Grouping Analysis and Path Identification of Factors Influencing the Economic Resilience of Cities in the Yellow River Basin:An Examination Based on Dynamic QCA
The shaping of urban economic resilience has complex characteristics that combine dynamism and multi-perspective interactivity,leading to a certain degree of one-sided interpretation of urban economic resilience in empirical studies based on reductionist thinking.This paper takes the data from 70 prefecture level cities in the Yellow River Basin from 2014 to 2018 as a sample,and introduces the dynamic multi-temporal QCA method to analyze the influencing factor groupings of the economic resilience of the cities in the Yellow River Basin on the basis of the static QCA anal-ysis,and explores the development path of the economic resilience of the cities in the Yellow River Basin.It is found that:the generation of high urban economic resilience is not absolutely dominated by a single factor,but the result of the interaction of multiple factors,among which improving in-novation capacity plays a relatively universal role in generating high urban economic resilience.From the perspective of the combined effect of multiple concurrences,there are four paths that can drive high urban economic resilience,and the essence or core driving force of urban economic resili-ence will be swayed by governmental dynamism.In a few cases,the characteristics of urban indus-trial structure still play an important role in the face of external perturbations or shocks.The multi-temporal QCA further identifies the driving paths represented by innovation breakthrough and gov-ernment-led and the limiting paths represented by innovation-locked and innovation-restricted,in which the government's dynamic behaviors can go beyond the limitations of the urban structural factors.The polarization of innovation capacity has an opposite effect on urban economic resilience.From a configuration perspective,the study on the interaction between the influencing factors of ur-ban economic resilience in the Yellow River Basin to a certain extent promotes the study of urban e-conomic resilience from a single weighted variable to an overall multi-dimensional perspective.
Yellow River Basinurban economic resiliencedynamic QCApath recognition