Under the strategy of high-quality development,Chinese enterprises are striving to achieve high-end strategic change through the reconfiguration of non-scale free resources.However,they exhibit certain challenges such as internal re-source limitation and insufficient external legitimacy.To overcome these problems,this study made multiple case studies of Feihe,Zhuye Qing,and Yadea to explore the reconfiguration mechanisms of enterprises in non-scale free resources.The study revealed that:(1)the high-end strategic change of Chinese enterprises underwent stages of"legitimacy establishment"and"legitimacy enhancement".Similarly,the mechanisms for reconfiguring non-scale free resource evolved from"compensation reconfiguration"to"differentiation reconfiguration";(2)High-end strategic change not only relies on a single reconfiguration pattern,but also combines the collaborative,hybrid,and internal reconfiguration patterns,to leverage non-scale free resources and scale-free resources;(3)Reconfiguration mechanisms utilize combinations of resource levers to adjust internal and external resources,reducing the overall reconfiguration expenses such as the costs associated with resource acquisition.Notably,the us-age of similar levers varies slightly across diverse enterprises.In summary,this study will provide a reference in seeking resource reconfiguration path for Chinese enterprises to break through adversity and achieve high-end strategic change.
high-end strategic changenon-scale free resource reconfigurationresource leveragelongitudinal multiple case study