Paper Title
Critical Success Factors in Sustainable Project Management in China Pakistan Economic Corridor Project Pakistan
Abstract
China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has durable effects on economic, social and contextual sustainability of a country. In the construction project’s life cycle, project management plays a vital role by incorporating resources and stakeholders through different phases for the purpose of achieving sustainable project results. Construction projects in Pakistan have got new dimensions in the construction industry, but success can be achieved if competitive contractors are there. Among numerous management challenges, the choice of the CSFs in sustainable project management has a deep effect on project success. Given that CSFs in Sustainable project management has a significant relationship with outcomes such as firm effectiveness and based on resource based view theory. This research presents a CSFs effectiveness model for investigating the effect of sustainable project management on the success of Construction Company, particularly in the CPEC Pakistan context. Which is focus on three main factors namely, project organization structure, project competitive strategy and project description which are tested. Around 51 experts from Chinese firm which work in different departments and professions (Project manager, Project Engineer, Department Engineer, Civil Engineer, and QA/QC Engineer) are asked to fill questionnaire form. The collected questionnaires were inspected for completeness and coded in Statistical software (Version 21) for analysis. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to evaluate the model for the effect of the critical success factors in sustainable project management on firm Success. The analysis reveals that sustainable project management shows 39 % variation in them. In addition the results supports the three model proposition having consistent confidents for each proposition. This research applauds for additional research should be carried out in neighbor countries to discover if this result is particular to the country of our study and to gain deeper insight into this relationship.
Keywords - Critical Success Factors (CSFs), Sustainable Project Management, Project Success, Project Management, China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).