How do Digital Economy and Business Environment Stimulate the Emergence of SRDI Small and Medium-sized Enterprises?
This paper explores how the configuration of the business environment and digital economy stimulate the emer-gence of small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs)with specialization,refinement,differentiation,and innovation(SR-DI)based on the regional distribution data of 8997 SRDI enterprises using combined methods of NCA and QCA.The results show that a single element of the business environment or digital economy is not necessary for a vast quantity of SRDI SMEs,but improving the level of the human environment,market environment,and digital economy plays a universal role in genera-ting them.There are two driving paths for the considerable quantity of SRDI SMEs,namely,the humanities-law driving path supported by the digital economy and the humanities-government-market driving path assisted by the digital econo-my.There are two paths leading to the low quantity of SRDI SMEs,namely non-high market-humanities driven and non-high market-government driven.