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Analysis the Effects of Vegetables Cooperatives’ Collective Action Mechanism on Farmer’s Quality Control Behavior
Qing-song Wang and Li Qin
Corresponding Author: Li Qin
Submitted: September 13, 2012
Accepted: October 09, 2012
Published: December 20, 2012 |
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In view of the government and market mechanisms are likely to failure in the vegetable quality and safety
governance, as the third sector, vegetable cooperatives involvement provides a new way to solve the problem of the
quality and safety of vegetables. This study proposes five assumptions that vegetable professional cooperatives’
collective action mechanism affect of the farmers quality control behavior, select five dimensions such as trust,
collaboration, commitment, adaptability and investment specificity to measure the collaborative relationship
between the vegetable cooperatives and farmers. This study analysis with structural equation modeling, the results
show that collective action of vegetable cooperatives has a significant positive effect on vegetables quality control
standards, farmers trading environment and farmers factors endowments, vegetable trading environment has a
significant positive effect on the level of vegetable quality control; factors endowments has a positive effect on
farmers level of quality control, but the effect is not significant.
Key words: Collective action, quality control, vegetable cooperatives, , , ,
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Qing-song Wang and Li Qin, . Analysis the Effects of Vegetables Cooperatives’ Collective Action Mechanism on Farmer’s Quality Control Behavior. Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology, (6): 436-441.
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ISSN (Online): 2042-4876
ISSN (Print): 2042-4868 |
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