The importance of employee innovation to enterprises is self-evident. Compared with formal innovation, creative deviance that is not constrained by the organization may be the norm of innovation in enterprises. However, prior research lacks a systematic exploration of how to energize employees' creative deviance. From the perspective of MOA theory, this study extracts six antecedent conditions of creative deviance at the levels of motivation, ability, and opportunity by using the rooted theory approach and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), and explores the multiple triggering mechanisms of employees' creative deviance. Taking employees of high-tech enterprises as a sample, we found three types of triggering paths for employees' creative deviance: (a) Ability-Driven, (b) Creativity-driven norm-breaking motives-Job autonomy Substitution (i.e.CNM-JA Substitution), and(c) Structural strain-Resource bricolage Combination (i.e.SS-RB Combination). The results of the study not only deepen and broaden the conditions for the formation of individual creative deviance, but also provide a reference for enterprises to adopt targeted innovation strategies.