Networks and farm performance of entrepreneurial farmers in Indonesia

What is it about?

This paper aims to investigate the effects of farmers’ entrepreneurial degree and network content (i.e., business ties, technology ties, and network heterogeneity) on farm performance. The findings of this study demonstrate that more entrepreneurial farmers with networks that are rich in business ties and diverse contacts have better farm performance.

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Why is it important?

Farm entrepreneurship of smallholder farmers in the developing world has received little attention in the entrepreneurship literature and in rural studies. The literature offers few conceptual models to explain the difference of more entrepreneurial than less entrepreneurial smallholder farmers. In this paper, we expect that the ability to adapt to market changes or even create new markets may depend on the entrepreneurship degree of farmers and their access to networks.

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