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This paper investigates the housing market performance in Slovenia; the focus is on housing prices at the micro level and according to statistical regions. The analyzed Slovenian regions are classified into three housing price groups: the highest prices are in the capital of Ljubljana and surrounding suburbs, as well as in the Primorska region. The...
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... notably, the housing prices in Groups 1 (Ljubljana, Ljubljana-suburbs and Primorska) and 2 (Gorenjska) are higher per square metre than those in the eastern parts of Slovenia (Group 3). Moreover, the author conducted a frequency distribution analysis of housing prices per square metre and found a somewhat asymmetric housing price distribution (Skewness = 0.45 and Kurtosis = 0.705) (Figure 1). The Jarque-Berra test (136.2) confirmed the unequal distribution of housing prices per square metre in Slovenia. ...
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... The other example can be taken from housing and real estate markets. The housing prices are determinated more by other factors than the supply volume of housing (Bojnec and Romih, 2011) Product variety has emerged as a source of competitive differentiation responding to the requests for increasingly customized products and services, when the variety is even desired (Hayes et al., 2005). One aspect that is often ignored in the literature is managing the product plans, products under development, and products in the market over the product life cycles, from an end-to-end viewpoint. ...
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... Improvements in traditional delivery approaches (e.g., design-bid-build) do not necessarily mean working harder, but rather working smarter. Thus, stakeholders should be able to see the big picture, where the phases of the project are integrated into a total solution to deliver certain benefits for all stakeholders (Murtoaho andKujala, 2007, Bojnec andRomih, 2011). Nowadays, projects must take the whole lifecycle of the end product into account in order to fulfill customer needs. ...
In construction, stakeholder management has been seen as a difficult issue, due to the lack of practical tools for managing the stakeholders and understanding their salience. This study seeks the answer to the following research questions: how can stakeholder salience in a construction project be analyzed, and what is the stakeholders’ salience in a Finnish construction project? The questions are answered by studying the national building code of Finland (NBCF) and a Finnish construction project. The study discovers that the assessment of stakeholders’ salience, requirements, and contributions is an essential element in improving stakeholder management and project success, but the NBCF sets restrictions on the effective execution of project and stakeholder management. The major implication of this study is that the concept of stakeholders and their roles in the NBCF and construction projects need to be expanded in order to enhance stakeholder management in the Finnish construction industry. Based on the findings, a framework for stakeholder assessment is created. The framework facilitates stakeholder management and enhances the value creation of construction projects and the integration of the supply chain.
