Abstract
Agricultural industrialization consortia fully realize the organizational advantages of division of labor, risk sharing, and benefit sharing, which mainly rely on close cooperation of members under integrated governance, but the current influence mechanism on the intensity of cooperation is yet to be explored in depth. Using 40 member cooperatives of agricultural industrialization consortia in Sichuan Province as research samples, this paper explores the mechanism by which the configuration effects of five conditional factors at the levels of social capital and knowledge absorptive capacity can generate different cooperative intensity of cooperative participation in consortia using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis. It was found that (1) the driving mechanism of high cooperative intensity of cooperatives was divided into three paths; (2) the driving mechanism of non-high cooperative intensity of cooperatives was divided into two paths and had an asymmetric relationship with the driving mechanism of high cooperative intensity of cooperatives. The findings of this paper help to expand the research perspective on cooperative intensity at the level of social capital and knowledge absorptive capacity configuration, and provide useful insights for improving the cooperative intensity of cooperative participation in consortia and the cooperative tightness among consortium members.
Highlights
Agricultural industrialization consortium is the most cutting-edge organizational innovation form of integrated development of one, two, three industries in rural China, the core of which lies in the alliance of "leading enterprises + cooperatives + family farms", through the vertical dimension of The core is the alliance of "leading enterprises + cooperatives + family farms", which realizes the advantages of high division of labor, risk sharing and revenue sharing through "refinement of division of labor + factor integration" in vertical dimension and "scale expansion + market position enhancement" in horizontal dimension [1]
This paper uses the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach to investigate how social capital and knowledge absorptive capacity synergistically affect the cooperative intensity of cooperatives in consortia, using the "social capital knowledge absorptive capacity" configuration perspective? What specific influence paths exist? The results of the study can expand the research perspective on cooperation intensity from the perspective of social capital and knowledge absorptive capacity configuration, and provide insights for improving the cooperation intensity of cooperatives in consortia and the cooperation tightness among consortium members
Zhang Jianyu [37] proposed that knowledge absorptive capacity makes the work of the subject more proactive, and this type of cooperative society is more inclined to achieve win-win through its own knowledge absorptive capacity, but in practice, it is often due to the strong homogeneity of consortium members, the long geographical span or the unfamiliarity among members, etc., and fewer business contacts can be established with other members, while the consortium is less likely to organize collective activities such as training sessions and symposiums, making cooperatives more difficult to obtain technical dividends and order profits in participating in consortia, inhibiting the tendency to cooperate in participating in consortia
Summary
Agricultural industrialization consortium (referred to as "consortium") is the most cutting-edge organizational innovation form of integrated development of one, two, three industries in rural China, the core of which lies in the alliance of "leading enterprises + cooperatives + family farms", through the vertical dimension of The core is the alliance of "leading enterprises + cooperatives + family farms", which realizes the advantages of high division of labor, risk sharing and revenue sharing through "refinement of division of labor + factor integration" in vertical dimension and "scale expansion + market position enhancement" in horizontal dimension [1]. Social capital and knowledge absorptive capacity have mostly studied the net effect on the depth of cooperation from a single perspective, but in reality the two tend to jointly influence the depth of cooperation, and at the same time the depth of cooperation as a complex result of the interaction of multiple elements, it is difficult for a single element to make an adequate explanation, and there is a lack of research on the mechanism of the role of social capital and knowledge absorptive capacity in the group state. This paper uses the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) approach to investigate how social capital and knowledge absorptive capacity synergistically affect the cooperative intensity of cooperatives in consortia, using the "social capital knowledge absorptive capacity" configuration perspective? What specific influence paths exist? The results of the study can expand the research perspective on cooperation intensity from the perspective of social capital and knowledge absorptive capacity configuration, and provide insights for improving the cooperation intensity of cooperatives in consortia and the cooperation tightness among consortium members
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