Science Research Management ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (10): 164-173.DOI: 10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2025.10.017

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Configuration research on resource combination and enterprise green innovation

Hu Yingde1, Yi Tiantian1, Han Hongyun2   

  1. 1. School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, Zhejiang, China; 
    2. School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310015, Zhejiang, China
  • Received:2023-10-27 Revised:2024-12-28 Accepted:2024-12-30 Online:2025-10-20 Published:2025-10-14

Abstract:    Resource combination is an effective way to alleviate resource constraints of enterprise green innovation, but little literature has paid attention to it. Based on the resource-based view and social network theory, this paper selected 139 pollutant discharge enterprises in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province as research samples, adopted the fsQCA method, and analyzed the combined effect of 6 resources factors, including organizational networks, business networks, administrative networks, human redundancy, financial redundancy and technical redundancy on enterprise green innovations from the perspective of configuration. The results showed that: (1) organizational networks, business networks, administrative networks, human redundancy, financial redundancy and technical redundancy are not the necessary conditions to stimulate enterprise green innovations. (2) There are three resource combinations that can stimulate enterprises to adopt green innovations, including human resource driven mainly by internal exploitation, organizational networks driven by internal and external parallel, and administrative networks driven mainly by leveraging outside strength. (3) Different types of enterprises prefer different types of resource combinations through heterogeneity analysis: Large enterprises mainly leverage outside strength, and prefer organizational and business networks driven resource combination; SME mainly focus on internal potential exploration and prefer internal promotion resource combination; both hightech enterprises and general enterprises prefer exploration of their internal potentials. This paper will provide a new perspective to explain the contingency relationship of enterprises adopting green innovations, and those results will provide practical implications for revealing the multiple resource paths of enterprises in decisionmaking on green innovations, which are important for the public affairs department to design more precise environmental policy combinations to motivate enterprises adopting green innovations. 

Key words: green innovation, resource combination, social network, redundant resource, fsQCA