突破性创新作为企业突破关键核心技术的重要手段,受到多层次多因素的协同影响,但现有单个因素的净效应研究无法揭示其复杂因果机制。本文从组态视角出发,基于社会生态系统理论,构建企业突破性创新的多重并发机制模型,并采用fsQCA方法对影响企业高与非高突破性创新的前因组态进行分析。研究结果表明:(1)不存在引致企业高或非高突破性创新的单个必要条件,即企业突破性创新受到多个因素的协同影响;(2)存在四条导致高突破性创新产生的组态路径,根据核心条件的分布特征,可归纳为能力主导型、动机驱动型、内外资源耦合型;(3)存在三条导致非高突破性创新产生的组态路径,根据核心条件的分布特征,可归纳为能力制约型和资源缺失型;(4)技术能力作为核心条件在导致企业高或非高突破性创新的多条路径中发挥着重要作用。研究结论为企业实现高突破性创新或规避非高突破性创新提供了一定的理论依据和实践启示。

Radical innovation, an essential means to make breakthroughs in the key and core technologies, is affected by synergies gained from multiple factors. However, existing studies that explored the net effect of single factor cannot explain the complex causations and diverse paths leading to the radical innovation in enterprises. Based on the society ecosystems theory, this study constructed a configuration analysis framework for radical innovation, and used the fsQCA method to analyze the antecedent configuration that affect the high and non-high radical innovation. The research found that: (1) there is no single necessary condition for high or non-high radical innovation, that is, the radical innovation of enterprises is affected by the synergy of multiple factors; (2) there are four configuration paths leading to high radical innovation, which can be summarized as capability-driven path, motivation-driven path, internal resource coupling path and external resource coupling path according to the distribution characteristics of core conditions; (3) there are three configuration paths that lead to non-high radical innovation, which can be summarized as capacity-constrained path and resource-deficient path according to the distribution characteristics of core conditions; (4) technical competence as a core condition plays an important role in the multiple paths that lead to high or non-high radical innovation. The conclusions of this study can provide many theoretical implications and practical enlightenments for enterprises to achieve high radical innovation or to ameliorate non-high radical innovation.