Title: Real estate management: what boundaries? A European approach

Authors: Gianpaolo Abatecola; Roberto Cafferata

Addresses: Faculty of Economics, Department of Studies on Business, Government, Philosophy, Rome 'Tor Vergata' University, Via Columbia 2, 00133 Rome, Italy ' Faculty of Economics, Department of Studies on Business, Government, Philosophy, Rome 'Tor Vergata' University, Via Columbia 2, 00133 Rome, Italy

Abstract: Real estate has always played a key role in the economy of industrialised countries. To date, fine-tuned studies have started to grow and develop to inform about the evolution of real estate management as a per se discipline for education, research and practice. Increasing reviews have also systematised what is hot and what is not in terms of research trends within this field. However, what seems to remain largely unaddressed is the appropriate conceptual and methodological classification of the boundaries delimiting the field itself. We do believe that this gap is not minor for both the research and practice, in that it negatively affects the possibility of conducting appropriate analyses from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. We have thus conceived this article as an intended contribution to filling the stated gap.

Keywords: real estate management; Europe; research; education.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGSB.2014.067501

International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 2014 Vol.6 No.3/4, pp.163 - 176

Received: 29 Mar 2014
Accepted: 06 Nov 2014
Published online: 27 Feb 2015 *

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