Abstract:      The manufacturing industry, often regarded as the cornerstone of the real economy, holds paramount importance for China in addressing various challenges in the contemporary era. Throughout China′s modernization process, as the facilitator of industrial transformation and upgrading, it becomes imperative to investigate the interconnected path of high-quality development of Chinese manufacturing enterprises. By incorporating the perspectives of the resource-based view and industry-based view, this study follows the technology-organization-environment framework and identifies six crucial conditions influencing high-quality development. Subsequently, employing fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, necessary condition analysis, and artificial neural network methods, this study investigates the configurations of high-quality development of manufacturing enterprises. The sample consists of 250 A-share listed manufacturing enterprises.This study reveals several noteworthy findings. Firstly, there are 4 configurations of high-quality development of Chinese manufacturing enterprises, with the predominant model featuring a synergistic configuration to organizational and technological innovation. Meanwhile, 2 configurations are discerned that lead to non-high-quality development of manufacturing enterprises. Secondly, it is crucial to underline that the risk-taking spirit of top decision-makers stands as is the only necessary and most influential condition for achieving high-quality development of Chinese manufacturing enterprises. This condition consistently manifests in all four configurations of high-quality development of manufacturing enterprises, serving as the core condition alongside the enterprises′ capacity to explore international markets. Thirdly, the interplay of external industrial structure dynamics with the core resource capabilities of enterprises emerges as a pivotal pathway through which enterprises can secure high-quality development and gain a competitive edge in the contemporary; the impact exerted by a firm′s resource capabilities is especially pronounced. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the intricate mechanism governing the paths of high-quality development of Chinese manufacturing enterprises, while also providing valuable insights for policy formulation purposes.

Key words:  manufacturing enterprise, highquality development, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), necessary condition analysis (NCA), artificial neural network (ANN)