ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1554308
This article is part of the Research TopicBuilding Resilience Through Sustainability: Innovative Strategies In Agricultural SystemsView all 14 articles
Seeking competitive advantage of farmers' cooperatives through organizational resilience: Examining the role of chairpersons' self-efficacy and environmental dynamism
Provisionally accepted
- 1Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China
- 2South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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In the context of dynamic environments, the construction of organizational resilience within farmers' cooperatives, which is essential for their sustainable competitive edge, is not well-defined. Our research, grounded in social cognitive theory, is based on a survey of 286 Chinese farmers' cooperatives in Guangdong Province. We employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the data. The findings indicate that chairpersons' self-efficacy positively influences both planned resilience and adaptive resilience. Moreover, planned resilience and adaptive resilience both significantly enhance cooperative competitive advantage, serving as mediators between self-efficacy and competitive advantage. Environmental dynamism negatively moderates the relationships between planned resilience and competitive advantage and between adaptive resilience and competitive advantage. These results imply that strengthening chairpersons' psychological capital is critical for bolstering cooperative resilience; in relatively stable environments, resilience more effectively translates into competitive advantage, whereas in highly dynamic settings, cooperatives must adopt additional adaptive strategies to maintain their competitive edge.
Keywords: Farmers' cooperatives, Organizational resilience, chairpersons' self-efficacy, competitive advantage, Environmental dynamism
Received: 01 Jan 2025; Accepted: 25 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence:
佳 王, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China
Junyi Wan, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, Guangdong Province, China
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