Sustainability, Vol. 15, Pages 6120: Research on the Generating Mechanism of Urban Talent Competitiveness Based QCA Method: A Configurational Analysis of 24 Chinese Cities

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Sustainability, Vol. 15, Pages 6120: Research on the Generating Mechanism of Urban Talent Competitiveness Based QCA Method: A Configurational Analysis of 24 Chinese Cities

Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su15076120

Authors: Sike Liu Wuyi Wang

Talent competition is the core of urban competition; urban development needs strong talent competitiveness. This study applies configuration thinking and the QCA method through the integration of six influencing conditions, namely talent scale, talent structure, talent innovation, talent development, talent efficiency and talent living, it selects 24 Chinese cities as research cases, explores the generation mechanism of urban talent competitiveness. The results demonstrate that: (1) Talent scale, talent innovation, talent development and talent living are the key conditions for generating urban talent competitiveness; (2) The quality improvement mode, innovation leading mode and resource competitive mode are the main modes of generating urban talent competitiveness; the resource competitive mode is the most common combination of strategies for generating urban talent competitiveness; (3) Talent development and talent living have a substitution relationship in the process of generating urban talent competitiveness; (4) The configuration that hinders the generation of competitiveness and promotes the generation of competitiveness is asymmetric.

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