Corporate Social Responsibility and Farmer Participation: A Case Study in High-tech Agricultural Cooperatives in Vietnam's Northern Key Economic Region

Abstract

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays an increasingly important role for businesses and receives the attention of many people. The main aim of this study is to explore the components of corporate social responsibility and the part of satisfaction and trust in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and farmer cohesion. Based on applying the partial least squares (PLS-SEM) estimation model to test the hypothesis through data collected from the questionnaire survey in the Northern critical economic region, the research results obtained 395 valid questionnaires, which were used to test the ideas. Research shows that corporate social responsibility consists of three main components: commitment, customers, and the environment from a farmers' perspective. Besides, satisfaction and trust are intermediaries between social responsibility and farmers' cohesion in high-tech agricultural cooperatives.