To explore innovative pathways for the development of emergency management discipline and address its current bottlenecks, this study systematized the theoretical logic of emergency management discipline construction based on value co-creation theory and designed a four-dimensional framework encompassing goal optimization, community building, full-process value co-creation, and technological empowerment. The results indicate that China's emergency management discipline construction currently faces challenges including fragmented value cognition, insufficient stakeholder coordination, unbalanced resource allocation, and superficial technological empowerment. An integrated theoretical framework incorporating value coupling, community construction, full-process co-creation, and technological empowerment can be constructed to guide disciplinary practice. Applying value co-creation theory can address deep-seated contradictions in discipline construction, thereby promoting its transformation from fragmentation toward systematization.