House Price Indexes: Issues and Results

AREUEA is pleased to acknowledge the support of the National Association of REALTORS for this special issue on house prices. We are particularly grateful to John Tuccillo, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at NAR, for recognizing the importance of this emerging research area. The editors also acknowledge the support of their colleges at The Ohio State University and of the Homer Hoyt Institute.     

Adjustments in the Real Estate Market

AREUEA is pleased to acknowledge the support of the National Association of REALTORS in the preparation of this issue. We are particularly grateful to John Tuccillo, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at NAR, for recognizing the importance of this research area and encouraging these studies. The editors would also like to acknowledge the continuing support of their colleagues at The Ohio State University and of the Homer Hoyt Institute.     

Research on Real Estate Investment

AREUEA is pleased to acknowledge the financial support of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) whose members are listed on the preceding page. We also thank Mike Miles for his role in maintaining an excellent relationship between NCREIF and AREUEA over the years. Finally, the editors acknowledge the continuing financial support of their colleges at The Ohio State University and of the Homer Hoyt Institute.     

The First Twenty Years of AEEUEA

Editors' Note: At AREUEA's 1985 annual meeting, a special session was held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of AREUEA. The session was proposed by George Gau, the 1985 program chairman, and chaired by Patric H. Hender-shott, the 1985 president. George and Pat selected four past presidents to discuss the first four five-year periods of AREUEA's history. The presentations were so informative that the Board of Directors proposed publication in some form to preserve the historical record of AREUEA. With the financial assistance of the Homer Hoyt Institute and the efforts of Marc A. Weiss, we are pleased to publish a slightly edited version of the four presentations.
An appendix to this article lists the officers and members of AREUEA's Board of Directors since 1965 (any corrections should be drawn to the editors' attention). We note that four individuals have served on AREUEA's Board for a decade or longer: William B. Brueggeman, Hugh O. Nourse, Maury Seldin and Halbert C. Smith. All were president and either editor or secretary-treasurer.     

THE ENGINEERING ECONOMIST: AIMS AND SCOPE OF FOCUSED AREAS

The Engineering Economist is a refereed journal published jointly by the Engineering Economy Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). The journal publishes articles, case studies, surveys, book and software reviews, and readers' comments that represent current research, practice, and teaching involving problems of capital investment.

The journal seeks submissions in a number of areas, including, but not limited to, capital investment analysis, cost estimation and accounting, cost of capital, design economics, economic decision analysis, education, policy analysis (i.e., governmental), and research and development.

As noted in the editorial, we are celebrating the 50th volume of our journal and we are taking this opportunity to reinvigorate our purpose. This is to be facilitated with the designation of area editors assigned to specific submission focus areas. These areas are clearly defined below and the representative area editors are introduced. Their contact information is provided in case prospective authors have questions about potential submissions in prospective areas. However, all submissions should be sent to the editor-in-chief. The focus areas are listed alphabetically, followed by case study and book/software review submission guidelines. Following the definition of the areas are the new electronic submission guidelines for the journal.     

Chicago's Office Market: Price Indices, Location and Time

Conventional wisdom holds that overbuilding and high vacancy, coupled with curtailed tax benefits, have led to reduced office property values since the late 1980s. Yet assertions that office real estate values fell between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s are not supported everywhere by convincing evidence. This study offers a hedonic analysis of Chicago area office properties that sold from 1986 through 1993. Whereas earlier office market studies generally have been based on rents, this study focuses on variation in actual sale prices (although the prices were not adjusted for financing differences). The transaction-based index estimated here does not support the existence of a nominal office property price level decline beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. In fact, the results show an upward trend in office property values after 1986, with nominal declines in office market price levels occurring only in the latter portion of the study period.     

Organizational impacts of office automation

The author discusses the results of a research project carried out by Bell Canada to assess the organizational impacts of office automation technology. The project consisted of a detailed survey of the reactions of users of the NLS system developed by the Stanford Research Institute. The article includes an examination of the primary and secondary impacts of altered work modes and altered work hours and locations, and detailed attention is given to the question of the ‘portable office’.     

Why a New Journal?

Speaking both personally and officially, I am delighted to salute the appearance of this first issue of Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. Since my service as the first Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at Berkeley, I have retained a close personal attachment to the Institute and a sense of pride in its growing record of accomplishment. And because I am a student in the industrial relations field, I can speak with some personal conviction of the great need for this type of publication. As President of the University of California, I am pleased to see this new venture undertaken by the Institute of Industrial Relations, one of the University’s many important research and service organizations. The publication of new knowledge, insight, and scholarly speculation is an essential part of the advancement of learning. The free marketplace of ideas cannot operate effectively without the avenues of communication provided by the scholarly journals which serve every field of research. I am sure that Industrial Relations will prove a stimulating vehicle for the exchange and development of ideas about a highly significant segment of modern industrial society.     

Social support in the workplace between teleworkers,office‐based colleagues and supervisors

This paper draws upon the findings of qualitative interviews carried out with teleworkers, their office‐based colleagues and supervisory staff of a teleworking initiative introduced by a UK public sector local authority to explore workplace social support relationships. Our study found differences between office‐based and permanent teleworking staff in terms of social support. For teleworkers relationships at work are complex, with social support networks being established prior to working at home. By working from home, teleworkers were able to develop greater social support relationships with some colleagues, predominantly other teleworkers, while at the same time allowing them to distance themselves from negative work relationships. Overall, a social disconnection developed between teleworkers and office‐based staff. In contrast social support was more important for office‐based workers, who valued co‐worker relationships with other office‐based staff.     

Impact of office layout on communication in a science-driven business

Driving innovation and creativity has relied heavily on new information technologies in the last decade. Human capital has certainly had its importance, but how to coordinate human capital in order to push productivity in research and development without compromising individual initiative is still not well understood. In this paper, we provide results showing that geometry of workspace has indeed an impact on communication patterns and may thus be used as a means to drive both innovation and efficient research. In order to be creative, new knowledge has to be created. Communication facilitates knowledge creation. We try to close the bridge between areas of creation of tacit knowledge and transfer of knowledge highlighted by authors like Nonaka, Takeuchi, Konno, von Krogh and von Hippel with the area of communication patterns pioneered by Allen, Hatch, and Stryker, by considering face‐to‐face (FTF) communication as a first step for socialization, socialization as a means for knowledge creation. In this article, we compare two different office environments within the same site, same activity, same hierarchical level and same company: a traditional cell office area and a new multi‐space office, used by people who used to work in cell offices. We observed FTF communication patterns during 120 h in two areas and measured over 2,000 communication events. We found that people communicate three times more often in a multi‐space area than in a cell‐space area. We also found that the mean duration of communication events decreased from 9 to 3 min when transferring collaborators from a cell‐space to a multi‐space. Finally time spent without communication increased from 5% to 29% when going from cell‐offices to multi‐space areas – leaving more time for people to work and think on their own. And we found that most communication events during work time in the multi‐space took place at the work place and seldom or never in soft sitting areas installed for the purpose of communication.     

Power and the Japanese Ceo

This paper explores the sources of Japanese CEO power and the processes through which power is acquired. Japanese CEOs realise two types of power, positional and personal. Positional power derives from strategic contingencies which encompass the office CEO. It also arises from institutional dimensions of the office's role within an organisation and within society. Personal power has two basic components and is a consequence of Japanese human resource management processes which are predicated upon an internal labor market. Slow promotion and job rotation provide managers with the opportunity to acquire expert influence and to build extensive acquaintance networks. Promotions legitimise the acquisition of power. CEO power is moderated by factors which directly influence the extent of legitimacy which is accorded both the individual and the office.This research was funded through Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship. I wish to acknowledge the helpful comments of Allan Meyer, Mark Ramsmeyer, Kiyoaki Shiostugu, and two anonymous reviewers on earlier drafts of this article.     

Fourteen Years of Research in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management

The Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) has been an outlet for the publication of research on the Asia Pacific for 14 years. This paper seeks to track the range of papers that have been published in this time to identify research trends and issues. This is done to provide a broad overview of research done in the region, serve as a reference for APJM's editors and potential contributors for future research, and also traces the evolution of management scholarship in the region.     

海洋石油勘探开发重大技术研发项目质量管理实践与思考

研究总院是中国海洋石油总公司的勘探、开发、工程科学研究和决策研究的参谋机构。为公司业务提供技术支持,承担了大量国家级和公司级重大技术研发项目,面临着研究领域多,技术难度高,专业跨度大,研究时间紧迫,研究资源有限等诸多困难。为解决面临的这些困难,保证研究成果的质量,研究总院经过多年的探索和实践,按照ISO9001质量管理体系的要求,在对重大技术研发项目管理过程中,大胆进行实践和思考,逐步形成了一整套的对技术研发项目质量控制的管理方法和程序,取得了良好的效果。     

Intrametropolitan Location and Office Market Dynamics

Theory and evidence point to interdependency between office location decisions and dynamic growth paths. For example, clerical and administrative support employees are suburbanizing relatively rapidly in most markets in response to changes in technology and transportation. This paper tests the hypothesis that both cross-sectional and dynamic variables are important determinants of dynamic patterns and office market forecasts.
County Business Patterns data at the county and town levels indicate substantial spatial specialization (i.e., agglomeration) by type of office activity. But these agglomerations do shift over time, as indicated by the maintained hypothesis. Our econometric estimates suggest that the demand for office space in submarkets is responsive to agglomerations by type of industry as well as to growth in FIRE employment. The supply of office space is responsive to lagged expected demand.     

科研产品质量管理认识及实践

质量是企业生存和发展的第一要素,作为江汉油田采油工程技术支撑单位的采油工艺研究院来说,科研产品质量的优劣直接关系到企业的命运。在激烈的市场竞争中,如何做好产品的质量控制与管理是科研企业时刻面临的问题。主要从科研产品的研发过程、管理方法以及人员意识等方面阐述了科研企业如何控制和管理产品的质量。     

International system for scientific data exchange

A recently announced study entitled ‘International Data and Computer-Computer Communication for Scientific Cooperation’ forms part of the computer science research area of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). This study focuses on the establishment of an international information system via networking to facilitate exchange of data between multinational organisations.     

How to develop original,courageous ideas in business marketing research

Despite evidence of meticulous business-to business marketing research efforts, and the pleas of editors for truly original, ground-breaking research, there is still a shortage of original, courageous research ideas. To provide guidance to researchers and address this problem, we apply the OBC model (observe the world, bridge disciplines, and challenge assumptions and theories), proposed by Kock, Assaf, and Tsionas (2020). We discuss the three main and four blended strategies recommended by this model, and illustrate each of these strategies with examples drawn from the marketing literature. Our application of the OBC model offers actionable guidelines for generating original research ideas, as well as theoretical grounding for each element of the model. Given the publication pressure felt by young academic researchers, we hope that our discussion provides encouragement and guidance, which will result in original, courageous business-to-business marketing research.     

Past,present, and future business-to-business marketing research

This editorial summarizes both the development and impact of Peter LaPlaca, in terms of his work with and for the industrial and marketing purchasing research community, using several different perspectives. It also offers an overview of what (former) editors of other business-to-business marketing management journals think of Peter LaPlaca. Following that, this editorial briefly reviews dominant topics in Industrial Marketing Management.     

Rural internet connectivity

This research investigates Internet connectivity in rural regions, looking specifically at four states in the US. Access to the Internet has assumed new significance for commercial and political reasons, and remote and sparsely populated areas typically lack the telecommunications infrastructure for reliable and fast Internet connections. Even as government programs such as the federal E-rate provisions bring Internet connectivity for institutions such as schools and libraries under the government's universal service umbrella, more general Internet access to a broader community constituency has not been addressed within policy circles. Even the deployment of so-called “national” Internet services favors urban regions.Research associates Kyle Nicholas and Lisa Parker were instrumental in undertaking this research, as was financial support from Southwestern Bell and the Rural Policy Institute. The comments of an anonymous reviewer helped greatly.     

The dark side of office designs: towards de‐humanization

Recent research on flexible office designs have shown that open‐plan and/or flex offices may not have the expected effects in terms of employees’ productivity, well‐being, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and retention. In this article, we propose to consider that the feeling of de‐humanization may explain such dark side of office designs. Adopting a mixed methods approach, we administrated a quantitative survey to 534 employees working in a variety of office designs, and conducted 12 semi‐structured interviews among the respondents to the survey in order to investigate how they experienced their office designs, notably in terms of de‐humanization. Results showed that the three specific office designs under study (i.e. cell, open‐plan, and flex offices) are associated with different levels of de‐humanization and that this feeling of de‐humanization mediates their impact on employees’ job satisfaction, affective organizational commitment, extra‐role performance, psychological strains, and turnover intentions. Interviews’ analysis reveals three main mechanisms in the development of the feeling of de‐humanization in such office designs: a triple feeling of dispossession (of space, voice and professional mastery), a feeling of abandon and an injunction to adopt a modern behaviour.