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- Title
SYSTEM OF THE ASSESSMENT INDICATORS OF THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.
- Authors
Vanags, Jānis; Geipele, Ineta
- Abstract
Already at the end of last century a considerable attention to the research of competitiveness and its increase by revealing affecting factors of the competitiveness of the industry and region had been devoted. Within the framework of this article the most considerable focus is put on the theoretical aspects of the competitiveness assessment of the construction industry. Recently, the construction industry has experienced rapid growth. In the circumstances of rapid growth of the industry, favourable conditions for the increase of the competitiveness of separate construction companies and entire construction industry develop. Within the framework of the work the construction competitiveness is researched in relation with the necessity of the construction industry to stand the competition with other industries of the national economy in the resource production market and meeting with the increasing import of the construction products. The Authors of this article have developed a system of indicators for the assessment of the competitiveness of the construction industry. The aim of this article is to reveal the method that can be used in the assessment of changes of the competitiveness of construction industry and by using the developed indices to carry out the necessary calculations in order to sure of the changes in the competitiveness of the industry during the time period from 2002 till 2007.
- Subjects
LATVIA; ECONOMIC competition; CONSTRUCTION industry; INDEXES; PORTER, Michael; EUROPEAN Union
- Publication
Geomatics, 2009, Issue 5, p62
- ISSN
1691-4341
- Publication type
Article