A Study on Business Performance Evaluation of Construction Industry in Taiwan – An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

• Main Authors: Ta-Te Lo, 羅大德
• Other Authors: Wann-yih Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10905421356609531320

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 高階管理碩士在職專班 === 97 === Construction Industry is one of the most important indexes for economic development and the competition power in a country. When the economy growth did not keep up nationwide, the government usually expand the expenses on public infer structure to stimulate the recovery of economic activities. Taiwan became one of the member of WTO in January 2002, and since then the Construction Industry in Taiwan was no longer under protection strategically, which meant the Construction Industry has to face the competes from both inland and foreign countries. To better establish a nation’s economy foundation, the Management Achievements plays the key role. Therefore, how to maximum the industry competition, fine the most beneficial management method, and ensure the long term business development is becoming very critical. The research is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the changing situations for Analysis of Scale Efficiency, Slack Variable Analysis, and Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) of individual construction company. There are 13 construction companies samples of listed firms in Taiwan stock market between 2006 and 2008. The research tried to analyze step by step on the basis of nine Input-Output Models. The input factors included the organization scale, management ability, and operational capability, and the output would result in corporation image, business income, financial situation, profit ability and cash flow. The results of the empirical analysis are listed below: 1. To fit the overall aspect of efficiency analysis, there are Continental Engineering Co, BES Engineering Co, Da Cin Construction Co, and Kung Sing Engineering Co. that showed highly efficient unit. 2. Most of the construction companies in Taiwan have showed pretty good management, fair in the organization efficiency, but need strengthening in the managed capacity like quality control, duration of construction, and cost.