How were contracts among firms enforced in the early phase of a transition economy when firms lacked experience with commercial contracts or legal procedures? What were their views of their new business environment? We interviewed a sample of Bulgarian firms, including private, state-owned and...

The educational institutions existing under communism were designed to serve a society very different from the democratic market society of Bulgaria today. Reform was clearly needed in content, organization, approach, didactics and methodology. We argue here that while Bulgaria has advantages in...