Relationship quality in the vertical collaboration of vegetable farmers: evidence from the North China Plain

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 9

Published: April 2, 2025

Close collaboration between vegetable farmers and downstream stakeholders is crucial for integrating into modern agricultural supply chains, helping them manage market uncertainties improving their economic outcomes. Based on the Stimulus - Organism Response (SOR) model social embeddedness theory, this study adopts a moderated mediation utilizes survey data from 1,014 in North China Plain to analyze how relationship quality influences farmers’ participation vertical collaboration. Our findings indicate that significantly enhances willingness engage collaboration, particularly production contract arrangements. Furthermore, promotes through enhancing perceived value, with business environment moderating effect. Heterogeneity analyses reveal notable differences, among Chinese cabbage growers members of cooperatives, highlighting targeted opportunities strengthening This emphasizes need building robust interpersonal networks farmers, creating favorable environment, optimizing mechanisms, implementing policies different categories, thereby providing both theoretical insights practical guidance modernization.

Language: Английский

Entrepreneurial Bricolage, Business Model Innovation, and Sustainable Entrepreneurial Performance of Digital Entrepreneurial Ventures: The Moderating Effect of Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Empowerment

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(18), P. 8168 - 8168

Published: Sept. 19, 2024

Digital entrepreneurial ventures are increasingly embracing a high-quality development trajectory that prioritizes green, low-carbon, and sustainable practices, necessitating ongoing environmental enhancements the active assumption of social responsibilities alongside economic progress. Despite this, there is significant disparity in performance among these ventures, highlighting need for an in-depth exploration underlying factors. This study develops theoretical framework links bricolage to business model innovation ultimately performance, all within context digital ecosystem (DEE). The research focuses on 371 operating DEE, examining relationships effects variables. findings indicate has positive impact performance. Furthermore, found foster innovation, which turn, enhances investigation demonstrates partially mediates link between Additionally, DEE’s empowering influence shown positively regulate connection as well effect DEE also exerts moderating indirect mediated by stemming from bricolage. underscores significance entrepreneurship ecosystem, demonstrating startups ought augment their skills leverage ecosystem’s support attain enduring conclusions drawn this offer valuable insights serve reference strategies aimed at enhancing DEE.

Language: Английский