<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Real Estate development organizations are vulnerable to crises' events due to the complexity of the external environment, internal structure, and operation systems. This paper aims to present, analyze, and compare between two proposed approaches for managing development crises based on system dynamics methodology. Twenty crises' scenarios are identified in order to be utilized in the analysis process of two approaches. These approaches are the conceptual approach and the scenario-based approach. The conceptual approach provides a framework to manage crises in a broad manner using Mitroff's model. The scenario-based approach uses crisis event characteristics to specify its containment policy. The crises' characteristics are identified by analyzing courses with time, classifying attributes, and specifying archetypes. The outcome of the analysis process for both approaches should guide developers and upgrade the quality of their decision in selecting adequate containment policies.</p></abstract>

Real Estate development organizations are vulnerable to crises' events due to the complexity of the external environment, internal structure, and operation systems. This paper aims to present, analyze, and compare between two proposed approaches for managing development crises based on system dynamics methodology. Twenty crises' scenarios are identified in order to be utilized in the analysis process of two approaches. These approaches are the conceptual approach and the scenario-based approach. The conceptual approach provides a framework to manage crises in a broad manner using Mitroff's model. The scenario-based approach uses crisis event characteristics to specify its containment policy. The crises' characteristics are identified by analyzing courses with time, classifying attributes, and specifying archetypes. The outcome of the analysis process for both approaches should guide developers and upgrade the quality of their decision in selecting adequate containment policies.

System Dynamics Approaches in Managing Real Estate Development Crises: Conceptual versus Scenario-Based

Structural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

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Real Estate development organizations are vulnerable to crises' events due to the complexity of the external environment, internal structure, and operation...

System Dynamics Approaches in Managing Real Estate Development Crises: Conceptual versus Scenario-Based

Publicado en línea: 31 mar 2020

Páginas: 381 - 407

Recibido: 31 may 2019

Aceptado: 09 ago 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25019/mdke/7.3.07

Palabras clave
crisis management, system dynamics, real estate development, What-if scenario, system archetypes

© 2019 Amr Abdel-Latif et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

System Dynamics Approaches in Managing Real Estate Development Crises: Conceptual versus Scenario-Based

Publicado en línea: 31 mar 2020

Páginas: 381 - 407

Recibido: 31 may 2019

Aceptado: 09 ago 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25019/mdke/7.3.07

Palabras clavecrisis management, system dynamics, real estate development, What-if scenario, system archetypes

© 2019 Amr Abdel-Latif et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
crisis management, system dynamics, real estate development, What-if scenario, system archetypes