Research Article

Influencing Factors and Multiple Paths of Entrepreneurship in High-Tech Enterprises: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Configuration

Table 1

Definition of main variables.

TypeNameSignMeasurement

Outcome variableEntrepreneurshipESR&D fee/sales
Antecedent variablesManagement capabilityMAObtained by DEA-Tobit
Control power incentiveECComputed by assigning different weights to the five indices by entropy method
Equity incentiveMhShares held by senior directors/total stock issue
Salary incentivePayLog of the total salary of the top three senior directors
Government interventionGovLocal fiscal expenditure/local GDP
Market competitionCompReciprocal of industry HHI

Note: the signs of the outcome variable and antecedent variables are mostly the abbreviations of the English names of the variables. Data source: the data were organized by the authors.