An aproximation to the structure and diversification models of entrepreneur activity in rural districs: analysis and trens in two Spanish regions

Abstract

Rural areas in developed countries have been experiencing, over the last decades, remarkable changes derived both from the deep restructuring of the agrarian sector and the crisis of the fordist productive system dominating in the 1960s. In this perspective, the rural world constitutes currently a new framework for local development, because it could host new locations of enterprises. This article tries to analyse the diversification models of the enterprises and the type of new enterprises that originated in rural areas in order to determine if businesses in new locations follow a pattern of concentration in industrial activities and services traditional in the zone or, if alternatively, they opt rather for non-traditional activities of an exogenous origin. The study focuses, within a comparative approach with the phenomenon at the national-national, in the Spanish regions of Andalucía and Castilla-La Mancha, which have both an agricultural productive component over the national average and an income by person lower that of the country average.

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