• Kameliya Bozhinova
    OUTSOURCING PRINTING SERVICES IN BULGARIA – PART OF THE GLOBAL OUTSOURCING MARKET
    Summary: The new conditions and the globalization of the business environment in which the management of commercial enterprises operates today require innovative, flexible and adaptive management tools, one of which is outsourcing. It improves the operational efficiency of the enterprises involved in this process and enables the service providers to expand and maintain their market shares. Moreover, it optimizes their resource allocation and improves the profitability of their operations.
  • P. Dimitrova
    A methodology for a complex assessment of personnel competitiveness within a company
    Summary: In this scientific investigation a model is developed and applied for the comprehensive evaluation of the competitive power and competency of spe-cialists in a specific firm (enterprise, institution and so on). The different criteria used in this assessment and example contents of these criteria are noted. The evaluation is performed by utilizing 6 degrees. The indicators used in the study are assigned different values which depend on the importance of the results obtained from a specific specialist working in a specific area. The specialist’s competency is calculated using a complex assessment which simultaneously uses 138 indicators. There are possibilities for applying the methodology developed when evaluating the competitive power of products which are produced by compa-nies with different types of production and when evaluating this at both a re-gional and national level. The methodology can be computerized and can be applied by collecting the information, and the different criteria in these indi-cators constitutes the characteristics of the specialist, product, company, mu-nicipality, region and so on.
  • Tanya Gorcheva
    Realising the Concept of Sustainable Management
    JEL: D21, L26
    Summary: The concept of sustainable business development applied as a management model can multiply positive achievements resulting from business operations. The main objective of this study is to trace the forms of implementation of sustainable management by business operation levels. In order to achieve this, the nature and importance of sustainable management is revealed. The idea of applying sustainable management features an interdisciplinary and multicultural signature that is associated with economic prosperity, a green lifestyle and the social responsibility of all stakeholders in the business, as well as a wide range of community groups. The paper provides a broad-spectrum analysis of the main forms of sustainable management realisation, namely its operation as a standard with a force equal to national law; as good practice, leading to increased competitiveness of entrepreneurs; as an international agreement made possible by the unity accomplished in the realisation of major projects.