Research On The Impact Of Rural Social Capital On Rural Cooperative Economic Organization

After the implementation of the household contract responsibility system,the problems of supervision and encouragement during the period of the people's commune movement were better resolved.However,in the face of natural risks and an increasingly complex commodity economy,decentralized small farmers began to explore new cooperative production methods in practice.In the 1980 s,rural cooperative economic organizations appeared one after another in rural areas of China,and then the cooperative economic organizations entered a period of rapid development.However,since the beginning of the 21 st century,rural cooperative economic organizations have generally exhibited problems such as low participation of farmers,insufficient stability of organizations,and small scale.According to the formal institutional arrangements provided by property rights theory and contract theory,it can promote the sound development of cooperative economic organizations.However,in the face of "institutional failure" or "market failure",can the social capital as an informal system make up for the deficiencies of the formal system and have a positive impact on farmers' cooperative economic organizations? This article is based on the perspective of collective action theory to study this issue.This article analyzes the influence mechanism of rural social capital on rural cooperative economic organizations.The theoretical basis used is the new collective action theory proposed by Elinor Ostrom.The author first selects the discount rate,clearly defined boundaries,mutual supervision,and graded sanctions as the intermediate variables in the analysis.Secondly,after embedding rural social capital,the intermediate variables will meet certain characteristics,and thus can promote collective action and maintain the stability of the cooperative organization.The mechanism analysis part of this paper proves that rural social capital can improve farmers' willingness to cooperate,overcome the dilemma of collective action,and improve the stability of cooperative organizations.In the modern rural society of underdeveloped areas,due to frequent personnel movement,increasing income gap between villagers,and lack of clan norms,rural society is no longer closed and homogeneous.In the cultivation,rural social capital is lacking.The development of rural cooperative economic organizations faces problems such as weak farmers' willingness to participate,unstable organizational development,and high default rates among farmers.The author analyzes the negative impact of insufficient social capital stock in underdeveloped areas on rural cooperative economic organizations.At the end of this chapter,village J of Wuwei County,Anhui Province is taken as an analysis object,which shows that the lack of social capital in less developed areas hinders farmers from forming collective actions,which in turn affects the establishment of endogenous cooperative economic organizations.In exogenous cooperative economic organizations,when the formal system is inadequate or fails,social capital will play a complementary role and have a positive impact on the organization.The author analyzes the characteristics of social capital dominated by rural elites,and analyzes its impact on the stability of the exogenous organizational model of "leading enterprises + farmers".The chapter ends with a case study of Bailing Village,Huizhou City,Guangdong Province,to illustrate that rural social capital led by rural elites can have a positive impact on rural cooperative economic organizations and is a supplement to formal contracts.This article is divided into seven chapters.The introductory part is the research background,purpose and significance of this article,research methods and framework,and possible innovations;Chapter II,the relevant literature in the existing literature on the development of social capital,rural social capital,rural elites,rural cooperative economic organizations Summarize and summarize;Chapter 3 combs the development status of China's rural cooperative economic organizations,and analyzes the problems faced by endogenous cooperative economic organizations and exogenous cooperative economic organizations in their development.Chapter 4 is the theoretical basis of full text analysis.This chapter combines Elinor Ostrom's new collective action theory and mathematical model to analyze the impact mechanism of rural social capital on the development of rural cooperative economic organizations;Chapter 5 analyzes the lack of rural social capital in less developed areas,which makes it difficult for farmers to overcome the collective action dilemma It is difficult to achieve,and it is difficult to establish an endogenous cooperative economic organization.Chapter 6 analyzes that in exogenous cooperative economic organizations,social capital,as a supplement to formal contracts or systems,can reduce the cost of supervision of members of organizations and improve the level of cooperation of organizations.Chapter 7 is the conclusion and policy recommendations of this article.Rural social capital can promote the emergence of endogenous cooperative economic organizations by promoting farmers to overcome the difficulties of collective action and reduce the cost of collective action supervision.It can also improve the stability and operational efficiency of exogenous cooperative economic organizations.This article puts forward the relevant policy recommendations in combination with the development status of rural cooperative economic organizations in China and the status of rural social capital.Finally,according to the lack of research in this article,the research prospect is put forward.