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Browsing 12 Built Environment and Design by Author "Gerard de Valence"

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  • Competition and barriers to entry in the construction industry 
    De Valence Gerard (Spon Press, 2011)
    The chapter is structured as follows. The first section defines the four market types found in microeconomics and their main characteristics, including the hight of the barriers to entry found in each type. This is ...
  • Market types and construction markets 
    De Valence Gerard (Spon Press, 2011)
    The chapter analyses one of the characteristics of the building and construction industry that is difficult to quantify in a meaningful way - how competitive markets operate in the industry. The difficulties arise from ...
  • The methodology of building economics research 
    Runeson Karl (Spon Press, 2011)
    Academic research into building economics is comparatively new, if by academic research we mean the kind of research we have in well-established academic disciplines. It seems that a new discipline, like building economics, ...
  • Theory and construction economics 
    De Valence Gerard (Spon Press, 2011)
    Broadly, there are three views of CE. The first follows Hillebrandt and her definition of CE as the application of 'economics to the study of the construction firm, the construction process and the construction industry. ...