Resource dependence of agriculture cooperative in China

摘要

Established spontaneously by farmers to cope market economy, the worldwide success of agricultural cooperative (AC) showed its benefits for upgrading farmers' systematization level, resisting market risks and raising farmers' income eventually. Most researchers introduced foreign ACs' experience, analyzed the necessity of AC's existence and effects of institution transition to AC. Rarely research has been focused on resource dependence of AC's development. Based on resource theory, this paper finds clear significance of external resources, such as customer, government and human resources, to AC's performance by questionnaire survey and data analysis to 118 ACs in Wendeng City, Shandong, China.