| Previous studies about farmer specialized cooperatives have demonstrated that membership heterogeneity can impact the cooperatives as well as the members. From the perspective of members, this study investigated how membership heterogeneity affected members contract performance conduct. The logistic regression and the linear regression were employed to arrive at parameter estimates. The results showed that higher educational level would gradually weaken fulfillment willingnessout of a contract. Similarly, richer experience or more social capital may lead to a lower performance rate. On the contrary, higher productive profit of the agricultural products could bring to a lower possibility of default. Moreover, most of services offered by the cooperative could contribute to a better contract performance conduct, but the contribution from the distribution of profits and dividend was relatively small. Finally, members contract performance conduct was closely related to their position in the cooperative. |
