Exploring Factors Influencing the HQDMI in the Yellow River Basin: A Grounded Theory Approach
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review and Theoretical Basis
2.1. The High-Quality Development of the Manufacturing Industry
2.2. Research on Influencing Factors of the HQDMI
2.3. Theoretical Basis for the HQDMI
3. Research Methods and Data Sources
3.1. Research Methods
3.2. Interview Outline
3.3. Collection of Data
4. Identification Process of the HQDMI in the Yellow River Basin
4.1. Open Coding
4.2. Axial Coding
4.3. Selective Coding
4.4. Theoretical Saturation Test
5. Identification Results of Influencing Factors and Model Interpretation
5.1. Endogenous Factors for the HQDMI
5.2. Exogenous Factors for the HQDMI
6. Discussion
7. Conclusions and Recommendations
7.1. Conclusions
7.2. Theoretical Contributions
7.3. Managerial Implications
7.4. Limitations and Future Research
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Appendix B
Industry | Enterprise Name | Location |
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Manufacture of Automobile | Shaanxi Automobile Holding Group Co., Ltd. | Xi’an, Shaanxi |
Yutong Group Co., Ltd. | Zhengzhou, Henan | |
Weichai Holding Group Co., Ltd. | Weifang, Shandong | |
Smelting and Pressing of Non-ferrous Metals | Western Mining Group Co., Ltd. | Xining, Qinghai |
Henan Sunho Group Co., Ltd. | Shangqiu, Henan | |
Jinchuan Group Co., Ltd. | Jinchang, Gansu | |
Tianyuan Manganese Industry Group Co., Ltd. | Zhongwei, Ningxia | |
Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Holding Group Co., Ltd. | Xi’an, Shaanxi | |
Manufacture of Railway, Ship, Aerospace, and other Transport Equipment | AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd. | Chengdu, Sichuan |
CRRC Datong Co., Ltd. | Datong, Shanxi | |
Manufacture of Foods | New Hope Group | Chengdu, Sichuan |
Mengniu Dairy Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. | Hohhot, Inner Mongolia | |
Yili Industrial Group Limited by Share Ltd. | Hohhot, Inner Mongolia | |
Manufacture of Paper and Paper Products | MCC Meili Cloud Computing Industry Investment Co., Ltd. | Yinchuan, Ningxia |
Manufacture of Raw Chemical Material and Chemical Products | Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co., Ltd. | Geermu, Qinghai |
Henan Energy Chemical Group Co., Ltd. | Zhengzhou, Henan | |
Processing of Food from Agricultural Products | Tongwei Group | Chengdu, Sichuan |
Manufacture of Metal Products | Sichuan Kexin Co., Ltd. | Deyang, Sichuan |
Smelting and Pressing of Ferrous Metals | Xining Special Steel Co., Ltd. | Xining, Qinghai |
Jiuquan Iron & Steel (Group) Co., Ltd. | Jiayuguan, Gansu | |
Taiyuan Iron & Steel (Group) Co., Ltd. | Taiyuan, Shanxi | |
Manufacture of General-Purpose Machinery | Luoyang LYC Bearing Co., Ltd. | Luoyang, Henan |
Weihua Group Co., Ltd. | Xinxiang, Henan | |
Henan Kuangshan Crane Co., Ltd. | Xinxiang, Henan | |
Processing of Petroleum, Coal, and Other Fuels | Shandong Energy Group Co., Ltd. | Jinan, Shandong |
Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co., Ltd. | Yan’an, Shaanxi | |
Manufacture of Special Purpose Machinery | YTO Group Corporation | Luoyang, Henan |
China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd. | Zhengzhou, Henan | |
CITIC Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. | Luoyang, Henan | |
Manufacture of Electrical Machinery and Apparatus | Qinghai Energy Development Group Co., Ltd. | Xining, Qinghai |
Manufacture of Computer, Communication, and Other Electronic Equipment | AVIC JONHON Optronic Technology Co., Ltd. | Luoyang, Henan |
Haier Group | Tsingtao, Shandong |
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Original Statement | Initial Concept | Category |
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The deep integration of government, industry, education, and research promotes a higher level of development. (D-03-2) | a1 Government-industry-university-research cooperation | A1 Technological innovation |
Promote the formation, transformation, and application of scientific and technological achievements, and improve the maturity of production technology. (G-01-1) | a2 Transformation of scientific and technological achievements | |
Accelerate the construction of high-level scientific research platforms and continuously enhance the quantity and quality of intellectual property rights. (D-04-1) | a3 Research platforms | |
Strengthen the construction of scientific and technological talent teams. (C-03-1) | a4 Scientific research team | |
The company continues to strengthen high-end product research and development, and increase investment in scientific research. (F-02-3) | a5 R&D expenditures | |
Promote enterprise process innovation and ensure product quality. (C-03-1) | a6 Process innovation | |
To maintain a counter trend growth trend through continuous product innovation, deepening retail transformation, global operations, and multi brand operations. (A-03-2) | a7 Brand innovation | |
Jinchuan Group strengthened its opening up and cooperation, and actively participated in the construction of the “Belt and Road”. (G-03-1) | a8 International open cooperation | |
In terms of products, a series of differentiated health selling point products and solutions have been launched to meet the changes in local consumer demand during the epidemic. (A-02-1) | a9 Series of differentiated products | |
Enterprises enhance brand influence with high-quality after-sales service. (G-02-2) | a10 Excellent after-sales service | A2 Service innovation |
Continuously improve service capabilities and strive to create more and greater value for customers, shareholders, and society. (B-04-5) | a11 Service ability | |
Yili Company continuously improves the consumer service system, unblocks communication channels, and continuously explores the potential needs of consumers (E-02-2) | a12 Consumer services | |
Continuously deepen management system reform, do a good job in analysis, diagnosis, and lean management. (D-04-1) | a13 Management system | A3 Management innovation |
The level of enterprise management needs to be improved. (I-02-1) | a14 Operation and management | |
Effectively strengthen the forecasting, control, and supervision functions of finance, and avoid the “double skin” phenomenon of planning and finance caused by traditional management systems. (G-01-1) | a15 Financial management | |
Build a risk management platform and continuously optimize it to promote further improvement of risk management capabilities. (C-03-3) | a16 Risk management | |
Enterprises implement a reasonable and scientific method of safety subject responsibility system and clear safety management responsibilities. (H-02-1) | a17 Safety management | |
Continuously improve the entire industry chain quality management system of “from pasture to milk cup”. (E-01-1) | a18 Quality assurance | |
Invest 112.94 million yuan, eliminate and update 66 sets of equipment, reduce energy consumption, and ensure safe, stable, and efficient operation of equipment. (I-04-1) | a19 Device management | |
Improve corporate brand influence with high-quality after-sales service (G-02-2) | a20 Enterprise brand | A4 Marketing innovation |
Inadequate emphasis on product marketing. (I-02-1) | a21 Product marketing | |
Further deepen cooperation with civil aviation transportation enterprises, innovate business models, and explore new paths for product demonstration and application. (H-03-1) | a22 Innovation of business model | |
The complex and volatile global economic environment and the sudden COVID-19 have brought many difficulties and challenges to the development of the industry. (E-02-1) | a23 Global economic environment | A5 Business environment |
The global market environment has created new market opportunities for enterprises. (B-05-4) | a24 Global market environment | |
Due to insufficient financial service capabilities, large investments in platform construction, and long return cycles, the current support of the capital market for the platform needs to be further improved. (B-03-1) | a25 Financial service | |
The complex and volatile global economic environment and the sudden COVID-19 have brought many difficulties and challenges to the development of the industry. (E-02-1) | a26 Impact of COVID-19 | |
The government has clearly promoted the development of new energy vehicles as a national strategy, drawing a grand blueprint for the development of new energy vehicles in the next 15 years. (F-02-3) | a27 National development Strategy | |
In the long run, we should reform the tax system, reduce taxes and lighten burdens, and make enterprises light. (H-02-2) | a28 Policy | A6 Policy environment |
High-quality development is guaranteed by policies, laws, and regulations. (J-02-1) | a29 Law and regulation system | |
The implementation and guidance of local governments on new development concepts and high-quality development. (B-02-1) | a30 Government guidance | |
We are committed to cultivating talents at multiple levels, in all directions, and across fields, improving the construction of talent cultivation systems, and standardizing the promotion system to provide employees with a clear development path. (E-01-2) | a31 Employee development | A7 Human capital |
Build a bridge between employees and the enterprise through employee interviews, customer service consulting, and symposiums, listen to employees’ voices, and stimulate their enthusiasm for suggestions. (E-02-2) | a32 Employee communication channels | |
Stimulating the creativity of all employees and emphasizing the differentiated and high-quality development path of original scientific and technological innovation is the most important topic in China’s home appliance industry today. (A-02-1) | a33 Employee creativity | |
Use a flexible talent cultivation and introduction mechanism to enhance the “soft power” of enterprises and comprehensively shape new advantages for development. (I-04-1) | a34 Talent support | |
Ensure unity of thought, and comprehensively promote the high-quality development of the group company. (B-05-9) | a35 Ideological style | A8 Style construction |
Strengthen the process orientation of implementing “targeted” treatment and make great efforts to consolidate the effectiveness of style building. (C-03-4) | a36 Work style | |
The passion of corporate leaders is a core element in achieving high-quality development. (A-03-1) | a37 Leadership style | |
Strengthen the cohesive force of the leadership, improve the executive force of the management department, and enhance the centripetal force of grass-roots employees. (B-05-7) | a38 Corporate solidarity | A9 Corporate culture |
Greater efforts will be made to stimulate and protect entrepreneurship. (D-01-1) | a39 Entrepreneurship | |
The new generation of post-1980s and post-1990s young scientific and technological workers have a national spirit of serving the country and contributing to the equipment manufacturing industry. (A-03-2) | a40 Culture atmosphere | |
Guide the company’s employees to fully establish the development concept and working thinking of informatization, digitalization and intelligence, and active learning and master new technologies. (C-03-3) | a41 Development concept | |
Adhering to the core concept of “advocating craftsmanship, promoting development through quality, and increasing efficiency through quality”, we have achieved a deep integration of the company’s quality culture philosophy and production and operation management. (D-04-2) | a42 Craftsman’s spirit | |
Without a profound quality change, high-quality development is difficult to achieve. (B-02-1) | a43 High-quality development awareness | |
A good natural environment is the starting point for healthy breeding and the source of high-quality products. (E-01-2) | a44 Ecological protection | A10 Green development |
Continuously strengthen environmental control and improve the level of environmental governance of enterprises. (D-03-1) | a45 Environmental management and control | |
Mengniu is committed to continuously reducing environmental pollution and carbon footprint in the warehousing process, reducing cargo losses and food waste. (E-01-2) | a46 Green economy | |
Lay out the new energy industry, promote product upgrading, and vigorously implement green manufacturing. (A-03-1) | a47 Green development | |
Extend the planning of follow-up industries and promote the coordinated development of the industrial chain. (G-01-2) | a48 Coordinated development of industrial chain | A11 Industrial chain and supply chain |
Improve the efficiency of warehousing and logistic and improve operational efficiency with an order. (B-03-1) | a49 Internal supply chain | |
Strengthen the logistics and transportation support role of equipment manufacturing products. (A-03-1) | a50 External supply chain | |
Improve the supply chain management system to achieve accurate docking between the supply side and the demand side. (A-03-1) | a51 Supply chain management level | |
Yili Company actively supports and empowers upstream and downstream partners in the industrial chain, providing technical and financial support for cooperative farms, suppliers, distributors, etc. (E-02-2) | a52 Industrial chain extending downstream | |
The low market concentration ratio makes low-end products over compete in the domestic market, the scale advantage is weak, and the production cost of enterprises is high, resulting in unreasonable resource allocation of the industry. (J-03-1) | a53 Industrial concentration | A12 Industrial agglomeration |
The agglomeration of talent, capital, and technology into the manufacturing industry. (G-01-1) | a54 Agglomeration of production factors | |
The Group will continue to anchor high-quality development goals, focus on its main business and deepen reform and innovation. (D-04-1) | a55 Focus on the main business | A13 Industrial structure |
Promoting supply-side structural reform is conducive to the high-quality development of enterprises. (B-05-6) | a56 Supply-side structural reform | |
The Group continues to increase investment in project construction and promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. (G-01-1) | a57 Transformation and upgrading | |
Intelligent manufacturing has become the first choice for enterprises to transform and upgrade to achieve curve overtaking. (I-03-2) | a58 Intelligent | A14 Intelligent technology |
Mengniu continues to promote the complete transformation of digitization. (E-01-2) | a59 Digitalization | |
Improve the information management and control guarantee system and consolidate the foundation of information technology support. (D-03-1) | a60 Informatization | |
Comprehensively comb the information management system, learn from advanced enterprise management experience, and actively build the company’s “1 + N” system. (G-01-2) | a61 Informatization management system | |
Yili continuously promotes the integration of the local markets and international markets. (E-02-2) | a62 Establish multiple manufacturing centers around the world | A15 Resource Integration |
With the completion of the acquisition of Candy in Italy, Haier Zhijia has owned seven global brands, including GEA in the United States, Candy in Italy, and AQUA in Japan. (A-02-1) | a63 Global business layout | |
Deepen localized manufacturing layout and intercontinental operations and establish 109 manufacturing centers and 22 global interconnected factories worldwide. (A-02-1) | a64 Mergers and acquisitions of overseas companies | |
Building a higher level open new system. (C-03-4) | a65 Expand opening | A16 Opening development |
The construction of the “Belt and Road” economic belt will help Chinese enterprises go global. (B-05-2) | a66 Optimize the open structure | |
Introduce graduates and global mid- and high-end talents on a large scale. (A-03-2) | a67 Improve open quality | |
From the perspective of user needs, leading industry reform, and innovation. (A-02-6) | a68 Customer demand | A17 Customer orientation |
Improve product quality and customer satisfaction in all aspects. (C-03-3) | a69 Customer value | |
The supply of high-end and high-quality products and services is insufficient, making it difficult to meet the needs of residents for consumption upgrading. (B-03-2) | a70 Consumption ability | |
Satisfy consumers’ personalized and refined needs with transparent, satisfactory, and comprehensive services. (E-02-2) | a71 Consumption preference | |
Actively take measures to defeat the attacks of competitors and further increase market share. (H-01-1) | a72 Competitor Business Strategy | A18 Competition orientation |
Internal homogeneous competition is no longer new, as each company has similar products and similar technologies. (H-01-1) | a73 Number of Competitors | |
Make the user experience more targeted and bring lifelong and comprehensive care to users. In this process, users, enterprises, and ecological parties have also achieved a win-win situation. (A-02-4) | a74 Enterprises, users, and ecological parties can create a win-win situation | A19 Stakeholder Collaboration |
Become a social enterprise that simultaneously wins consumer trust, market competition, and the recognition of all stakeholders. (E-02-1) | a75 All stakeholders agree | |
“Building a new type of political business relationship” has been set as the permanent theme of the annual meeting. (H-01-2) | a76 New government business relationship | |
Adhere to putting the political construction of the Party in the first place. (D-03-2) | a77 Political building | A20 Party building |
Strengthening supervision is an important part of building a good party conduct and clean government in enterprises and is also an effective way to prevent corruption from the source. (D-03-2) | a78 Construction of honest administration | |
Adhering to the Party’s leadership and strengthening Party building is a glorious tradition of state-owned enterprises. (I-02-1) | a79 Party leadership | |
The competitiveness of the metal industry is not strong. (D-01-1) | a80 Weak competitiveness | A21 Industry foundation |
Environmental pollution in the metal industry is prominent. (D-01-1) | a81 Prominent environmental pollution | |
The problems of decentralized enterprise layout and inefficient resource allocation affect the high-quality development of local economy. (G-01-3) | a82 Low efficiency of resource allocation | |
Due to the large initial investment and long construction period, the shortage of project capital has long plagued the acceleration and upgrading of transport infrastructure construction in the western region. (G-01-3) | a83 Shortage of project capital | |
Enterprise information infrastructure and Digital transformation are relatively weak. (B-03-1) | a84 Weak digital Foundation |
Connotation of Relationship | Subcategory | Main Category |
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Technological innovation is the re-organization of production conditions and elements to establish a production management system with stronger performance, higher efficiency, and lower costs in order to introduce new products and new production (process) methods, and thus open up new markets. | A1 Technological innovation | AA1 Innovation capability |
Manufacturing companies can meet the challenges of commoditization and remain profitable through service innovation; this is the reengineering of service processes to increase beneficial interactions. Service innovation has become an effective method for manufacturing enterprises to obtain new competitive advantages. | A2 Service innovation | |
Comprehensively deepen the innovation of the management system and mechanism, and constantly break the bottleneck and barriers of the management system of enterprise development, which can liberate and stimulate the high-quality development of the enterprise to the greatest extent. | A3 Management innovation | |
Marketing innovation is helpful for enterprises to adapt to the changing market environment. Advanced marketing concepts and marketing methods can increase the market share of products. | A4 Marketing innovation | |
People play a dominant role in the dynamic and coordinated operation of achieving high-quality development. Excellent human capital allocation is a fundamental guarantee for enterprise talent competition and provides strong intellectual support for the HQDMI. | A7 Human capital | AA2 Organization construction |
An excellent corporate style can create an atmosphere of integrity, innovation, responsibility, and hard work within the enterprise, and enhance the sense of mission, responsibility and urgency of cadres and employees. | A8 Style construction | |
An excellent corporate culture not only cultivates moral sentiment and creates a harmonious atmosphere, but also fully mobilizes the enthusiasm and creativity of cadres and workers to participate in the high-quality development of the enterprise. | A9 Corporate culture | |
As an indispensable political resource for Chinese enterprises, party building is a powerful guarantee for enterprises to build a modern enterprise system and achieve high-quality development. | A20 Party building | |
Every stakeholder has their own role in promoting the development of an enterprise. Therefore, balancing various stakeholders is an important basis for promoting the high-quality development of an enterprise. | A19 Stakeholder collaboration | |
Extending to the high end of the value chain, promoting the gradual transformation of the industry from manufacturing to production service. Industrial structure adjustment is the key path to coordinate the sustainable development of manufacturing and environmental protection. | A13 Industrial structure | AA3 Industry resources |
Industrial foundation plays a fundamental role in the development of enterprises, restricts and determines the development of other industries, and also determines and reflects the direction and speed of industry resources. | A21 Industrial foundation | |
By integrating global innovation resources, especially overseas mergers and acquisitions, obtaining reverse technology spillover is an important growth mechanism for enterprises to gain competitive advantage, and it is a key way for enterprises to break the “low-end lock-in”. | A15 Resource integration | |
Understanding and absorbing the internal needs of consumers, and making further efforts to meet their current real needs and possible future potential needs, is conducive to enterprises grasping the market and user trends, and striving to develop services that adapt to the market to better meet customer needs. | A17 Customer orientation | AA4 Market demand |
Competitive orientation is an important means for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness. This requires companies to be able to anticipate and respond to market changes faster than their competitors, adjust their marketing strategies before their competitors, and then develop more advanced and competitive services before their competitors. | A18 Competition orientation | |
The new generation of information technology is promoting the accelerated reconstruction of the global industrial chain and supply chain. Intelligence has become the main direction of transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. Cultivating new growth drivers is a solid foundation for the HQDMI. | A14 Intelligent technology | AA5 Industry collaboration |
The development of manufacturing clusters with reasonable functional layouts, clear leading industries, agglomeration of resource elements, and characteristic dislocation development is an important form of the HQDMI. Improving industrial agglomeration is a powerful measure to promote the HQDMI. | A12 Industrial agglomeration | |
A perfect industry chain and supply chain play an important role in giving play to the cost advantage of enterprises. At the same time, they enable manufacturing enterprises to respond to market demand faster, and to better adapt to the personalized development direction of market demand. | A11 Industry chain and supply chain | |
A friendly business environment can increase the number of foreign investments and ensure the vitality of market players. A convenient, active, fair, and open business environment has a direct impact on the business development of enterprises in the region. | A5 Business environment | AA6 Institutional environment |
Government industrial policy is a factor that promotes and guides the HQDMI. A good policy environment can promote the enthusiasm of manufacturing enterprises for high-quality development. | A6 Policy environment | |
Green is the inherent requirement of the HQDMI and the fundamental way to realize the development of manufacturing industry and ecological protection. Promoting energy efficiency and implementing green development is an inevitable choice to promote the HQDMI. | A10 Green development | |
Internationalization will force manufacturing enterprises to continuously improve their technological innovation, product quality and brand creation. Enhancing innovation in the process of open development is an effective way for the manufacturing industry to expand its development space and accelerate its march toward the middle and high end. | A16 Opening development |
Typical Relationship Structure | Connotation of Relationship Structure |
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Innovation capability | Innovation capability, as an important support for the core competitiveness of enterprises, promotes the evolution of enterprises to a stage of finer division of labor, more rational structure, and more advanced form. It plays a key role in achieving innovation-driven development of manufacturing enterprises, improving labor productivity and economic efficiency, and transforming the existing economic growth model. |
Organization construction | Organization is the ability to interact and coordinate various functions within an enterprise and is a strategic resource for gaining a competitive advantage. It is a strategic resource for gaining a competitive advantage. It is the ability to accumulate valuable resources that are in different states and unevenly distributed among different business units and employees within the company under the integration of corporate goals. It is the basic capability of an organization to obtain key resources that are superior and not easily imitated by the outside world through the integration of relevant resources among business units within the enterprise. |
Industry resources | Industry resources include industrial base, industrial structure, and resource integration. The industrial base is the basic support for industry formation and development, and industrial base capability determines the overall quality of a country or region’s industry; industrial structure upgrading is conducive to improving resource utilization efficiency and economic growth efficiency; and resource integration refers to optimizing resource allocation through integration to enhance its various dynamic capabilities, which can promote the development quality of enterprises. |
Institutional environment | The institutional environment plays an important role in the economic development of a country or region for the production and operation activities of enterprises. A good institutional environment not only directly motivates enterprises to actively carry out innovative activities and achieve the optimal allocation of economic resources, but also indirectly promotes enterprises to maximize the access to external resources. |
Industry collaboration | Industry collaboration refers to the dynamic combination process of collaboration and crossover of industries and common technologies under specific spatial and temporal conditions. Through the effects of factor coupling, industrial division of labor deepening and extension, industrial association and complementarity, technology spillover, etc. to enhance the regional industrial innovation capability, promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, and then promote the high-quality development of regional economy. |
Market demand | Market demand refers to the direction of development in which enterprises collect market information and adjust their business directions and models based on market information. The role of this strategy is particularly important from the perspective of corporate organizational culture, which emphasizes the ability to collect information not only from a consumer-oriented perspective but also from a competitor-oriented perspective. |
Original Statement | Concept |
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Stamp duty is not conducive to the construction of a new pattern of “dual circulation” | Reform the tax system |
Multiple well-known scientific research institutions at home and abroad are conducting strategic cooperation | Research platform |
China’s ability to transform basic research and scientific technology into engineering technology is too weak | Industrial foundation |
The prerequisite for developing intelligent manufacturing is that enterprises have a very good management foundation and technological accumulation | Management system |
Accelerating the upgrade of emission regulations will effectively force the internal combustion engine industry to upgrade its technology and accelerate the realization of upgrading and surpassing | Environmental control |
Manufacturing enterprises’ informatization foundation is uneven, and they cannot skillfully apply the Industrial Internet platform | Romotion of information technology |
The cultural conflicts among the subsidiaries of the group, especially overseas subsidiaries, hinder the development of the enterprise | Enterprise centripetal force |
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Su, Y.; Shi, J.; Zhang, M. Exploring Factors Influencing the HQDMI in the Yellow River Basin: A Grounded Theory Approach. Sustainability 2023, 15, 7036. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097036
Su Y, Shi J, Zhang M. Exploring Factors Influencing the HQDMI in the Yellow River Basin: A Grounded Theory Approach. Sustainability. 2023; 15(9):7036. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097036
Chicago/Turabian StyleSu, Yongqiang, Jinfa Shi, and Manman Zhang. 2023. "Exploring Factors Influencing the HQDMI in the Yellow River Basin: A Grounded Theory Approach" Sustainability 15, no. 9: 7036. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097036