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A Research On Internal Social Network’s Change Through Time And The Development Of Organization About X Farmer’s Specialized Cooperative In Gansu Province

Posted on:2014-01-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2247330398469149Subject:Sociology
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Farmer’s specialized cooperative, a vital organization in the process of the agriculture industry, is still an inevitable topic in modern agriculture. Under the substantial support of the government, diversified cooperatives have sprung up and been established, whereas’the separation between the name and the reality’ phenomenon has been pushed to the front screen resulted from either unbalanced powers and interests among different stakeholders or the conflicts between standardizing system and practical system. Native scholars create many vivid concepts to study the relations as well as the social structure, so the use of social network research organization of its potential is huge. Many a scholars have drawn the conclusion that internal mechanism by means of quantitative research and comparative analysis is the cut-in point for tackling the organizational performance and the organizational governance issues.This study focuses on analyzing the shift of social network inside the cooperative, using the whole network analysis method, this study makes centrality analysis and analysis of small groups within the cooperatives close relationships, friend relationships, advisory network, the borrower network and the network of trust, this study also makes a comparison of the characteristics between the beginning and the current network of X cooperative. According to the results of the centrality analysis, the veteran members are still at the core place at the current stage, they show stronger control capability than the after members. According to the small group analysis, veteran members are still in relatively close ties of condensing subgroup at this stage, other circles are attached to the nodes of them,based on the good friend relationship, small group showed a trend of condensing subgroup, based on consulting relationship, an centralized trend is showed in small groups,from the angle of dynamic evolution, the network structure can be roughly summed up as central control type. Based on this, we discuss the factors that relevant to the development of X cooperative, including the members of the cooperative motivation, members of the trust relationships and cooperative governance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Farmer’s specialized cooperative, social network, whole networkanalysis, development
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