Privatisation forms an essential part of the progress of Bulgaria towards a free economy. This paper reviews the objectives of privatisation, as exemplified by the UK model, and the conditions necessary for their achievement. It considers the privatisation processes in Bulgaria and their...

Establishing of new small businesses is an intensive process in the whole of Eastern Europe. As they are new, most of them are in the introductory phases of their existence (survival, consolidation and control). Contemporary industrial and market structure in the countries of Eastern Europe...

This paper explores managerial characteristics of young Bulgarian and U.S. managers by identifying differences between the two samples in terms of risk taking, reliance on others, leadership style, use of intelligence and cooperation. A number of reasons accounting for significant differences...

This paper argues that it is crucial to take account of both home and host country contexts in order adequately to understand their implications for Chinese enterprises investing into foreign countries. This calls for an analysis that is sensitive to both home and host country contexts, and that...

By adopting a firm-focused perspective to value creation in order to unveil the firm-specific meanings and interpretations of value creation, the paper explores how companies with a different position in a global value chain perceive the internal and external value they create. Based on...