This is the accepted manuscript version of a chapter in a book on corporate networks (https://www.routledge.com/The-Power-of-Corporate-Networks-A-Comparative-and-Historical-Perspective/David-Westerhuis/p/book/9781138340725 ). Citation: Ivanov, Martin, and Georgy Ganev, "Bulgarian business elite,...

The food industry is one of the most important sectors in the Latvian economy. However, due to its close links to agriculture, the structural crisis in the processing sector is the main obstacle to increasing output, productivity and profitability in the entire agricultural sector. Based on the...

From 1990 to 1994 the economic and political process of disintegration within the Russian Federation halved the domestic trade of grain between the various regions and caused significant reductions in the production. From European economic history and the experience of several developing...