Identification of the key investment project management factors in the housing construction sector in Poland

The aim of this paper is to distinguish a number of factors that allow for a better understanding of process management in the housing construction industry. The research work that we performed in conducting a questionnaire survey. A total of 192 Polish companies dealing with construction took part in the survey. The collected questionnaire responses were then subjected a thorough analysis and interpretation, with the use of a method called exploratory factor analysis (EFA). In a nutshell, our analysis consisted in reducing the number of survey variables (73) in order to a few pivotal factors (4) with the greatest impact on investment processes management in the of residential construction in Poland. These factors include: the activity of companies in the market (1), pro-social policy of the state (2), highly advanced technologies (3) and the use of appropriate relations (4). In our study, we aim to show how successful construction processes are perceived industry professionals. The scientific method that we used allows for assignment of a certain of priority to specific groups of questionnaire variables, dependent on the eigenvalues-related percentage explained variation.