ABSTRACT
Spatial analysis of Hungarian industrial organisation is still in an initial stage. A countrywide examination is now under way to reveal which towns can be considered industry-directing centres and what kind of attraction these centres have. Most of the acquiring enterprises were controlled by the ministerial sector and while amalgamations mostly occurred within the same ownership type, quite an important change was brought about by the takeover of some council-owned industries by enterprises in the ministerial sector. Enterprise organisation and its spatial dimensions in Hungary were shaped by economic and political measures which contradicted each other until the late 1960s. Two decisive sources of industrial investments should be analysed in Hungary: the central State budget; and the resources of state and cooperative industrial enterprise. Until the mid-1970s spatial decentralisation took place: the proportion of employment and output in Budapest decreased while the industrial significance of the provinces, towns and villages increased.
