Advancement of the design of AEC-related business management concepts along the common good dimension

OED (2020) defines common “belonging to more than one as a result or sign of co-operation, joint or united action, or agreement; to make common cause, to unite one's interests with those of another, to league together” and common good "the public property of a community or corporation". The aim of this paper is to advance the design of business management (BM) concepts with contexts related to the AEC sector along the common good dimension. The sub-aims include (a) overviewing 89 AEC-related BM concepts published between the years 1990 and 2019, (b) reporting on the focused review of the design of these 89 BM concepts along the common good dimension and (c) suggesting how to design future AEC-related BM concepts with positive impacts on common good. For the focused review, the four degrees were pre-specified for the linking of common good and BM conceptually. A particular author may have designed an AEC-related BM concept along the common good dimension to (i) a high degree; common good is explicitly and extensively assigned to both the demand side (e.g., to enable owners to deliver social good) and the supply side (e.g., to adopt environmentally sustainable operations) of BM, (ii) a medium degree; it is explicitly assigned to either the demand side or the supply side, (iii) a low degree; it is only mentioned (e.g., to be socially responsible) and (iv) no degree; the author has written nothing about common good. It was revealed that 21 (24%) authors have designed their AEC-related BM concepts along the common good dimension. There are 5 high-degree, 6 medium-degree and 10 low-degree BM concepts. It is suggested that AEC-related researchers and business managers alike adopt the common good dimension and assign shared benefits, social responsibility issues, community engagement forms, well-being and environmental sustainability targets to BM concepts.