A Study On The Development Of Farmer Cooperatives In China

Farmer cooperatives have arisen quietly in rural areas in China since reform and opening up and have been developing quickly. The institutional arrangement not only comprises the complex mechanism of interests that exists in Chinse rural society,but also involves the special constraint conditions that occur institutional supply of domestic agriculture and countryside.Additionally,it indicates the institutional prospect of the economic development of Chinese rural society.On one hnad, it changes the operation models of farmers and organization structure of agricultural industry on the other hand, it also brings about the institutional arrangement issues for the cooperatives itself. The main questions concering the farmer cooperatives are as follows:Is there any survial room for farmer cooperatives?Why farmer cooperative in China usually adopt a. developing way depending on the extenal force? What are the Places of the investors, Operators and Patronizers in the ownership structure of the existing farmer specialized cooperatives? Who and what benefit from the developmen of cooperatives and what are their way of making profits and shares?How about their future development? When the dim definition of property right of cooperatives is universally criticized by economists, how to define the property right of farmer cooperatives in China? Have cooperatives established comparatively perfect governance structure? What are the features of principal-agent relations of cooperatives? What factors affect the above institutional arrangement of cooperatives?The core of the paper is to use the concerned the theories of new classical economics and new instiutional economics to answer the above questions.Answers to all the questions are based on the general theories of coopeartives and with the full consideration of the full factors a such as small production scale, diversified operation and strong heterogeneiy to farm households in China. Based on the logical odrer of the researchs on modern enterprise theories and the data or from my field surveys, the paper consists of twelves chapeters:Chapter 1:Introduction.This chapter firstly presents the research background,the purpose and significance of the dissertation,and then briefly summarizes and evaluates the dynamics of domestic and international research on the study of ideas.Finally,the chapter puts forward the methods and possible innovations.Chapter2:The connotation and functions of farmer cooperatives.The essence and the organizational border of cooperatives are emphasized in this chapter. The chapter also defines clearly some confused concept on farmer cooperatives and identifies the reseach of objects of the papaer.Chapter3:The general theoretical desriptions of farmer cooperatives.This chapter mainly reviews literature on cooperatives and introduces the achievements and latest development of coopeartives within and outside China.Each of the remained chapter basically focuses on one aspect of the institutional arrangement of cooperatives to achieve a full understanding of the institutional arrangement of farmer cooperatives in China.Chapter4:The practice and experience of overseas cooperatives organizations.This chapter reviews farmer cooperatives development in the USA,Germany,Japan and Taiwan,summarizes the experiences and implications,and reveals that specialized agricultural production,development of market,establishment of internal organization principle and perfection of the mechanism,cooperative education and government support are positive factors in promoting farmer cooperative development in China.Chapter5:On generating mechanism of Chinese farmer cooperatives.In this chaper, based on the theoretical foundation of new classical economics and new institutional economics, constructe an explanatory framework of generating mechanism of farmer cooperatives.from bob microeconomics, middle range and macroeconomics angles.Chapter 6:Achievements and the existence question of Chinese farmer cooperativesBased on the theoretical foundation of new classical economics and new institutional economics, constructed a achievements analysis frame of farmer cooperatives from macroscopic, the intermediate perspective and the microscopic stratification plane, reveal the factor of affecting its development through the simulated method, provides a reference system for the farmer cooperative.This chapter also in the achievements appraisal's foundation, pointed out existing question of farmer cooperatives in our country.Chapter7:Principle of the development of Chinese farmer cooperativesThis chapter reviewed principle of the classics cooperatives, has discussed vicissitude agent and the evolution tendency of the cooperative principle from the view of collective action's, the principle's core of cooperatives, in the end proposed the basic principle which farmer cooperatives in our country must follow.Chapter8:The arrangements of property rights of Chinese farmer cooperatives.This chapter briefly reviewed the analysis frame of the property right theory;analyzed the rationality and limited of traditional cooperatives in property right,discussed the farmer vicissitude of property right structure about farmer cooperatives; Discusses Farmer cooperatives's characteristic of property right arrangement in our country.Chapter9:The movement mechanism of Chinese farmer cooperatives.This chapter take the farmer cooperatives's operation pattern as the object of study, mainly discussed the different pattern's connotation, the system characteristic, the economical achievements and the intrinsic evolved relations, analyzed rule of operation pattern's changing from the development dynamic angle, and based on this, proposed he countermeasure suggestion about choosing and cultivating the farmer cooperatives operation patternt..Chapter10:Mechanism of internal government of Chinese farmer cooperatives.Based on the administer theory,phenomena of imperfect internal administering mechanism and inside control of farmer cooperatives in China are investigated,and establishment of the administering mechanism of farmer cooperative in China through regulated system construction,common sense cultivation and governance structure perfection is put forward with empirical analysis and illustrations. Chapterll:Circumstances of Chinese farmer cooperativesThis chapter mainly discusses the government's support policy,stakeholders,legislation and market of production factors in rural areas.Chapter12:Strategic choice of Chinese farmer cooperatives development based on SWOT methodThis paper use the SWOT method to analyses the internal and external factors systematic which affect the development of the farmer cooperatives. On the basis of strategic analysis, this paper summarized the strategic choice of the future development for farmers and provided decision-making to help the farmer cooperative keeping sustainable competitiveness.