Innovative Development Pathways for SMEs in Sports:A Configuration Analysis of Specialized and Sophisticated Enterprises that Produce Novel and Unique Products in Sports in the Context of Institutional Environments
The innovative development of small and medium-sized enterprises(SEMS)in sports are vital forces for enhancing the quality and efficiency of the sports industry,with sports enterprises that use special and sophisticated technologies to produce novel and unique products being typical representatives of innovative SMEs in Sports.This study adopts an integrative analytical framework of multiple institutional environments and utilizes the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA)to examine 58"little giant"firms in the sports field.The goal is to reveal the innovation and development pathways of SMEs in Sports and their synergistic effects.The findings are:①Sound policy support constitutes a necessary foundation for the innovation and development of SMEs in Sports,and its absence becomes a major obstacle to the cultivation of specialized and sophisticated enterprises that produce novel and unique products in Sports.②The configurational analysis reveals five pathways for cultivating specialized and sophisticated enterprises that produce novel and unique products in Sports,which,based on a diverse combination of core conditions and institutional environments,can be categorized into three innovation pathways for SMEs in Sports:policy-market-technology supplement,policy-market-technology linkage,and policy-technology supplement.Finally,to promote more SMEs in Sports to transform and upgrade towards specialized and sophisticated enterprises that produce novel and unique products,practical implications are proposed for governments and SMEs in Sports.
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