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1.0 INTRODUCTION
Economic is the social science concerned with the efficient use of our limited
source to achieve maximum satisfaction of human materials wants. In our daily life,
we use this concept to carry on our life
In the construction firm, the concept of economic also being applied as the
construction firm will involve different kind of business. To carry out a construction
project, we need to get the different resource (supply) to build the road , bridge ,
condominium and etc. (demand). Therefore ,the economics have the close relationship
with the construction. This is because of economic is concerned with the production,
distribution , and consumption of services ,good . Then, the economic will affect the
construction industry in price , supply of material and services. So ,the development
of construction industry can be greatly affect by the change in economic.
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2.0 REPORT
2.10 Relationship between the business selected and construction industry
The relevant construction industry in Malaysias business involves architect, roofing
contractor, construction machinery, paint manufacturer, green rating tool and so on.
Before construct a building, architect will involve in construction project from the
earliest stages tight through to completion, provides services in connection with the
design of buildings and the space of surrounding buildings including provide advice
to clients. They also help to restore and converse the old buildings and develop new
ways of using existing buildings.
In the case of huge construction project, construction machinery needed for replacing
labor intensive to optimizing productivity, contributes to economy, providing a
quality product, safety, speed and timely completion of a project. Construction
machinery offers services for the construction, infrastructure-related, plantation,
quarry, scrap metal handling, mining and forestry industries. Besides, roofing
contractor provides the planning of whole roofing process including roof repairing,
roof installing and roof replacement. Roofing contractors become indispensable in
each building construction.
Painting is closely associated with the other parts of the construction industry and
with the various type of products that support it. After the buildings structure has
been constructed, painting provided in decorating with the option of design, colors,
coating and so on which relate to the architectural design. In a construction industry, a
green rating tool provided for buildings to promote sustainability in the built
environment and raise awareness among professions in different construction industry
field and the Public about environmental issues and our responsibility to the future
generations.
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2.20 Identity market structure in which the business as a whole is
operating
Pure Competition
1. Veritas Architect
2. Roofing constractor
Pure monopoly
Monopolistic competition
1. Manufacture paints
Oligopoly
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2.30 Business and market structural characteristics
2.3.2.Roofing constrator
Le Nam Megasheet ( M) Sdn Bhd is a roofing contractors and industrial supplies of
the local metal roofing manufacturer relevant to the construction industry in Malaysia.
This firm is the one company that has the only with its own range of Ledex metal
roofs in Malaysia. LE NAM is committed to the efficient use of resources, reducing
and preventing pollution and product life-cycle.
This kind of roofing contractors company there have more than 100 difference firms
include Yongyang Sdn. Bhd, Best Truss Construction Sdn. Bhd , Creatones Sdn Bhd
and others.
This company brand Ledex is providing quality metal roofing at affordable price. A
variety of product types with different colour and pattern combinations. For example,
a flex roofing flex divide to crimp curve, step roofing, 3 in 1(aluminium foil, EPE
form, metal), PU Foam Crimp Curve and PU Metal Roofing. PU Metal Roofing also
has three different thicknesses. But every firm are selling the same product.
Metal roofing prices per square foot are determined depend on the number of material
used to cover may be able get a better price per square foot. Metal roofing prices
based on different thing and all are taken into consideration by someone who is
deciding the price they willing to spend. So mean if no need different pattern just
normal roofing the price is follow the market price. Each firm in the industry is a
price-taker, it takes the price as something is beyond its individual control.
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As a roofing contractors and industrial supplies the basic needed is worker and the
material. In pure competition market there are easy with no barriers to entry into the
industry so new firms can enter or exit the industry. (Economicshelp.org. ,2017)
The characteristic of pure competition is the product sold by each firm in the industry
is a perfect substitute for the product sold by every other firm. The product is thus not
in any sense differentiated regardless of the source of supply. Any firm can enter or
exit the industry without serious impediments.
Monopoly is an industry that produces a specific good or service for which no close
substitutes exists and in which there is one supplier protected from competition by a
barrier preventing the entry of new firms.The monopolist will get economic profits by
the barriers to entry.There is only one firms which is large in size and no other firm
can enter the monopoly market.When a company has a copyright or patent that
prevents others to enter the market may also form a monopoly.
High barriers to entry may cause a pure monopoly faces competition,like high initial
costs and has gain significant market impression through network effects.A pure
monopolist has no immediate competitors because there are some barriers that make
potential competitors enter into the industry.The monopolist is the only seller in the
pure monopoly market. (Quizlet.com. ,2017)
The product produced by a pure monopolist is unique.Marginal cost includes the cost
of differentiation in the pure monopoly market.As long as marginal revenue is
positive,demand is elastic.For instance,the product provided by the green building
index company is certification.Green buildings are designed to recycle materials,save
energy and resources and minimise the toxic substances throughout its life cycle.
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2.3.4. Manufacture paints
There are many firms in monopolistic competition but not an uncountable number.
The large number of seller have three implications. First, each firm has only a small
market share and therefore each firm has limited market power to influence the price
of its goods and services. Second, each firm is sensitive to the average market price,
but no firms actions directly affect the actions of other firms. For example, there are
many brand of paint in the market such as Nippon Paint, Jotun Paints, Kansai Paint,
PL Paint., Akzo Nobel Paints, Chugoku Paints, Seamaster Paint, DNT Paint, Federal
Paint, Colourland Paints Sdn Bhd and so on. Hence, when Nippon paint decides to
run a sale, it wont take into account the action of any other specific firm. Third,
collusion or conspiring to fix prices is impossible in monopolistic competition.
There are differences among the paint in aspect of brand names, physical
characteristic, location, services, packaging and so on. Product differentiation is a
strategy that firm use to achieve market power. For example, Nippon paint developing
high-grade environmentally friendly products with near zero VOC content. Nippon
paint also creates highly functional products and systems that keep bacteria and paint
odour at bay and reduce the number of coating processes to save energy. This is why
Nippon paint is slightly different with other paints because not all of the paint will
have those characteristic.
In monopolistic competition, the producers have the ability to control the degree of
price of the product its sells. They are known as price maker not price taker. As
compare to a price taker, a price maker can raise its price and still sell its product
although the product sold may not as much as it sells at a lower price. There are
difference in prices for each differentiated product but usually the price is not too
huge. The differentiation is often accomplished through advertising.
Under monopolistic competition, firms enter and exit from the market is relative easy,
even though it may not be totally free. The assumption of no significant entrance
barriers drives the firms earning zero economic profit in the long run.
There are two reasons that business firms are attracted to nonprice competition. First,
it offers a way for a firm to rise the demand for its products. Second, by high lighting
differences and playing down similarities, nonprice competitions helps an individual
firm to make its product appear distinctive.
The firm who are operating the business under oligopoly market will have bigger
share in the market . Therefore there is only fewer large firm involve in the oligopoly
market. In Malaysia , there is only 4 construction machinery which is Hitachi
Construction Machinery Malaysia and KOBELCO Construction Machinery Malaysia
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Sdn. Bhd. and Finbond Heavy Machinery Sdn Bhd (Finbond), Volvo Construction
Equipment which dominate the market of manufacturing the construction machinery
in Malaysia. The business fall on this market structural will have fewer firm ,
normally below than 10 firm. It still can controls the price and output. Thus an
oligopoly has some monopoly power.
If one the firm have make the new decision on the price and the output like reduce the
product proce,then it will influence other firm do respond to that firm decision. Firms
that are interdependent cannot act independently of each other. A firm must take the
potential respond of its closest rivals into account when making its own
decisions.Therefore , the firms is price maker that they can set the price and profit to
gain maximum profit.It coordinate the control over price. (Investopedia. ,2017)
To respond the decision made by other firm, therefore, the firm will make strategic
decision to face the challenge. For example HITACHI may collude or compete with
the KOBELCO. The firm may change the price of product. The firm may also be the
first firm to use new plan to chanllenge the rival. The strategic decision will help them
gain maximun profit and reduce loss.
Barrier to entry this market is a natural or legal barrier.To enter the buiness ,it is too
costly or difficult for potential rival . This may become an obtacle for the new firm to
enter. Example of natural barrier is Economies of large scale production, High R&D
costs, set-up costs,government license, acess to the complex technology in
manufacturing the construction machinery. But the barrier not not more than the
monopoly market structure.
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3.0 INDIVIDUAL ASSESMENT (COMMENT)
3.10 Lee Rong Cherng
Best fit of market structure is the market structure are really suitable in the
construction industry which the market structure can fulfil the demand of the
consumer. Best fit market structure will improve the whole development of
construction industry with its own of characteristic that can fit the demand of the
market.
I think there is no best fit of market structure. There is no single market structure can
fit in the requirement of construction industry. It only can be achieve by combine all
the market structure in construction industry. This is because every market structure
will have the advantage and disadvantage.
The reason of pure competition cannot be applied on the all kind of business. This is
because this market will produce the homogenous product. In some business ,the
different variety of product or services. As it might have different demand on the
function and appearances different consumer. Furthermore , supernormal profits also
less may mean the investment of Research and Development(R&D) is unlikely.
Then , the reason of pure monopoly cannot fit to all kind of business because the firm
involve in this market is only one. Therefore the firm will produce the low amount of
product with high price. Therefore ,the interest of the buyer will be discriminated as
the buyer have no other choice than the firm which have no competition . ( G."Bill"
Borges, W. ,2016)
Furthermore , the monopolistic competition will have the intense competition with the
rival. Therefore some of the monopolist will do some practice to eliminate the other
rival like reducing the product cost or having promotion the product through the cut
throat competition. The loss in one market can be compensated by charging a very
high price in other markets, then, this practise will also affect the no. of firm in the
business. After monopolising the market, the interest of the buyer will not be truly
protected.
Lastly ,oligopolistic will involve in the cartel-like behaviour. This is because one of
the solution to reduce the profit loss is collude with others firm. But this will enable
the firms to set the price at high cost. Therefore, it will make the buyer with no option
to choose but still need to accept the price fix by the oligopolistic.
It is impossible to have a best fit market structure. The market structure have
different weakness that is unable to fit in all kind of business. Therefore, the all
business in the construction industry should have different market structure that can
neutralise the weakness from the market. Therefore, the interest and right of buyer
and seller will be protected and the economic will be kept in the optimist level.
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3.20 Lam Shuet Mun
In my opinion, construction industry has no best fit market structure but have
multiply best fit market structure. It needed four type of market structure to fit to the
construction industry as existing market, pure competition, monopolistic competition,
oligopoly and monopoly. These structure is based on the pyramid as an interest level
of buyers and sellers. The relevant pure competition construction industry company is
JUBM Sdn Bhd. It is the numerous company with standard products causes the result
of having no barriers to entry and no company can influence the market price.
There is no best fit market structure in construction industry, for example pure
competition is the only market structure, it results in an unnecessary duplicate of plant
and equipment and company may earn less profit. Although competition benefits the
economy as whole, it harms the interest of sellers especially in short run. It can
impose financial hardship on individual firms and displaced workers if firms want to
produce more efficient products. In some company are not able to provide a service as
cheaply and prefect. (V. Mastrianna, 2017).
If the market is only monopolistic competition. It will restrict the output and raising
the price of the products for extra profit. This market structure will harm the interest
of buyers. Next, the company also need to spend a lot of money on advertising as such
an advertising valuable tiles to compete others company and because of the numerous
competitors cause some competitors failed to compete become unemployment. It will
adverse the Malaysian economics. The insufficient term in oligopoly causes the
multiply best fit. It shown the less competitors and much buyers causes the lack of
improving their products and also. People will easily lose their job causes the total
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economic of Malaysia decrease as it blocks new firms entry. Because of the lack of
company, buyers gain less choice.
Next, monopoly cant become the best fit market structure as long as the price taker
only benefit the sellers and it lets the buyers no choice and dissatisfied. It will bring
the Inferior goods and services as there is no competitors. Price discrimination occurs
exploiting consumer. If the market is monopoly then every seller will charge high
prices for high profit causes the imbalance. In conclusion, there must have multiply
best fit market structure in construction industry.
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3.30 Lim Sing Jie
In my understanding of best fit, best fit in market structure is can help the
company use the most suitable method to gain more profit and minimize loss. Other
than that, if they method is the best also may make a company can get international.
The characteristics of a market are relative strength of buyers and sellers, level and
form of competition and extent of product differentiation.
In market structure have four basic distinct market models, which are pure
competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly and pure monopoly. Pure
competition is the power of supply and demand determines the quantity of goods and
services produced and also the price is follow market price. Pure competition assumes
the environment or climate compatible with the buildings within it.
Oligopoly is a few dealers compete for the whole market. For example,
accounts for approximately half of the supply of cement to building firm. In this kind
of market firm will price their product or service according to the other competitors of
react. An oligopolistic industry will make more profits if some firms cooperate as a
group.
Pure monopoly and pure competition markets sit at either end of market
structure extremes. However, both minimize cost and maximize profit. Where there
are there are many competitors in a perfect competition, in monopolistic markets
theres just one supplier. The supplier is the price-maker, setting a price that
maximizes profits.
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3.40 Lee Jiahui
The best fit of market structure in the construction industry is known as the only one
of the market model will be the most suitable that appear in construction industry. We
know that the degree of competition that a business faces in a market influences its
behaviour with the regard to the price it charges, the profit it makes, and the nonprice
competition it uses. Therefore, economists have created four models of market
situations, called markets structures which consists of pure competitions,
monopolistic competition, oligopoly and also monopoly.
The four market structures represent a spectrum of competitive conditions. At one end
of the spectrum is pure competition, where the competitive pressure is the strongest,
and at the other end is monopoly where there is no direct competition, and oligopoly,
which is closer to monopoly.
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3.50 Siah Ching Li
Industries operate on the basis of products, geographical reach and target consumers.
Each industry comprises numerous firms. Economists contend that there are four
basic types of industry infrastructures including perfect competition, pure monopoly,
monopolistic competition and oligopoly. These four types specify the
behavior,structure, and organization of a particular industry.
Best fit market model in the construction industry means the only one market
structure which is most suitable and should be present in the construction industry. In
order to understand the precise relationship between output,price and revenue a firm
has to know the structure of the market or industry into which it is selling the product.
There are four type of market structures.In my opinion, i think that it is possible to
have the multiple best fit and cannot be single best fit of market structure in the
construction industry.
First and foremost,a pure competition construction industry is one that comprises
numerous small sellers and buyers. Firms that comprise the industry manufacture
about the same products and consumers have to complete and precise information
about their prices. All firms have equal access to raw materials, technology,labour and
capital.There is no single market leader or monopolistic firm in a perfectly
competitive industry. These type of company are identically leveraged and each must
offer high quality products to keep customers.
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Oligopoly is a construction industry that is controlled by a limited firms that function
independently with each other. Oligopoly subdivided into undifferentiated and
differentiated. Undifferentiated oligopoly is companies that sell the same product or
commodity. Differentiated oligopoly is companies sell similar products but different
features.
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4.0 CONCLUSION
In this assignment , it have emphasizes the demand and supply. For example the
construction project is the demand , which required the material and man-power to
complete the building project. Then, the business that we have selected is supply the
requirement to the construction . Therefore ,economics in the construction industry
have a close relationship
Based on this assignment, it have found that there are 4 main market structure :pure
competition, pure monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly involve in the
construction industry
Pure competition firm have to carry out at highest efficiency level which is to produce
at a price same to marginal cost,which cause the product is at the lowest price highest
output compared to other market. Based on the pure monopoly, the business normally
will take over by the government,so they will not producing the product at lower
output at high price.Then, for the oligopoly, the firm will have the strategic behaviour
to face any decision made by the other firm. The firms will make the relative respond
to reduce the loss and gain maximum profit.
Then, it also found that strategic is important in the business in order to reduce the
loss. For example, the firm will carry out the promotion and discount , to attract more
customers. Strategic is important to reduce the harm caused by other firms, so the firm
could still survive in this business. Furthermore, the oligopolistic will collude with the
others firm in standardised the price ,therefore it can maximise the profit.
So, the construction development will not be obstructed by the economic changes.
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