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Influencing factors and paths of upgrading consumer goods industry in Shanghai: a FsQCA approach

Lei Shen (Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai, China)
Cong Sun (Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai, China)
Muhammad Ali (School of Economics and Management, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, China) (School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China)

International Journal of Emerging Markets

ISSN: 1746-8809

Article publication date: 22 December 2021

Issue publication date: 21 November 2023

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Abstract

Purpose

This study examines the factors that influence the improvement of the consumer goods sector in three dimensions (technology, internal factors and external environment) for exploring the upgrading paths of Shanghai's consumer goods industry.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper targeted eight sub-industries of consumer goods as case studies, including food processing, and investigated from qualitative and quantitative perspectives using the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework.

Findings

The study confirms the diversity of paths to promote the upgrading of the consumer goods industry in Shanghai, and three paths are summarized in this paper. The “human–environment” linkage upgrade path is to bring sufficient economic contribution to help industrial upgrading by expanding market share, and this path is suitable for large enterprises in the industry to adopt; the “internal factor aggregation” upgrading path is to strengthen the aggregation effect of resources, form industrial clusters and link high human aggregation with industrial aggregation to exert leverage to transform and upgrade the consumer goods industry, and this path is suitable for SMEs in the industry to adopt; the “technology–environment” linkage upgrade path is to use technological factors for product innovation to occupy a favorable market position, to obtain high economic returns and realize industrial upgrading under the joint action of technology and external environment, and this path is suitable for high-tech enterprises to adopt.

Originality/value

Shanghai still has a large area for growth toward foreign metropolises, under the backdrop of the strong development of new manufacturing. Also, to diversify their investment portfolio, the consumer goods industry should focus on population, job density and industrial growth while looking into industrial aggregation.

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Citation

Shen, L., Sun, C. and Ali, M. (2023), "Influencing factors and paths of upgrading consumer goods industry in Shanghai: a FsQCA approach", International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. 18 No. 10, pp. 4214-4231. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-04-2021-0603

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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