How SMEs Can Achieve Disruptive Innovation in the Context of Digitalisation—Configuration Effect Study Based on fsQCA

颠覆性创新作为一种独特的创新模式，能够有效地打破现有的市场平衡，为企业带来突破性的竞争优势。因此，为了在激烈的竞争市场中立足，提升颠覆性创新水平成为企业亟待解决的问题。本文基于240家企业的样本数据，运用模糊集定性比较方法(fsQCA)，从大数据能力、组织敏捷性和资源编排能力层面探讨企业颠覆性创新的驱动因素以及等效路径。结果发现：1) 中小企业的颠覆性创新不是由单一因素驱动的，而是多种因素共同作用的结果；2) 存在9组中小企业实现颠覆性创新的条件组态，可以归纳为3种路径。研究结果丰富了颠覆性创新的相关研究，为中小企业开展颠覆性创新提供一定的理论指导。As a unique innovation mode, disruptive innovation can effectively break the existing market balance and bring breakthrough competitive advantages for enterprises. Therefore, in order to gain a foothold in the fiercely competitive market, improving the level of disruptive innovation has become an urgent problem for enterprises. Based on sample data from 240 enterprises, this paper applies the fuzzy set qualitative comparison approach (fsQCA) to explore the drivers of disruptive innovation and the equivalent paths of enterprises at the levels of big data capability, organisational agility and resource orchestration capability. The results found that: 1) disruptive innovation in SMEs is not driven by a single factor, but is the result of a combination of factors; 2) there exist nine sets of conditional groupings of SMEs to achieve disruptive innovation, which can be categorised into three paths. The findings enrich the related research on disruptive innovation and provide some theoretical guidance for SMEs to carry out disruptive innovation.