Abstract
Cooperative knowledge creation is important for the promotion of agricultural technology diffusion in “company plus farmers” alliance organizations in China. A coordination mechanism is necessary to improve cooperative knowledge creation. A game model was developed to explain the mechanism. The model’s equilibrium was analyzed in noncoordination and coordination scenarios. Eight propositions and two corollaries were proposed and then verified by numeric analysis. We found that (1) the coordination of cooperative knowledge creation is valuable for increasing profit in agricultural technology diffusion; (2) companies and farmers are playing a game, and subsidy coefficients and degree of effort mainly influence their decisions; (3) key factors in the game are success probability and profit sharing proportion that influence the profits of a company and the farmers; (4) discount factors also influence profits, but do not influence the total profit in the coordination scenario; and (5) enhancing success probability, choosing a proper profit sharing proportion, and improving other parameters would be beneficial to the development of knowledge creation, as well as agricultural knowledge diffusion. This research provides a novel illustration of the coordination mechanism for cooperative knowledge creation for increasing the efficiency of agricultural technology diffusion in the future.
Highlights
Agriculture is becoming increasingly dependent on the development of technology [1,2]
Since cooperative knowledge creation significantly contributes to agricultural technology diffusion, a coordination mechanism is urgently required to guarantee its performance, especially as this has not been widely discussed in the past
The research questions we aimed to answer were: (1) what role does the coordination of cooperative knowledge creation play in the process of agricultural technology diffusion? (2) How can agricultural technology diffusion be promoted from the perspective of coordinating the cooperative knowledge creation in company plus farmers organizations?
Summary
Agriculture is becoming increasingly dependent on the development of technology [1,2]. In China, “company plus farmers” is one of the most popular alliance organizations for agricultural technological diffusion [5]. Cooperation between companies and farmers is a process of technology diffusion and knowledge creation. Since cooperative knowledge creation significantly contributes to agricultural technology diffusion, a coordination mechanism is urgently required to guarantee its performance, especially as this has not been widely discussed in the past. The research questions we aimed to answer were: (1) what role does the coordination of cooperative knowledge creation play in the process of agricultural technology diffusion? (2) How can agricultural technology diffusion be promoted from the perspective of coordinating the cooperative knowledge creation in company plus farmers organizations?.
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