 The Impact of Technology Perception and Government Support on E-Commerce Sales Behavior of Farmer Cooperatives: Evidence From Liaoning Province, ChinaYanan Huang, Xu Li and Guangsheng Zhang SAGE Open, 2021, vol. 11, issue 2, 21582440211015672 Abstract: The sales-related difficulties faced by cooperatives can be solved by expanding their sales channels through e-commerce. However, extant studies have only examined cooperatives’ e-commerce sales behavior from either a technology perception or government support perspective. To fill this gap, based on survey data of 215 farmer cooperatives in Liaoning province, China, this study employs a probit model to analyze the impact of both technology perception and government support on these cooperatives’ e-commerce sales behavior, as well as their marginal and accelerating effects. Both factors were shown to have a significant positive impact. Technology perception has a greater impact on e-commerce sales behavior than government support, while perceived effectiveness has the most significant impact. This study also found that government support has an accelerating effect on the relationship between technology perception and farmer cooperatives’ e-commerce sales behavior. Therefore, governments should improve cooperative members’ technology perception to aid them in expanding sales. Keywords: e-commerce sales behavior; farmer cooperatives; accelerating effects; probit models; technology perception (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:sagope:v:11:y:2021:i:2:p:21582440211015672 DOI: 10.1177/21582440211015672 Access Statistics for this article More articles in SAGE Open |
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