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Received: 2024-10-18  |  Accepted: 2025-02-25  |  Published: 2025-03-30

Title

Contributions of cultural and social norms to projects success within the real estate family business in China


Abstract

The research question of how could project managers make the Chinese real estate family business projects more sustainable and successful under specific cultural and social norms, is anchored in five-factor groups: the role of cultural and social norms in entrepreneurship; the value-added of an effective project; family business characteristics across different economies; peculiarities of real estate firms, and the growing economic and entrepreneurship power of China. As a pillar of China's economy, the real estate family enterprises are typical project-based enterprises. Driven by the purpose of understanding the views and experiences of project managers in a specific context of cultural and social norms and providing project management improvement recommendations (based on the Chinese real estate family businesses experience), the literature review led to a conceptual model of the role of cultural and social norms on Chinese real estate family business project success. The qualitative analysis, based on the semi-structured experts' interviews, helped verify the conceptual model. The theoretical framework conditions were tested through different angles, such as generation gap, educational background, professional experiences, and nature of the environment (family versus non-family).


Keywords

project success, family business, real estate industry, cultural and social norms, innovation, effectiveness


JEL classifications

L16 , L21 , L85 , M14 , M16


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1292


DOI


Pages

270-285


Funding


This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Laužikas, Mindaugas
Vilnius University Business School, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.vm.vu.lt
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Miliūtė, Aistė
Vilnius University Business School, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.vm.vu.lt
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Liu, Lijuan
Vilnius University Business School, Vilnius, Lithuania https://www.vm.vu.lt
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

12


Number

3


Issue date

March 2025


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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