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A Case Study on The Competitive Advantage Strategy of Small and Medium Sized Engineering and Construction Company

Engineering and Construction Services is a traditional manufacturing industry, provides factory or facility construction service for petrochemical, electrical power, steel manufacturer, storage and transfer system, environmental protection, technology, energy and public construction project. Most of domestic small and medium sized engineering and construction companies lack of resources for working capital, technical manpower, project management and design capability, such that they are not able to take part in the bidding for a large turnkey project. They can only contract for a smaller construction or be a subcontractor for a larger engineering and construction company, beside that, their profit will be very negligible due to lower entry barrier of this industry. In recent years, more and more companies of petrochemical industry move to foreign countries as well as global economic downturn, case number of domestic construction projects is trending down. Most of medium and small engineering and construction companies are in the face of business distress because of the tough competition, and that will limit the growth of business.
In the mature and competitive industry, the most import strategy for medium and small companies is to build up core ability, build competitive advantage, and improve competitiveness. After that, the companies will have adequate resources and abilities to become a larger company which can enlarge the scale of operation, move to overseas market, and maximize the stockholders¡¦ value. To become a large company is very import for medium and small construction companies. All of these are the vision of small and medium sized engineering and construction companies and are the most important mission of the administrator of the companies.
In this thesis, qualitative research method was used to study C Company by using PEST, Porter 5-force, value chain and SWOT analysis. The purpose of this work is to build up the strategy of competitive advantage for medium and small companies, and to find out proper business strategy for C Company. Some advices will be given to break through the business bottleneck, to enhance core competitiveness, and to enlarge the business scale and scope of C Company. We wish to share our experiences of competitive advantage building up and company renovation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0823111-173843
Date23 August 2011
CreatorsHuang, Shih-Chang
ContributorsFeng-Yang Kuo, Fen-Hui Lin, Hsin-Hui Lin
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0823111-173843
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