Influencing Paths of Local Government Emergency Management Effectiveness ——A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Based on 25 Typical Production Safety Accidents
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Emergency Management Effectiveness, Local Government, Work Safety Accidents, Configuration Paths.Abstract
This paper mainly explores the influence paths of local governments' emergency management effectiveness in China. Selecting 25 typical work safety accidents from 2022 to 2025 as samples, it adopts the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) method and builds an analytical model of six conditions based on the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework: media coverage, mobile Internet penetration rate, emergency material reserves, leading officials' meeting speeches, fiscal revenue scale, and Baidu Index. The study systematically identifies four configuration paths in order to achieve high effectiveness with characteristics of “hour-level response”. It finds that the “media-fiscal” combination is the backbone supporting path to generate high effectiveness while the marginal effect of material reserves is largely contingent on the synergies of information and fiscal conditions. Additionally, leading officials' speeches and public attention exhibit a certain substitution effect under specific circumstances. This paper further proposes a policy framework of "technology bottom line—condition matching", providing empirical evidence and institutional suggestions for addressing the dilemma of "high investment—low effectiveness" in grassroots emergency management.
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