Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the provision of formal land and building rights provides incentives to poor households to invest in their property in urban Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approach – To test the hypothesis a natural quasi-experimental design was...

Environmental issues have gained increasing attention in Singapore because of its small size and lack of natural resources. Since the 1970s, the Ministry of the Environment has striven to make Singapore environmentally‐friendly. The 2000 Global Competitiveness Report published by the World...

Purpose – To examine how an incomplete and biased legal/regulatory framework governing the allocation of property rights within a residential community in Hong Kong blocks the natural choice of a market contractual arrangement for the governance of the community as well as the management...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to theorise on the nature of property management broadly understood as resource management and demonstrate the actual and potential contribution of innovative property management to sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is...

Purpose – To re‐examine the role of property management from an institutional economics perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The role of property management is explored by asking why property management has emerged from the first principle. Then, an analytical framework for property...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe conventional top‐down planning as applied to land markets – and its limitations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper includes a brief survey of recent literature that sheds light on the argument and that puts property management into...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the intellectual pre‐conditions for meaningful debate about resource management of the sea and its contents. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is historical and theoretical. Findings – The argument contends that because of the...

Is China′s “land use rights” legislation which distinguishes transferable “land use rights” and inalienable “land ownership”, a novel concept unknown to human kind before, or a pragmatic reversion to the private property rights system abolished by the communist revolution?...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study how the central government can use well-known game-theoretical concepts in order to stimulate provision of local public facilities. Design/methodology/approach The authors use the classical adverse selection framework to discuss how the central...