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Impacts of agri-food e-commerce on traditional wholesale industry:Evidence from China

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Rapidly expanding studies investigate the effects of e-commerce on company operations in the retail market.However,the interaction between agri-food e-commerce(AEC)and the traditional agri-food wholesale industry(AWI)has not received enough attention in the existing literature.Based on the provincial panel data from 2013 to 2020 in China,this paper examines the effect of AEC on AWI,comprising three dimensions:digitalization(DIGITAL),agri-food e-commerce infrastructure and supporting services(AECI),and agri-food e-commerce economy(AECE).First,AWI and AEC are measured using an entropy-based combination of indicators.The results indicate that for China as a whole,AWI has remained practically unchanged,whereas AEC exhibits a significant rising trend.Second,the findings of the fixed-effect regression reveal that DIGITAL and AECE tend to raise AWI,whereas AECI negatively affects AWI.Third,threshold regression results indicate that AECI tends to diminish AWI with three-stage inhibitory intensity,which manifests as a first increase and then a drop in the inhibition degree.These results suggest that with the introduction of e-commerce for agricultural product circulation,digital development will have catfish effects that tend to stimulate the vitality of the conventional wholesale industry and promote technical progress.Furthermore,the traditional wholesale industry benefits financially from e-commerce even while it diverts part of the traditional wholesale circulation for agricultural products.

agri-food e-commercetraditional wholesale industrypanel threshold modeldual-channel circulation

Ruyi Yang、Jifang Liu、Shanshan Cao、Wei Sun、Fantao Kong

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Institute of Agricultural Information,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Beijing 100081,China

Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Changchun 130112,China

Leading Talent Support Program for Agricultural Talents of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences国家自然科学基金面上项目

TCS20220201573263

2024

农业科学学报(英文)
中国农业科学院农业信息研究所

农业科学学报(英文)

CSTPCD
影响因子:0.576
ISSN:2095-3119
年,卷(期):2024.23(4)
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