Subsistence entrepreneurship and some representations on the chances of economic development in rural Apuseni Mountanins Mihai Pascaru, Călina Ana Buţiu, Ionela Gavrilă-Paven Universitatea « 1 Decembrie 1918 » Alba Iulia Abstract: Despite these unfavorable conditions, entrepreneurship has an interesting development in the Apuseni Mountains too, after the fall of communism in Romania (1989) the first companies being formed since 1990. Key words: entrepreneurship, economic development JEL Code: L 26, O12