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The intense competition in the market has exerted much pressure on construction enterprises from both home and abroad to the extent that these enterprises spend every minute in choosing survival and development strategies. This paper first introduces an overview of competitive strategy theory in which the structure of construction enterprises is analyzed through five kinds of competitiveness models and three kinds of competition strategies is analyzed from their strengths and weaknesses. Then, it points out how different construction enterprises take the opportunity in the competition. Last, this paper proposes some suggestions about competition strategy formulation.
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Wang, Yl., Zhou, W. (2013). The Structure of Construction Enterprise and Its Competitive Strategic Choice in China. In: Qi, E., Shen, J., Dou, R. (eds) The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38433-2_29
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