Management Review ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 113-127.

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management • Previous Articles    

Analysis of Influencing Factors of University-derived Digital Enterprises' Output: Based on Configuration Effect

Wei Xiaorong, Wang Linxue, Liu Yuxin, Wang Chaofa   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi'an 710126
  • Received:2022-12-28 Published:2025-05-06

Abstract: Aiming at the problems of insufficient driving force and poor access to resources for university entrepreneurship, based on the samples of 31 provinces and cities in China, this paper adopts fuzzy set qualitative comparison method (fsQCA) to explore the configuration effects of entrepreneurial teams, universities, governments and other organizations, as well as the digital entrepreneurship environment in universities, on the output of digital enterprises. The results show that the entrepreneurial team’s digital perception ability, digital resource reconstruction ability, academic environment of universities, academic level of universities, government’s policy support, financial support, scientific and technological services, and digital entrepreneurial environment have a configuration effect on the high yield of digital enterprise results. The configuration that drives the high output of digital enterprise results can be divided into four types: “all-influencing factor-environment” driven, “university-environment” driven, “entrepreneurial team-government” driven and “university-government-environment” driven. The conclusion of this study can provide reference for all provinces and cities to promote the decision-making of digital entrepreneurship in universities.

Key words: digital enterprise, outcome output, influencing factors, configuration effect