsourcing Risk management The scope for new real estate occupation and investment vehicles that exists in the UK is unlikely to result in a universally applicable solution for all...

...R. Graham Examines the issues involved in securing a successful outsourcing contract: selecting a supplier, service provision, describing services,using services, changing services, and the termination of outsourcing. Discusses how these issues can be best incorporated in legal contractual terms...