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Al Hatmi, H (2012) Business relationships: A cross-culture management investigation in the UAE construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Alblooshi, M (2021) Exploring the influence of management style on job satisfaction: The case of construction companies in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Ashworth, S J (2021) The evolution of facility management (FM) in the building information modelling (BIM) process: An opportunity to use critical success factors (CSF) for optimising built assets, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Brady, L (2019) An investigation into the management of energy performance for building services systems: design to operation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Brennan, M C E (2014) Sustainable construction in the 21st century: An educational perspective to shifting the paradigm, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Bryde, D J (2000) Project management: uses, structures, systems and influences, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Cotgrave, A J (2008) Achieving literacy in sustainability: shifting the paradigm for construction management education, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.
Dakhil, A (2013) The contribution of the construction industry to economic development in Libya, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: construction companies; developing countries; economic development; employment; granger causality; gross domestic product; infrastructure; Libya; Malaysia
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- URL: https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.t.00004454
- Abstract:
It is widely recognised that the construction industry has a positive role to accelerate the wheel of economic growth in any country. This research is concerned with the Libyan construction industry (LCI). Libya is a developing country which suffered from a big loss in its infrastructures and its unemployment rate increased to 30% in the middle of 2013. Regarding the importance of the construction industry through the role it has in providing infrastructure and creating employment and the poor economic condition of Libya, the rationale of this research follows the example of other nations such as Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia , and Middle East countries where the construction industry was evolved with a target to further boost up the process of economic development. The case of Libya in this regard is valid for the financial stability in the country given its oil reserves and the capacity of the country to absorb migrated skilled labour. This situation is expected to follow the fall of Gaddafi’s regime. The approach of selecting construction as providing input to economic growth follows the strong evidence of the significant role that the construction industry plays in economic growth of the country. The construction industry contributes to economic growth from the demand side and in the traditional Keynesian economy, sustainable short-run economic growth is dependent on the increased demand. For example, in the UK, construction’s 2.5% growth in the third quarter of 2013 helped the overall economy grow by 0.8% over the same period. In comparison with the other industries that contribute to the economic growth of developing countries, the construction industry is more labour-intensive while the developing countries are mostly labour-abundant. The main aim of this research is to investigate the contribution of the construction industry to economic development in order to establish a comprehensive list of recommendations and a guideline for achieving an efficient construction industry to accelerate the process of economic growth. For this aim, the first objective is to examine the causal relationship between the construction industry and gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of the economic growth and between the construction industry and other economic sectors. To achieve the aim of this research, Granger causality tests have been conducted. The financial data about the expenditure on the construction industry in Libya and its share in the GDP of the country and the share of the other economic sectors in the GDP during 1986-2009 was provided by an authority from the Libyan construction industry. First, The Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) and the Philip Perron (PP) unit root tests were conducted to confirm that the tested time series are stationary. After that, to determine the existence of the long-run causal relationship between the CI and GDP, Engle-Granger co-integration test was used and, finally, vector error correction (VER) model was employed to detect the direction of the causal relationship between the two variables. The study found that in Libya, like in other countries, the relationship between the construction industry and GDP is bi-directional: GDP produces a short-term impact on the investment in the construction industry while investment in the construction industry produces a long-term impact on GDP. However, except for trade, no economic sector was found to have a causal relationship with the construction industry. According to these findings, another objective was established in this research: to identify safety and total quality management (TQM) which can play an important role in growing the efficiency of the Libyan construction industry. To achieve this objective, telephone conversations were conducted with the officials of the largest construction company in the city of Benghazi. The findings indicated that the TQM does not exist in the construction company and, although the safety department does exist, it works via strict procedures. Thus, opportunity to increase the performance of the CI in order to increase its contribution to economic growth does exist through implementation of the safety and TQM implementation in Licccbyan construction companies. The previous studies used the causal relationship just to prove specific hypotheses. The novelty of this research is to obtain benefits from the existence of the causal relationship from the CI to GDP in the long term through suggesting major issues as safety and TQM implementation to raise the performance of the CI in the current period in order to increase its contribution to the economic growth in the future.
Damoah, I S (2015) An investigation into the causes and effects of project failure in government projects in developing countries: Ghana as a case study, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University.
Demir, S T (2013) AgiLean PM: a unifiying strategic framework to manage construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.
Hall, M A (2000) International Construction Management: the cultural dimension, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.
Hussien, A (2017) ARGILE: a conceptual framework combining augmented reality with agile philosophy for the UK construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.
Ibrahim, M H I (2011) Corporate environmental disclosure: a case from the Libyan construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.
Kader, A S A (1997) Cost modelling for inland waterway transport systems, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom).
Kelly, C L (2019) Development of a site selection tool based in life cycle assessment (LCA), for tidal power schemes, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Kokkarinen, N I A (2012) Development of a measurement tool to assess sustainability in the built environment curriculum using psychological constructs, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Marsh, D (2017) Building information modelling (BIM) and the UK quantity surveying organisation: A framework for value creation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Menoka, B (2014) Stakeholder engagement and sustainability-related project performance in construction, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.
Mulliner, E K (2012) A model for the complex assessment of sustainable housing affordability, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Pauli, L C (2023) Utilising the principles of blockchain technology for managing road infrastructure projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University.
Prochorskaite, A (2016) An investigation of the 'soft' features of sustainable and healthy housing design: exploring stakeholder preferences and their provision in new housing developments, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.
Smith, C R (2001) Procuring the urban house in paradise, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom).
Unterhitzenberger, C (2017) Organizational justice and its impact on project performance: an explanatory framework in the context of the construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.
Wijekoon, K A D N C (2020) Optimising the adoption of building information modelling (BIM) in facilities management (FM): a model for value enhancement, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University.