| Title |
Assessment of the Effectiveness of Unfair Trading Prevention Ac ts in Construction Industry |
| Authors |
Kim, Sung-Il ; Cho, Jung-Hee ; Chang, Chul-Ki |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.6106/KJCEM.2018.19.1.065 |
| Keywords |
Unfair Trading ; Policy ; Effectiveness ; IPA ; Construction Project |
| Abstract |
Since unfair trading practices between participants in construction project are common, the government has enforced several policies and systems to prevent or minimize the unfair trading practices in construction industry. However, not much attention has been paid to figure out which policies or acts are working or not. This paper analyzed the effectiveness of the policies and acts which are being implemented to prevent unfair trading practices and provided several suggestions to improve the performance of those acts. Survey was conducted to industry experts to collect data regarding their perceptions on those policies and acts. Then the effectiveness of the policies and acts were analyzed in terms of their importance and performance through IPA (Importance-Performance Analysis) based on the survey result. It was found through IPA that execution related acts such as investigation, exposure, and punishment for unfair trading practice have shown low effectiveness in entire construction process and dispute arbitration and mediation related center operated by authority showed low performance too. To improve the effectiveness of those acts, dispute arbitration system improvement, investigation & reporting system consolidation and enhancement practical binding force of punishment and penalty were suggested. Most of all, rules and culture for fair trading should become more established in construction industry by preventing conflict among participants through active communication. |