INNOVATION IN THE CONTEXT OF A DEVELOPING COUNTRY: A CASE OF GROUP HOUSING PROJECT

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This paper presents a case of group housing project that was new of its kind implemented in the underdeveloped economy of Nepal. The project has been taken as a contextual innovation because of its newness and uniqueness in the context of the country at the time of implementation. This study presents a detail account of the project implementation emphasizing the challenges faced by the involved key parties. It provides important insight into the project which eventually proved to be a significant and successful initiating push in triggering a promising new real estate sector in the national economy. Qualitative approach was used for the research in which the main instrument for collecting primary data was face-to-face semi-structured interviews with the key people involved in the project. The findings have been presented in terms of the categories of challenges as the initial perceived constraints, management level challenges, and project level challenges.