A Multi-Pathway Study on the Impact of the Business Environment on Digital Elderly Care Services in China

Abstract

A high-quality business environment contributes to unleashing the innovative vitality of market, what kind of business environment can promote the the construction of digital elderly care services is an important issue worthy of attention. Utilizing spatial visualization methods, we unveil distinct regional heterogeneity in the provincial distribution of digital elderly care services. Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta leading the way. To understand this pattern, we engage the fuzzy-set qualitative analysis and examine the configuration of six equivalent pathways for the the business environment on digital elderly care services. In general, we find digital talent aggregation and government public expenditure playing a deterministic role in all configurations and offer recommendations for the innovative development of digital elderly care services under different digital resource endowments.