This book is a result of the 5th Biennual Conference of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies "Economies in Transition and the Variety of Capitalisms: Features, Changes, Convergence" held in Varna, Bulgaria, 10-12 September 1998. It includes 28 papers from all discussed...

The paper presents the results of study of 300 state, private and privatized firms from Bulgaria, Romania and Albania. There is shown the connection between the ownership structure and firm performance, measured by 8 indexes - sales, employment, productivity, profit/sales ratio, export/sales...