Daniel Yiwady Ordoñez-Abril, Nicolas Aragón-Sánchez, José Julián Ríos-Chávez y Robert Rodríguez-Porto
ISSN 2477-9024. Innova Research Journal (Septiembre-Diciembre, 2023). Vol. N8, No. 3, pp. 51-70
and comprehend those factors of human behavior that affect productive rural development. A
systematic review of the literature on planned behavior in rural and agricultural project
development between 2008 and 2022 was carried out. The work was carried out by consulting
scientific and academic databases such as ScienceDirect, ISI - Web of Science, Springer, Scielo,
Emerald, and Scopus, completing the process with content analysis and systematization of articles
in NVivo software. Three significant clusters of studies focused on development behavior, rural
behavior, and productive development were identified. It was concluded that behavioral studies
and their different analysis methods in the rural and agricultural fields aim to improve standard
practices through participatory methodological proposals, which reflect on social behavior and the
adoption and implementation of practical agricultural development models.
Keywords: economic performance; rural development; development projects.
Resumen
Los diferentes estudios sobre el comportamiento y la toma de decisiones en proyectos rurales,
agroindustriales, territoriales y de desarrollo han tomado importancia en los últimos años,
principalmente, por la necesidad de entender y comprender aquellos factores de la conducta
humana que inciden en el desarrollo productivo rural. Se realizó un repaso sistemático de la
literatura sobre el comportamiento planeado en el marco del desarrollo de proyectos rurales y
agrícolas entre los años 2008 y 2022. El trabajo se realizó a través de la consulta de bases de datos
científicas y académicas como ScienceDirect, ISI – Web of Science, Springer, Scielo, Emerald y
Scopus, completando el proceso con análisis de contenido y sistematización de artículos en el
software NVivo. Identificando tres grandes conglomerados de estudios enfocados en el
comportamiento de desarrollo, comportamiento rural y desarrollo productivo. Concluyéndose que
los estudios comportamentales y sus diferentes métodos de análisis, en el ámbito rural y agrícola
pretenden mejorar las prácticas comunes por medio de propuestas metodológicas participativas,
que lleven a reflexionar sobre el comportamiento social y la adopción e implementación de
modelos de desarrollo agrícolas prácticos.
Palabras claves: comportamiento económico; desarrollo rural; proyectos de desarrollo.
Introduction
The different studies on behavior and decision-making in rural, agro-industrial, territorial,
and development projects have become very important in recent years, mainly because of the need
to account for and understand those factors of human behavior that affect productive rural
development. In this scenario, researchers have focused on the optimal selection of alternatives,
understood as the product of a complex set of stimuli and emotions directed to a given action
(Ordoñez et al., 2021), which seeks the success of projects and rural progress (Palacios & Estrada,
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020). In other words, the aim is to understand how farmers can adapt effectively to ensure their
growth and well-being over time.
Thus, the study incorporated ethical approaches, which imply an approach based on the
theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991), and to give another look at those factors of the
productive units in rural areas, which in favor of their development affect the intention to act
(Nettle et al., 2021; Nguyen et al., 2021; Pérez & Egea, 2019; Ranjbar et al., 2021; Rezaei et al.,
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020; Rezaei et al., 2018; Sarkar et al., 2022; Was