This article provides a critical review of the Socialist Management System with a profile of management practices in the centrally planned economies in Eastern Europe. It draws on the work by Kornai and Chavance, exploring the economic reforms in Eastern Europe pre-1989 and the typical...

The aim of this paper is to look at the results from the mass privatisation in Bulgaria as one of the basic pillars of structural reform. A database from the first wave of the mass privatisation was used for the secondary analysis of the investment strategies of the Bulgarian privatisation...

The theoretical conceptualisation of management has produced a vast number of categories that have been used to underpin a variety of interpretative frameworks. This paper is a continuation of the efforts to create management models as simplified representations of the reality and as...

This paper introduces a new conceptual model for comparative research of management practices and social transformations in the context of the transition societies in Eastern Europe. The objectives of the research were: to develop an overview of the management system in Bulgaria before 1989 and...

This paper looks at the history of management science and practice in Bulgaria during the period of socialist central planning. The paper reviews the role of different institutions and their contribution to strategic decision making, and the management of supply and demand at macro level. The...