Incorporation of Real Estate in Corporate Strategy - The Ghanaian experience (Part 1)
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Any business enterprise ceteris paribus is in to make profit and minimise losses save a charity. Hence the activities and the management of the people are directed towards an end, towards certain goals (Mullin, 1999). However the organisation’s real estate decisions and would be plausible if such are geared towards supporting the overall business objectives of the organisation in question. In that regard, the objectives could be realised if conscious effort is made of how the real estate strategy support corporate strategy coupled with the sub-strategies for component elements of the organisation and then in turn how specific real estate operating decisions support the real estate strategy. Hence it is imperative that the organisations must ensure that its corporate business goals consciously align with its real state, construction and facilities programme. It is then that the above goals would be realised
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Nkansah-asamoah, C. K. & Tumwesigye, G.. (2012). Incorporation of Real Estate in Corporate Strategy - The Ghanaian experience (Part 1). Journal of Business and Retail Management Research, Volume 02 Issue 1.
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