Pro-active real estate decisions are affected by a variety of determinants: external factors, connected with the environment of the entity (technical, economic, social, legal, political, environmental and international dimensions) and the internal ones, connected with the entity itself.
External factors cannot be ignored but only accepted. Internal factors are resources (physical, financial and human) available to public administrations.
According to “Decision-making in corporate and municipal asset management: a literature review” (2013) the most significant for asset management decision making are: assets (technical condition, adequacy for the conducted operations, including the type, quantity/area); financial; human; corporate culture; quality of management processes (including corporate structure, management structure, strategies and plans).
In recent decade, according to
Bryson (2004) the public sector has developed a production process by a series of actions, actors, steps and/or flows; although in private sector, this managerial structure was already very common.
According to \citet*{articles} “backward mapping” - by Elmore - is an important public mapping precursor; the ouput is defined first, then the steps or events that might lead to it are traced. Other techniques are represented by "programme logic" based on a process from inputs to outputs and “intervention logic”, which maps a chain of causes and effects from initial policy implementation to expected impacts \citep*{booklet}.
Research has begun to investigate the current decision-making process defined by L. 191/2009. The decision-making process is divided into three sequential macro phases.
The first, every Public Administration (annually) calculates its allocative need by standards provided by Agenzia del Demanio (20/25 sqm/person), elaborating a proposal of space rationalization and then, transfering the information into PA-Ratio.
The Law does not express and suggest tools or ways in which each public administration must develop its own strategies and assessments.
In the second phase, Agenzia del Demanio verifies the proposal feasibility; tools and methods are not express here too. It is deduced that the considerations tare made under only quantitative savings of space (sqm/person) and rent (€).
Finally, Following the assessment, Agenzia del Demanio verifies funds and, in the case of a positive outcome, delivering financial support to the public administrations who so requested.
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