Antecedent Configuration Study on Enterprise Market Convergence Under Environmental Uncertainty
Based on the resource-based view and organization configuration theory,26 Chinese industrial robot enterprises have been studied as cases by the TOE framework and fsQCA method to explore the configuration effects on market conver-gence.Under environmental uncertainty,seven antecedents have been grouped into three dimensions,i.e.,technology,or-ganization,and environment.The results show that every single antecedent condition cannot constitute a necessary condi-tion.Four types of configurations lead to high market convergence,i.e.,strong technology-driven,technology-resource combined,environment-driven,and environment-technology combined oriented.The antecedent configurations of non-high market convergence are divided into four types,showing asymmetric relationships with the high market convergence configurations.Accordinagly,relevant Management advices have bean proposed.