To assist farmers in shifting from subsistence to commercial agriculture, the government of Laos has promoted farmer organizations throughout the country. The farmer production groups have gradually transformed and emerged into strong cooperatives or associations. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting farmers’ participation in FPGs. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources. A total of 140 respondents participated in a field survey in three kumb ban (village groups) in the Xepon District. Descriptive statistics and binary logistics regression models were used to analyze the data. The results show that the education level of household head, farmland size, access to credit, and perceived trust for farmer production group membership are significantly different from those who are non-members of the groups. However, non-members of FPGs face more constrain in accessing the market, as compared to the members of FPGs. The empirical results from the Binary Logit Model indicate that education level of headed household, farmland size, access to credit, perceived trust, and constraint to market are factors that significantly determine farmers’ participation in FPGs. This study contributes to the empirical literature by providing a better understanding of farmer participation in the groups. The government of Laos should consider and promote access to credit, farmer learning, and market integration to improve farmers' participation in FPGs.

본 연구는 개인의 학습조직활동이 지식경영활동과 혁신행동에 미치는 영향에 대하여 분석한 실증연구 이다. 이를 위한 연구 방법으로서 본 논문은 서비스/제조/IT 대기업 종사자를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시 하였고, 이를 토대로 산업별 변수 간의 관계에 대하여 비교·분석하였다. 본 연구에서 사용한 용어에 대한 정의를 살펴보면, 혁신행동은 새로운 공정 혹은 제품 아이디어를 찾고 개발하며, 아이디어를 실행하기 위해 필요한 자금을 확보하고, 적합한 실행 계획과 일정을 수립하고 스케 줄을 개발하는 행동을 의미한다. 급변하는 경영환경 속에서 기업이 지속적인 경쟁우위를 획득하기 위해 서는 다양한 방법으로 조직의 변화와 혁신을 추구하여야 하며, 이러한 혁신행동의 선행요인으로서 지식 경영활동과 학습조직활동이 중요하게 인지되었다. 이상과 같이 실시된 연구 결과를 종합하여 살펴보면, 서비스업과 제조업, IT업은 개인의 학습조직 활동 이 지식경영활동과 혁신행동에 모두 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 지식경영활동도 혁신 행동에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 각 집단 별로 분석해보면, 개인의 학습조직활동이 지식경 영활동에 미치는 영향에서는 제조업이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다. 또한 지식경영활동이 혁신행동에 미치 는 영향에 있어서는 IT업이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났고, 개인의 학습조직활동이 혁신행동에 미치는 영향에 서는 제조업이 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 위와 같은 분석결과를 토대로, 본 연구는 학습조직활 동이 산업별 종사자들에게 미치는 차이점과 변수 간의 관계에 대하여 중점적으로 논의하였고 그 원인을 제시하였다.

It has continuously promoted to scale up the agricultural management body in order to cope with the market-opening pressure such as the UR negotiation, the DDA negotiation, and more conclusions of FTAs and to enhance the competitiveness of our agriculture. This study evaluated the factors associated with production organization participation centered on environmentally-friendly agriculture farmers in order to improve the production efficiency of environmentally-friendly agriculture in the aspect of production. In order to achieve this objective, this study evaluated the factors that contributed to participating in an organization using the bivariate probit model focusing on environmentally-friendly agriculture farmers in Chungnam. This study examined the validity and reliability of the study model through exploratory factor analysis. The results of factor analyses identified four factors: “distribution”, “production”, “organization operation”, and “social capital”. The results of the bivariate probit model showed that distribution significantly affected production activities and distribution, organization operation, agricultural income, and gender significantly influenced sale activities. Environmentally-friendly production organization had not been able to provide the productive support that was needed for local farmers to produce environmentally-friendly agricultural products in a region. Additionally, farming education did not provide the information needed by the farmers. Although producers had a network within a production organization, it was operated mainly for administrators. Therefore, participants felt somewhat lacking. This study identified the level of organization of producer organizations in Chungnam area, where environmentally-friendly agriculture is well activated. This study suggested implications for future production organization participation by evaluating factors affecting participation quantitatively.