Improving the Competitiveness of Enterprises Operating in the Construction Services Market

¹ Department of Economics and Management in Services, Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics, 21, Sadovaya str., St. Petersburg 191023, Russia
² Department of Economics and Construction Management, Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, 9, Moskovsky pr., St. Petersburg 190031, Russia
³ Department of Construction Economics and Housing and Utility Infrastructure, Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2-ya Krasnoarmeiskaya str. 4, St. Petersburg 190005, Russia

^* Corresponding author: epes2@mail.ru

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyze the tools that exist today to improve the competitiveness of companies in the Russian construction and repair services market, which promote their progressive development from the perspective of partnership management. The competitors’ ambition to establish, maintain, develop and utilize their own advantages and to simplify the competitive environment is realized through the establishment of interaction between the competing subjects, which can be legally identified as a competitive partnership. The authors consider the possibility of establishing a competitive partnership in the context of horizontal merger and network associations as part of the investment-and-construction complex. This research describes the proposals for expanding the practical scope of partnership at the construction services market as a factor of improving the competitiveness level of enterprises on the basis of using strategic approaches to managing production and economic activities and improving the marketing business process support.