Abstract
Apartments for university talent (AUT), are apartments provided to staff at non-market price, in order to attract outstanding scholars from around the world to work in universities and improve educational quality. This has been a critical issue in achieving social sustainability in China during rapid urbanization and industrialization. The agent construction mode has been adopted to build AUT because universities usually lack relevant management experience. The agent construction mode is a type of turnkey engineer construction based on the principal-agent model, project bidding mode, engineering contracting projects, and project supervision system. Risk factors are important considerations for both universities and agent construction companies. Although some studies have investigated the risk factors, only a few studies have identified the hierarchical structure of relevant risk factors. Therefore, the interrelationship and prioritization of the risk factors remain unknown, and this situation presents a barrier to better risk management. This paper investigates the interrelationship of risk factors with interpretative structural modeling (ISM). In addition, fuzzy MICMAC (matric d’impacts croises-multiplication appliqué a un classemen) analysis was conducted to prioritize the risk factors. The findings provide useful references for better risk management of building AUT through the agent construction mode. Although this study focuses on China, the analytical process can also be generalized to other research topics and other countries.
Highlights
Since the termination of national welfare housing allocation in China in 1998, housing prices have soared due to various reasons, including accelerated urbanization, farmland protection, and overinvestment, e.g., [1,2,3]
Apartments for university talent (AUT), are apartments provided to staff at non-market price, to attract outstanding scholars from around the world to work in universities
Building AUT is necessary in the current condition of China, this practice is against the rule of the housing market
Summary
Since the termination of national welfare housing allocation in China in 1998, housing prices have soared due to various reasons, including accelerated urbanization, farmland protection, and overinvestment, e.g., [1,2,3]. The high housing price plus low payment brings certain burdens for university talents to settle down and work well in urban areas, and this situation presents a barrier to improving educational quality and achieving social sustainability [4]. Apartments for university talent (AUT), are apartments provided to staff at non-market price, to attract outstanding scholars from around the world to work in universities. AUT can facilitate in mitigating the housing difficulties faced by young teachers. These apartments are usually located adjacent to the campus, and this location promotes communication between teachers and students. Building AUT is necessary in the current condition of China, this practice is against the rule of the housing market
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