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http://dx.doi.org/10.6106/JCEPM.2014.4.2.023

Chinese Construction Market for Foreign Construction Enterprises using SWOT  

Zhi, Wang En (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University)
Woo, Moon Sung (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University)
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management / v.4, no.2, 2014 , pp. 23-30 More about this Journal
Abstract
The remarkable growth of China's economy over the past several decades has obtained tremendous achievements. The construction industry play a leading role un this rapid economic expansion. And China's huge construction market gives it great economic influence around the world, it has attracting many enterprises to entry, although many enter barriers and market risks exist. However many construction enterprises have not doing well, especially foreign construction enterprises are not doing as well as we thought in the Chinese construction market. Although China's construction market has great development and become increasingly open, foreign investors and contractors now have much broader access to the Chinese construction market than before. But nonetheless, there are a wide range of practical problems that bring potential risks for them to invest in China. This paper aims to identify foreign construction enterprises' position by understanding the local market environment, and adopt he SWOT analysts Identifies the foreign construction enterprises' strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the Chinese construction market, to Proposes appropriate Strengths-Opportunities (SO), Weaknesses-Opportunities (WO), Strengths-Threats (ST) and Weaknesses-Threats (WT) strategies to make the foreign construction enterprises movling forward.
Keywords
Chinese construction market; foreign construction enterprises; SWOT;
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