Critical strategies for Chinese architectural, engineering and construction firms to achieve profitability

摘要: Purpose – An appropriate choice of strategies helps firms to survive and develop in a turbulent economic environment. The problem is that there are many can be adopted, but it not clear which ones would boost profitability. purpose this paper investigate how architectural, engineering construction (A/E/C) headquartered mainland China (Chinese A/E/C firms) achieve profitability China; specifically, uncover the critical practices adopted by Chinese using Porter's generic competitive strategies, Sun Tzu's Art War, networking approach.Design/methodology/approach data collection instrument was structured questionnaire. methods were mail survey face‐to‐face interviews. population comprised all China. Samples randomly drawn from Construction Industry Association's database. Stratified sampling select on...