Improving Farm Cooperatives’ Performance and Sustainability: A Study of Agricultural Managers’ Competencies Based on the Grounded Theory and the fsQCA Methods

As an effective talent selection and performance management method in enterprises, can the competency model also play essential role farm cooperatives? Limited research currently focuses on improving cooperatives’ through agricultural managers’ competency. Our study takes initiative to create “agricultural manager model,” which includes five dimensions: knowledge technology, personal capabilities, career orientation, personality traits, intrinsic drive. On this basis, multiple competencies are analyzed by fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA). We found that managers improve of cooperatives. There four paths generate high performance, summarize three types managers: technical career, managerial integrated entrepreneurial.