Abstract: Based on enterprises strategy management and systematic engineering, this paper gives an essential accounts of the exhaustible resources enterprises’ characteristic behavior based on the collection of the 112 projects concerning shift action in China’s these enterprises ranging from 2000 to 2009. This paper explores the process excitation model theoretically and driving factors for the shifting action of these enterprises on the basis of questionnaire survey and action measurement and using the behavior quadrifid graph and trend surface chart. It is concluded that: 1) The enterprises’ shifting action focused on the “high costs - high profits shifting action ” and “lower costs - low profits shifting action”; 2) The enterprises’ shifting actions with high frequency are apparently concentrated in the area with comparatively high profits and costs. In the areas having similar costs, the frequency of shifting action mounts up with the increase of profits.

Key words: shifting action, feature and trend, process excitation model, analysis and measurements, exhaustible resources enterprises