Research On The Development Of Farmers' Specialized Cooperatives From The Perspective Of Resource Dependence Theory

The success of worldwide farmers' specialized cooperatives shows that the estblishment and development of farmers' specialized cooperatives benefits farmers' organizations, enhances farmers' negotiation ability in the market, resists the market risk, and increases farmers' income ultimately. In 1970's, the establishment of the household contract responsibility system liberated the rural productive forces effectively, promoted the growth and development of rural economy, created good conditions for the socialist market economy reform and development. At the same time, it pushed farmers into market. Farmers established specialized cooperatives with the help of government to resist the market risk. The farmers' specialized cooperatives with rapid development are becoming important organizations in the countryside. In fact, most of farmers' specialized cooperatives are not in a good situation, few cooperatives give farmers actual profits while most of them are not doing well.The government and scholars give attention to the development of farmers' specialized cooperative because of theirs function in increasing farmers' income and promoting rural economy. Most Chinese scholars research from the angle like introducing foreign experiences, studying the necessity, or institution change, they rarely research the exterior environment of farmers' specialized cooperatives. This article is under resource dependence theory, base on real diagnosis analysis from Wendeng City, use case analysis of their cooperatives' exterior resource dependence, and then put forward assumption. Recurring to large-scale questionnaire research, applied SPSS statistic instrument consisted of description statistics, reliability analysis, regression analysis and regression analysis to analyze the relationship between farmers' specialized cooperatives and their exterior resource dependence. The result indicates that farmers' specialized cooperatives correlate with customer resource, government resource and human resource.The author summaries by empirical research and theoretical analysis and find the clearly significance the exterior resource, including customer resource, government resource and human resource to farmers' specialized cooperatives. Of course, pointing out these does not automatically solve the problem and in-depth study is still required. Based on the research, the author offer proposals for promoting the development of farmers' specialized cooperatives, such as cooperatives need to strive for more customer resource, government resource and human resource, reduce exterior resource dependence, promote the development of farmers' specialized cooperatives, increase farmers' income, develop rural economy, solve the problems facing agriculture, rural areas and farmers.