Abstract: Resource integration has become the source of competitiveness for Chinese sports industry.The large-scale questionnaire survey of Chinese sports enterprises and organizations by the authors shows that: (1) sports resource integration process has a significant positive effect on the innovation performance of sports enterprises.Resource identifying and accessing has an indirect effect on the innovation performance through resource allocation and utilization and resource integration capability, and resource allocation and utilization can improve the innovation performance directly; (2) sports resource integration process can cultivate and develop the sports enterprises' resource integration capability through the path of "resource identifying and accessing→resource allocation and utilization→resource integration capability"; (3) sports enterprises' resource integration capability has important mediating effect on the relationship between resource integration process and innovation performance.The study indicates that sports resource integration process and capability are important antecedents of sports enterprises' innovation performance.The conclusions can provide some enlightenment for Chinese sports enterprises' resource integration and management innovation.

Key words: resource integration, sports enterprises, innovation performance, sport industry, mechanism