The recent financial performances of many Bulgarian SOEs have revealed the shortcomings in the management of its SOEs. The main direction of Bulgarian reforms should be improving transparency, better selection and appraisal of management, sustainable dividend policy, strengthening financial...

The CIS trade regime can be characterised as a mix of, partly overlapping, weak, bilateral, subregional, and multilateral agreements. This is a result of the design of the CIS, which was explicitly constructed to allow its member states to participate in only those parts that they deemed in...

The main achievements and problems of the change of the economic system in Bulgaria after 1989 and their impact on economic growth are analyzed. The main problem of the economic development of Bulgaria is the existence of a model of the functioning of the economy, whose main characteristic is...

This study explores the impact of the European debt crisis and the quality of the institutions on the economic growth in Bulgaria in the pre-accession period and during the period of EU membership. The European debt crisis broke the upward trend not only on the Bulgarian but also on the...

The strategic management and the marketing approach are crucial in the contemporary conditions when significant changes occur in market structures and branch characteristics. All these changes can be met successfully if companies have been strategically prepared for them. Synergy, as a condition...

The aim of the paper is to analysis, through a cross-sector and cross-country approach, the way in which firms in less-advanced transforming economies are restructured. Compared with more advanced economies, where different kind of privatization schemes have been experienced, in Bulgaria,...

This paper examines the current status, the limits, the prospects and the policies of cross-border cooperation in the border zone of Albania, Bulgaria, FYROM and Greece, on the basis of a survey with a sample of 291 manufacturing firms located near the borders in all four countries. The analysis...

Here some estimates obtained from a survey of the possibilities for regional and cross-border cooperation within four Balkan countries are presented. Mainly small and medium enterprises (SME) from Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania (53 to 63 questionnaires) and Greece (121 questionnaires) were...

This paper examines the current status, the limits, the prospects and the policies of cross-border cooperation in the border zone of Albania, Bulgaria, FYROM and Greece, on the basis of a survey with a sample of 291 manufacturing firms located near the borders in all four countries. The analysis...

The paper presents the results of a large study of the current state of the corporate governance in Bulgaria, made in the light of the established principles and standards of corporate governance in the country and good practices in other economies. For this purpose two empirical studies are...