The Impact of ‘institution-governance’ configuration on the Ambidextrous innovation of platform enterprises——Qualitative Comparative Analysis based on Fuzzy Set (fsQCA)

Abstract

Based on the system theory and principal-agent theory, the project choice of China's 95 platform enterprises as the research object, based on the comprehensive analysis of internal and external environment, consider the external institutional factors, internal governance structure optimization, select "system management" because of conditions before the configuration, using the fuzzy qualitative comparative analysis study on causal configuration (fsQCA), Further explore the role and influence mechanism of this conditional configuration in ambidextrous innovation activities of platform enterprises.It is found that board capital in internal governance factor and intellectual property protection in external institutional factor are the core conditions for high exploratory innovation behavior.For high development innovation behavior, the core conditions of high development innovation behavior are ownership concentration degree of internal governance factors, incentive mechanism and tax incentive of external governance factors.