An embeddedness perspective on family farm development in the Carpathian Mountains

Schwabe, Julian; Oppenkowski, Moritz von; Roesler, Tim; Hassler, Markus

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2022.2038295

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“…The efficiency assessments of family farm sustainability can use an indicator system that integrates economic, social and ecological values (Brasileiro-Assing et al, 2022;Damke et al, 2022;Savian et al, 2023). Economic value covered financial growth, resource utilization and organizational stability of family farms, expressed as the final income from all production and business activities, efficiency of utilizing production elements and resisting risks (Savickienė and Miceikienė, 2018;Micu et al, 2022). Social value was expressed as the contribution of family farms in promoting the local economy, reducing social inequality and increasing the protection of local customs and crafts, including empowerment, equitable inclusion and spiritual culture (Paskewitz, 2021).…”

Section: Background 21 Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The network organization formed by family farms joining cooperatives can encourage family farms to further leverage their scale advantages, reduce transaction costs, and thus share the value-added benefits of the agricultural industry chain (Ochago et al, 2023). By embedding in the rural entrepreneurial ecosystem, family farms can form a long-term stable resource exchange mechanism and shared values and norms with other actors to create multiple values jointly (Methorst et al, 2017;Björklund and Johansson, 2020), thus realizing intergenerational inheritance (Schwabe et al, 2022). Especially in China's relational society, resource-poor family farms can only obtain entrepreneurial resources by embedding themselves in various social networks (Si et al, 2019).…”

Section: Network Embeddednessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The development of family farms requires a certain resource base (Björklund and Johansson, 2020). From the resource-based theory, family farms sustainability is actually a process of identifying, integrating and allocating internal and external resources (Makadok, 2001;Schwabe et al, 2022). If family farms are able to effectively manage and bundle valuable, rare, inimitable and irreplaceable resources, these resources will create sustainable competitive advantages for family farms (Suess-Reyes and Fuetsch, 2016).…”

Section: Resource Base For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Strong relationships can help family farms to obtain material and emotional support (Adro and Franco, 2020), but lead to resource homogenization (Kurland and McCaffrey, 2020). Therefore, they need to obtain new resource through weak relationships (Schwabe et al, 2022). Strong relationships can help family farms enter the peripheral position of rural social networks too (Mincyte, 2023).…”

Section: Multiple Network Embeddedness For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result of improved business models, family farms gradually occupy the core rural social network to obtain more entrepreneurial opportunities (Wilson and Tonner, 2020;Ochago et al, 2023). With the diversification of network relationships, family farms learn about local production characteristics, industry norms and traditional customs, thus inheriting and innovating local culture (Schwabe et al, 2022).…”

Section: Multiple Network Embeddedness For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Network embeddedness, entrepreneurial bricolage, and family farm sustainability

Duan,

Wang,

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Family farm sustainability is an essential guarantee for increasing the resilience of food systems. Based on the network embeddedness theory and entrepreneurial bricolage theory, an exploratory longitudinal case study was adopted. The value-creating behaviors of family farms in different entrepreneurial periods were described and a process model of family farms sustainability with network embeddedness and entrepreneurial bricolage was constructed. The study revealed that family farms faced resource constraints such as shortage of element resources, insufficient market resources and lack of knowledge resources during the induction, start-up, and growth periods, respectively. In order to overcome resource constraints in different entrepreneurial periods, family farms employed multiple network embeddedness ways including relational embeddedness, structural embeddedness and cognitive embeddedness to seek help from actors in the rural social network. Family farms embedded in multiple networks used the entrepreneurial bricolage strategy of “element bricolage – market bricolage – institutional bricolage” to continuously acquire production elements, improve brand awareness, optimize processing techniques and promote the convergence of three industries. Family farms benefited from a win-win result with actors through network embeddedness and entrepreneurial bricolage, and created economic, social and ecological values eventually. The study offers fresh insights into the dynamics of rural entrepreneurship.

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Section: Background 21 Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Network Embeddednessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resource Base For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Multiple Network Embeddedness For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Multiple Network Embeddedness For Family Farm Sustainabilitymentioning

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Wang,

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Path dependencies in Turkish olive production: production arrangements of smallholders, middlemen and cooperatives

Schwabe,

Hennig

2023

Asian Geographer

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What determines small farms’ succession patterns in Eastern European emerging markets? Exploring the role of embeddedness in social networks

Czyżewski,

Kryszak,

Bajrami

et al. 2024

IJOEM

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PurposeThe interactive relationships of farmers with institutions and other individuals create the context of succession intention – “farm embeddedness”. This context shapes in long-term self-efficacy of farmers. The main goal of this paper is to study the contextual drivers of the choice of succession paths in small-scale farms which dominate in Eastern European countries. The studied pathways, ordered by farmers’ self-efficacy are “no succession”, “conditional succession”, “unconditional internalised succession” and “unconditional externalised succession”.Design/methodology/approachWe used a sample of 1,683 small farms from three Eastern European emerging markets: Romania, Moldova and Serbia. The likelihood of choosing a given succession path is analysed using a multinomial logit model; contextual drivers of succession are selected based on the theory of embeddedness.FindingsWe found that more-educated and more-efficient small-scale farmers are less likely to pass on their farms because of a kind of “glass ceiling”, so they do not want such a difficult future for their children. The most important determinant of unconditional/internalised succession is the successor formation through “training on the farm”. Some formal institutions operating in the agricultural sector hinder self-efficacy and thus unconditional succession.Originality/valueMost of the papers lack a theoretical background while demonstrating that economic drivers are crucial to succession. The embeddedness theory argues that economic activities are always anchored in a social structure. We contribute to this theory by showing that the embeddedness in social networks is more important than economic factors when smallholders transfer their farms to successors in post-socialist countries. In addition, we attempt to identify which particular types of social networks are most relevant to the multi-stage process of farm transfer, and we outline several transfer scenarios using the concept of self-efficacy.

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An embeddedness perspective on family farm development in the Carpathian Mountains

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Network embeddedness, entrepreneurial bricolage, and family farm sustainability

Network embeddedness, entrepreneurial bricolage, and family farm sustainability

Path dependencies in Turkish olive production: production arrangements of smallholders, middlemen and cooperatives

What determines small farms’ succession patterns in Eastern European emerging markets? Exploring the role of embeddedness in social networks

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