刘灵芝,管理学博士,教授,博士生导师,国家水禽产业技术体系产业经济研究室主任、岗位科学家,湖北省畜牧业经济学会副秘书长,中国注册会计师。主要研究方向为畜牧业经济。先后主持完成国家社会科学基金面上项目1项,教育部人文社会科学研究项目2项。在《中国农村经济》、《农业经济问题》、《农业技术经济》、Frontiers in Environmental Science等国内外重要期刊发表论文90余篇,出版水禽产业经济等相关著作5部,主编《统计学》等教材3部。
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Contractual arrangement, contract execution and digital technology adoption: Evidence from meat duck farmers’ intelligent environmental control adoption
To clarify the mechanisms through which contractual arrangement and contract execution influence farmers’ adoption of digital technologies, this study is based on survey data from 1 197 meat duck farmers across ten provinces in China. Empirical analysis was conducted to examine the effects, underlying mechanisms, and heterogeneity of different contractual arrangements and contract execution by partner enterprises affect farmers’ adoption of intelligent environmental control technologies. The results indicated that: 1) Various types of contractual arrangements and contract execution significantly enhance technology adoption. 2) Mechanism analysis reveals that safeguard-oriented, support-oriented, and constraint-oriented contractual arrangements promote adoption through risk-buffering, cost-reduction, and environmental pressure mechanisms, respectively, while, effective contract execution by partner enterprises amplifies the adoption-promoting effects of these arrangements. 3) Heterogeneity analysis shows that contractual arrangements exert stronger effects among farmers operating in partner enterprise-owned farmhouses, whereas support-oriented arrangements are particularly effective for large-scale farmers and those with greater digital information acquisition ability. These findings suggest that partner enterprises should optimize contract design, establish sound supervision and incentive mechanisms for contract execution, and strengthen institutional alignment to better support relatively disadvantaged farmers.
刘灵芝,管理学博士,教授,博士生导师,国家水禽产业技术体系产业经济研究室主任、岗位科学家,湖北省畜牧业经济学会副秘书长,中国注册会计师。主要研究方向为畜牧业经济。先后主持完成国家社会科学基金面上项目1项,教育部人文社会科学研究项目2项。在《中国农村经济》、《农业经济问题》、《农业技术经济》、Frontiers in Environmental Science等国内外重要期刊发表论文90余篇,出版水禽产业经济等相关著作5部,主编《统计学》等教材3部。
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刘灵芝,管理学博士,教授,博士生导师,国家水禽产业技术体系产业经济研究室主任、岗位科学家,湖北省畜牧业经济学会副秘书长,中国注册会计师。主要研究方向为畜牧业经济。先后主持完成国家社会科学基金面上项目1项,教育部人文社会科学研究项目2项。在《中国农村经济》、《农业经济问题》、《农业技术经济》、Frontiers in Environmental Science等国内外重要期刊发表论文90余篇,出版水禽产业经济等相关著作5部,主编《统计学》等教材3部。
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