Improvement of collaborative team performance between Western and Chinese partners in the China's building industry

Improvement of collaborative team performance between Western and Chinese partners in the China's building industry

Hu, W.

Van Oel, C.J. (mentor)
Chen, Y. (mentor)
Koolwijk, J.S.J. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Management of building environment

2016-06-24

Increasing international building construction projects happen in China, thus it is unavoidable for Western European architects to collaborative with Chinese developers. However, since cultural differences and language barriers may lead to low psychological safety and poor trust, slowing down the process and causing frustration in collaborative teams. In the end, collaborative team ineffectively performance in the Chinese context. The importance of this study is that it shows that cultural diversity does impact the development of trust and psychological safety in collaborative teams in construction industry in China.

psychological safety
trust
team performance
guan-xi
high-context communication
building industry
western European architects
Chinese developers
collaborative teams
China

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Student theses

master thesis

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