Science Research Management ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (7): 70-80.DOI: 10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2025.07.007

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Research on the influencing factors of the intergovernmental collaborative network on the business environment in the Yangtze River Delta area

Hu Shuigen, Yang Jingnan, Wang Xianbo, Guo Chang′en   

  1. School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, China
  • Received:2024-04-29 Revised:2025-06-23 Online:2025-07-20 Published:2025-07-14

Abstract:     Intergovernmental collaboration on business environment is an important way to resolve the imbalance in the development of regional business environment and improve the institutional mechanisms for regional coordinated development. This paper adopted all the 41 prefecture-level or above cities in the Yangtze River Delta area as the research object, collected the intergovernmental agreement data of business environment collaboration in the Yangtze River Delta region in the period of 2018-2024 through web crawler technology, built an intergovernmental collaborative network for the business environment in the Yangtze River Delta, and applied the QAP method to explore its influencing factors. The key findings are as follows: (1) digital technology proximity is conducive to the establishment of an intergovernmental collaborative network for the business environment; (2) industrial structure proximity is not conducive to the establishment of an intergovernmental collaborative network for the business environment; (3) there is a U-shaped relationship between geographical proximity and the intergovernmental collaborative network for the business environment; and (4) the lower the institutional proximity, the more conducive it is to establishing an intergovernmental collaborative network for the business environment, and specifically, it is easier to establish an intergovernmental collaboration network on the business environment between cities across administrative levels and administrative boundaries. The research conclusions will provide a reference for conducting research on related topics of intergovernmental cooperation on business environment in other urban agglomerations such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Pearl River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and across China, and it will provide policy ideas for building a national unified market that is efficient, standardized, fairly competitive, and fully open, and for creating a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized first-class business environment.

Key words: Yangtze River Delta area, business environment, intergovernmental collaborative network, quadratic assignment process (QAP)