Configuration Effects of Influencing Factors for Basic Research Inclination of Firms—QCA Analysis Based on High-tech Firms in Zhongguancun Science Park

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the perspective of system integration, this paper constructs an analytical framework of the factors influencing basic research inclination of firms. Taking 198 high-tech firms in Beijing Zhongguancun Science Park as research samples, this paper applies Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to identify and test the synergistic effects of the firms’ internal and external multi-factors on their basic research inclination and the underlying complex causal mechanisms. The results show that there are five factor combination driving models that can promote the firms’ basic research inclination, namely, the internal capital-driven model, the external innovation resource-driven model, the independent driving model backed by financial capital, the cooperation-driven model backed by financial capital, as well as the model driven jointly by internal and external innovation resources. These five different factor-driven models represent the multiple formation paths of basic research inclination of different firms. These findings are conducive to enriching the research on the influencing factors of firms’ basic research inclination from the perspective of system integration, and have important theoretical and practical significance for revealing the factor combination modes of firms’ basic research inclination.

Key words: basic research, qualitative comparative analysis, influencing factors, configuration effect

Yang Yuanqi, Kou Mingting, Chen Kaihua. Configuration Effects of Influencing Factors for Basic Research Inclination of Firms—QCA Analysis Based on High-tech Firms in Zhongguancun Science Park[J]. Management Review, 2024, 36(4): 88-99.

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