Entrepreneurship in agriculture is a phenomenon that is growing in importance with the changing framework conditions for agricultural production and has led to heterogeneity in farm business development paths. To understand this phenomenon better, a classification scheme for strategic entrepreneurial choices in agriculture is developed for family farmers. The choices that are scrutinized are reduction, continuation, expansion, diversification, and the dual strategy of expansion and diversification. Each farmer is uniquely assigned to one of these choice classes according to their implemented entrepreneurial activities. Determinants influencing these choices are investigated with a multinomial logit model. The data are derived from a quantitative survey among German farmers (N = 745). Strong effects are observable within the area of personal factors; creativity and risk affinity benefit entrepreneurial strategies connected with diversification. Farmers with a third-level education qualification are less likely to follow expansion strategies, and those with off-farm employment and risk-averse farmers mainly choose a reduction strategy. Family involvement, especially the farmer's spouse, proves to have stabilizing and even enhancing effects on certain strategies. Implications for policymakers and actors within the agricultural sector can thus be derived.

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分析农业战略性创业选择——来自德国的经验证据

农业创业是一种随着农业生产框架条件的变化而变得越来越重要的现象，并导致了农业企业发展路径的异质性。为了更好地理解这一现象，为家庭农民制定了农业战略创业选择的分类方案。审查的选择是缩减、延续、扩张、多元化，以及扩张和多元化的双重战略。每个农民根据他们实施的创业活动被唯一分配到这些选择类别之一。使用多项 logit 模型研究影响这些选择的决定因素。数据来源于对德国农民的定量调查（N = 745）。在个人因素方面可以观察到强烈的影响；创造力和风险亲和力有利于与多元化相关的创业战略。具有三级教育资格的农民不太可能遵循扩张策略，而那些有非农就业和风险规避的农民则主要选择减量策略。家庭参与，尤其是农民的配偶，被证明对某些策略具有稳定甚至增强的影响。因此可以推导出对农业部门决策者和行为者的影响。