Abstract: Since 2010, China has become the world's largest industrial producer. However, the traditional energy-consuming and high- polluting manufacturing development model that has brought about increasingly obvious environmental issues is no longer able to meet the requirements of green transformation and high-quality development. Green supplier integration is a significant way to realize green transformation and improve the sustainable competitiveness of firms, and it is necessary to fully consider the matching role of technology, organization and environment to improve the level of green supplier integration. Accordingly, the multiple driving paths and performance of green supplier integration are important issues to be addressed. Based on the TOE framework and configurational perspective, we conduct a configuration analysis on 317 Chinese manufacturing firms and a typical case analysis on configuration solutions by integrating fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) and propensity score matching (PSM) methods to explore the differential driving path of supplier green integration and its effect on firm performance. The findings are as follows:(1) Any single factor does not constitute the necessary condition of high green supplier integration, but green training and development play a universal role in producing high green supplier integration; (2) There are four driving paths that constitute high green supplier integration, namely, big data analysis capability and green human resource-driven path under the dual culture of flexibility and control, big data analysis capability and green human resource-driven path under control culture, big data analysis capability and strategic green human resource-driven path under control culture-dominant, incremental big data analysis capability and green human resource-driven path under flexibility culture; (3) The absence of big data analysis capability and green human resource management is the key reason for non-high green supplier integration; (4) High green supplier integration generated by four driving paths has a differential impact on firm performance. The research conclusions can help better understand the complex interaction among multiple factors behind green supplier integration of China's manufacturing industry, and bring practical enlightenment for firm performance management and high-quality development.

Key words: green supplier integration, firm performance, multiple driving paths, TOE framework, configurational perspective