• Stanislava Stoyanova
    KEY ASPECTS OF BUILDING MANAGEŽMENT TEAMS FOR PROJECT ACTIVITIES
    JEL: J24, L2, M5
    Summary: The policy of constant innovations, organizational changes, globalization, and the mass introduction of communication and information technologies render project teams an indispensable practice for a lot of contempoŽrary companies. Teamwork is an essential feature of project activity, while project management encourages the establishment of teams. This is due to the fact that the benefits from applying modern methods and approaches to project management ultimately depends on the qualities and skills of both project team leaders and members. The up-to-date nature of the issues researched in this article stems from the growing significance of project activity in the business world and the awareness that organisations need to increasingly employ project teams so as to adapt to dynamic organizational changes. The objective of this article is to study the key aspects of building and managing project activity teams. In order to accomplish this objective, the following major tasks have been set: (1) to present the main groups of proc-esses involved in project management and to examine teamwork activity; (2) to identify the nature and features of project teams which distinguish them from other types of teams; (3) to study the individual stages through which project teams go in the process of their formation and to analyse the processes related to organising, managing and leading project team members; (4) to pre-sent and analyse project team management models according to the nature of the organizational structure of management.
  • Iskra Panteleeva, Anatoliy Asenov
    THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION CONTEXT IN AN INTEGRATED MODEL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIES AND ENTERPRISES
    Summary: This article presents some major formulations related to innovations and the role of the entrepreneurship component for the development of economies and enterprises. The emphasis is placed on the possibilities for their integration and the identification of strategic axes for business growth. On the basis of a common framework of key drivers for the development of innovations, entrepreneurship and economic growth, we have developed a general model for the integration of innovations and entrepreŽneurship in macro- and micro- aspect.