Adoption of innovation in agriculture: a critical review of economic and psychological models

J.A. Rossi Borges; A.G.J.M. Oude Lansink; Grigorios  Emvalomatis

doi:10.1504/IJISD.2019.10017237

Adoption of innovation in agriculture: a critical review of economic and psychological models

J.A. Rossi Borges^*, A.G.J.M. Oude Lansink, Grigorios Emvalomatis

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Abstract

Two main models have been used to analyse farmers’ decisions to
adopt an innovation; the first is based on the concept of utility maximisation
(UM) and the second is based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). This
study uses a vote-count method to identify the effect of different variables on
farmers’ adoption decisions in 36 studies using either UM or the TPB. Results
from the UM studies show that the explanatory variables mostly have an
insignificant effect on the adoption decision. When the effects are significant,
the sign of the effect is inconsistent across studies. Results from the TPB
studies show that correlations between the psychological constructs used in this
type of model are significant in most cases. However, most variables are only
used in one or two studies and it is therefore not

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	36-56
Journal	International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJISD.2019.10017237
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

Adoption
Agriculture
Decision
Farmer
Innovation
Theory of planned behaviour
Theory of reasoned action
TPB
TRA
Utility

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