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An Examination of Business Occupier Relocation Decision Making: Distinguishing Small and Large Firm Behaviour

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This paper explores how business occupiers decide whether and where to relocate. It captures the experience and behaviour of a range of sizes and types of business occupier and subjects their decision‐making processes to detailed scrutiny. A linear three‐stage decision model is used to sequence and structure interviews with individuals who have intimate involvement with the relocation of 28 firms and organizations in Tyne and Wear, in the north‐east of England. The ‘constant comparative’ method is used to analyse the interview data, from which emerges 18 key concepts, comprising 51 characteristic components. Using an axial approach, these are organized into 10 cross‐cutting themes that represent the main areas of consideration or influence on the thinking of the people involved in determining whether a firm or organization should relocate and, if so, where to. The resulting analysis finds that organizations adopt varying degrees of sophistication when making relocation decisions; small firms are more inclined to make decisions based on constrained information; larger organizations adopt a more complex approach. Regardless of firm size, key individuals exert considerable influence over the decision‐making process and its outcome.

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  • Paul Greenhalgh, 2008. "An Examination of Business Occupier Relocation Decision Making: Distinguishing Small and Large Firm Behaviour," Journal of Property Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(2), pages 107-126, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jpropr:v:25:y:2008:i:2:p:107-126
    DOI: 10.1080/09599910802605368
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    1. Matti Christersson & Peggie Rothe, 2014. "How far and Finnish HQ’s have relocated? - The role of short distance relocations in Finnish HQ moves," ERES eres2014_154, European Real Estate Society (ERES).
    2. Yasmin Mohd Adnan & Nor Adibah Mohd Arif & Muhammad Najib Razali, 2022. "Exploring Green Office Building Choices by Corporate Tenants in Malaysia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-23, November.
    3. Yauheniya Barkun & Ewa Glińska & Katarzyna Dębkowska, 2021. "Differentiation of regional attractiveness for gaining talents in the context of place branding theory," Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 17(1), pages 78-92, March.
    4. Ingrid Nappi-Choulet & Aurelien Decamps, 2013. "Can Sustainability Enhance Business District Attractiveness? A Survey of Corporate Property Decisions in France," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(16), pages 3283-3304, December.
    5. Wang, Weifang, 2021. "Nuanced insights into land buyer perceptions of engaging in rural land transactions from a cost perspective: Evidence from China’s emerging rural land market," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    6. Kevin Muldoon-Smith & Paul Greenhalgh, 2017. "Situations Vacant: A Conceptual Framework for Commercial Real Estate Vacancy," ERES eres2017_341, European Real Estate Society (ERES).
    7. Paul Greenhalgh & Helen King, 2013. "Developing an Indicator of Property Market Resilience—Investigating the Potential of GIS to Analyse Business Occupier Displacement and Property Market Filtering: A Case Study of Tyne and Wear," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(2), pages 372-390, February.
    8. Emine Mine Thompson & Paul Greenhalgh & Kevin Muldoon-Smith & James Charlton & Michal Dolník, 2016. "Planners in the Future City: Using City Information Modelling to Support Planners as Market Actors," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 1(1), pages 79-94.
    9. Conroy, Tessa & Deller, Steven & Tsvetkova, Alexandra, 2016. "Regional business climate and interstate manufacturing relocation decisions," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 155-168.

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