Stakeholder roles for fostering ambidexterity in Sub-Saharan African agricultural netchains for the emergence of multi-stakeholder cooperatives

S. A. P. Perdomo, A. Farrow, J. Trienekens, S. Omta
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The Sub-Saharan African smallholder agricultural sector faces multiple and usually complex challenges, which can potentially be overcome by collective action. Smallholder farmers and other value chain stakeholders can tackle temporal, structural and contextual challenges by joining multi-level innovation networks to benefit collectively from shared information, knowledge, improved capacities and economies of scale in a process of innovation. Ambidexterity is a capability of innovation networks to balance exploration and exploitation dynamics in an innovation process, and is applicable at multiple levels: individuals, leaders, champions, teams and clusters. In the paradigm of open innovation, these levels become intertwined in hybrid social structures of innovation netchains. The objective of this paper is to describe the roles and identify the stakeholders that play those roles in an innovation process. We present case studies on farmer groups who participate in collective action and we compare multi-stak...
利益相关者的作用,促进撒哈拉以南非洲农业网络的双重灵活性,促进多利益相关者合作社的出现
撒哈拉以南非洲小农农业部门面临多重且通常复杂的挑战,这些挑战可以通过集体行动加以克服。小农和其他价值链利益相关者可以通过加入多层次创新网络来应对时间、结构和背景方面的挑战,共同受益于创新过程中的信息、知识共享、能力提高和规模经济。双元性是指创新网络在创新过程中平衡探索和开发动态的能力,适用于多个层面:个人、领导者、冠军、团队和集群。在开放式创新范式中,这些层次在创新网络链的混合社会结构中相互交织。本文的目的是描述角色,并确定在创新过程中扮演这些角色的利益相关者。我们介绍了参与集体行动的农民团体的案例研究,我们比较了多方利益……
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