Digital Transformation of Agriculture in Romania: A Change Management Perspective

Paul Stefan Markovits ()
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Paul Stefan Markovits: National University of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest, Romania Faculty of Management

Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, 2023, vol. XXIII, issue 2, 282-291

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to further strengthen the belief within the academic, professional and policy making communities about the need to speed up the adoption of Agriculture 4.0 technologies in the Romanian farms as the grassroot constituents of the national agriculture in order to secure their future competitiveness in the context of new European agricultural policies and regulations. A review of the most influential papers and the bibliometric mapping of articles on change management as well as ways to accelerate change processes through change agents is discussed. Agrinnovator is the think tank of young digital agriculture practitioners in the Romanian farms. Their public policy proposal to create The Farm Technology Officers Program in order to accelerate digitalization through relevant change agents is also discussed. Their interviews highlighted the need for government support in creating scale and impetus for the digitalization of agriculture. It is deemed to be a structural countrywide change that will happen faster if the adequate change agents are used.

Keywords: digital agriculture; change management; knowledge management; public policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M50 O33 O35 Q10 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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