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Политически и икономически предизвикателства пред Западните Балкани в процеса на присъединяването им към ЕС

Author(s): Galya Mancheva,Elena Simeonova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The study presents the results of a comprehensive study focusing on the political, economic and social aspects of the Western Balkan countries, with particular emphasis on the overall political risk environment within the EU accession process. For the purposes of the analysis, the well-known PEST analysis is modified to so-called PES (I) analysis. The survey covers a period of 10 years (2007-2017) and the countries of the Republic of Serbia, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Montenegro, the Republic of Northern Macedonia and the Republic of Albania of the Western Balkans.The report is structured into three parts: 1) presentation and argumentation of the main variables of the PES (I) analysis; 2) implementation of the PES (I) analysis for the Western Balkan countries and data interpretation; 3) conclusions.The accession of the Western Balkans to the EU is a political rather than an economic issue. Moreover, the analysis shows that, from all the countries in the region, the Republic of Albania is best represented by making the most progress in economic and political terms and thus generating the lowest levels of political risk. While Serbian and Montenegrin leaders are "lagging behind", they are lagging behind the surveyed indicators and generating higher levels of political risk.

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Фискален контрол върху стоки си висок фискален риск

Author(s): Plamen Iliev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Controlling the movement of goods with high fiscal risk is a set of activities of revenue bodies (National Revenue Agency) in order to prevent tax evasion and tax evasion in connection with the movement of goods with high fiscal risk on the territory of the country (Republic of Bulgaria). With control or fiscal control, on the movement of goods, with a high Fiscal risk does not establish tax liabilities but can be established certain facts and circumstances relevant to tax obligations. The list of goods with high fiscal risk is approved by an order of the Minister of Finance on a motivated proposal of the Executive Director of National Revenue Agency. Fiscal control is subject to the movement of all goods with a high fiscal level risk, irrespective of the place of receipt/unloading of the commodity – the territory of country, territory of another Member State of the European Union or territory to a third party.

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Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-17 January

Author(s): Ioana Caloianu / Language(s): English Issue: 01/20/2020

Headlines from around the region: scandal in Ukraine; a spatbetween Albania and Iran; oil for Belarus; HRW’s annual rights report; and the Tajik-Kyrgyz border.

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Българската мечта - поглед през рекламите

Author(s): Albena Pavlova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Not only is the educational and upbringing function of advertising not talked about, but not even thought about in Bulgaria. This article looks at the current situation in TV ads and addresses issues that can be helped by incorporating relevant images into ads.

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Обществените обсъждания в общините - възприятия, практики, интерпретации

Author(s): Angel Stefanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

This paper reveals the results of an empirical research of the provided public discussions in Bulgarian municipalities. The research consist of two questionnaires – one with 12 closed questions concerning subjective perceptions and specific data, and another with 6 questions, asked in the frame of Access to Public Information Act. Despite the conclusion, that the local authorities don’t show willingness to participate in such kind of studies, the answers indicate interesting tendencies, understandings and practices.

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Дизайн на глобализацията

Author(s): Vania Hadjieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Globalization is a complex social phenomenon, provoked in the beginning by human curiosity to discover and try new and different things. As evolutionary processes progress, so does globalization, which initially reduced to getting to know people from the neighboring village, and today people from different continents communicate with each other without any difficulty. It is a complex social phenomenon that is presented within the study through the nature of the phenomenon, the prerequisites that provoke it, the symptoms and types of classifications of globalization.

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Взаимодействието между човека и "интелигентните" машини - новите правила при управлението на човешките ресурси

Author(s): Ekatherina Tzvetanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Artificial intelligence development and its impact on humans' life are analysed very often nowadays. In this study is presented a vision of the corporate world after a decade. It is put on focus the expected changes in human resources management thanks to artificial intelligence development. The development and implementation of artificial intelligence-based systems create opportunities but also challenges that companies should meet shortly.

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Анализ на "комуникативното действие" на Хабермас по отношение на формирането на културни политики

Author(s): Elena Blagoeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Habermas's works on democracy, communicative action, ethics and rational debate in the public sphere are widely used as a theoretical basis for the essence of cultural policies. His theory of communicative action distinguishes between the imperative needs of the system and the rationality of the human lifeworld. The purpose of this article is to analyze Habermas's concept of „communicative action" as an alternative paradigm for cultural policy-making, not through instrumental action, but through democratic consensus, in which the participants themselves define the goals of future development. The need for maturity, adequacy and motivation of the civil society in the cultural sphere is also substantiated.

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Опаковките на шоколадовите изделия - мотив за потребителски избор и инструмент за конкурентноспособност на организациите

Author(s): Kiril Radev,Gabrina Svetoslavova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The report presents the results of a scientifically research study with the main purpose:Investigation of the impact of chocolate products packaging offered on the Bulgarian market on the choiceof product, respectively the opportunities for competitiveness of the organizations. In a logical sequence are presented the results of: the analysis of the regulatory framework regulating the type and content characteristics of the packages and the study of the influence of chocolates packaging offered on the Bulgarian market on the product selection and the competitiveness opportunities of the organizations. As a result of achieving the main goal, conclusions and recommendations have been made to improve the competitiveness of organizations through the processes of product selection, as a function of their packaging

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The Role of Universities in the Knowledge Triangle Model on the Example of EIT Activities

Author(s): Magdalena Klimczuk-Kochańska / Language(s): English Issue: 10.3/2018

Background. For universities, it is essential to develop in the direction of market expectations. It is necessary to enter into cooperation with entrepreneurs which allows technology transfer to create innovations. The knowledge triangle model is a concept that involves creating relationships between universities, research institutions and enterprises. This idea is very important for European policy and is implemented by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). However, it is worth checking whether it is actually being implemented. Research Aims. To check if the approach of the knowledge triangle is used in practice by entities set up under the EIT. Another research aim is an exploration of the current directions in which the university’s cooperation with other bodies is heading, and if this has an impact on raising the level of innovation in Europe. Methodology. A look at the model of cooperation between universities and the environment and search for an appropriate framework of benefit from this kind of collaborationon scientific literature review. Moreover, the desk research regarding the EIT Food – one ofthe European initiatives in the food sector. Key findings. The analyses carried out allow us to state that the concept of the knowledge triangle is not just a theoretical idea. The concept has its application in practice. It was also identified that universities are the main engine of all undertaken activities in thefield of education, research and innovation.

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SMART GUIDE - THE INTERNET OF CULTURAL THINGS

Author(s): Andrey Petrov,Alexander Petrov,Vanya Ivanova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The paper presents different approaches of preserving valuable historical data using modern technologies. The IoT paradigm can easily be applied to the field of cultural and historical heritage. Static cultural places can greatly benefit popularity from intelligent objects, sensors, applications and services. Software architecture of an innovative tourist guide is presented

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Макроикономическа теория и политика за макроикономическа стабилизация – поява и развитие до глобалната финансова криза от 2008-2009 година

Author(s): Hristo Mavrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The aim of the study is to prove that a link between major crisis economic events, macroeconomic theories and macroeconomic stabilization policies exists. On the basis of a historical analysis of the period between the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008, it was found that each of the great theoretical achievements in the 20th century - Keynesian theory, Monetarism and the New classical macroeconomics, as well as macroeconomic policies , which they assume, arises in response to significant crisis changes in the real economy. As a result of the Great Depression of 1929, Keynesian theory and the discretionary fiscal policy emerged. Stagflation in the early 1970s received its theoretical explanation from the monetarism and the new classical economy and the period of domination of monetary policy based on rules followed. On this base conclusion is made of the existence of a universal and periodically recurring causal relationship between the dramatic economic events, the emergence and development of economic theories and the corresponding changes in the goals and instruments of macroeconomic policy in the different countries.

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Значение и факторна обусловеност на структурната конвергенция на пазара на труда в Европейския съюз – теоретични аспекти

Author(s): Kristina Stefanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The article is a critical review, systematization, comparison and summary of the views on the role of the consumption for the dynamics of the economy from Cantillon to Keynes. Emphasis is placed on the alternatives of ideas, explained by the different assumptions and suggestions of the authors, and the changes in the economic conjuncture. In the context of the global crisis, the debate is revived, and the increasing demand is again one of the main opportunities for the implementation of the macroeconomic policy.

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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE, FOCUSIONG ON HUNGARY'S INDUSTRY FROM THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN COMPROMISE OF 1867 TO THE WORLD WAR I

Author(s): Gergő Kun / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2019

This article examines the particularity and complexities of industrial development and business-government relations in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, especially in Hungary between 1867 and 1914. The paper looks looking into the interactions between the Hungarian government, the Viennese court and Hungary’s most prominent companies from the pre-world war period. In the period under discussion Hungary was still mainly an agrarian country but after the compromise between Austria and Hungary industrial development increased and started to catch up with the Austrian competitors. The study highlights the main trends of the applied industrial development policies and their effects on the economy and the companies themselves.

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THE CHURN PHENOMENON – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Author(s): Andreea DUMITRACHE / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2019

The interest in investigating the phenomenon of customer migration to the competition has grown in recent years. The efficient management of the customer base has become a powerful tool which plays a significant role in maintaining stable revenues in businesses around the world. This paper presents the evolution of research that has extensively studied the churn phenomenon and focuses on several topics: research fields according to the number of publications, research organizations, written language, authors, industries, research areas, types of works and so on. The paper also defines the terminology, the taxonomy and the causal factors of the phenomenon.

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Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-12 March

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 03/16/2020

Today’s regional roundup: Judging Slovak judges; a trans-breakthrough in Russia; Lithuanian independence; an Uzbek city goes green; and biking in Czechia.

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Transitions Online_Around the Bloc-13 March

Author(s): Ioana Caloianu / Language(s): English Issue: 03/16/2020

Headlines from around the region: Coronavirus update; Russian athletes; Serbian Orthodoxy in Montenegro; the Nazarbaevs’ London real estate; and Romania’s fishy new citizens.

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In search for a realistic perspective on urban safety: The attractiveness concerns caused by mass-immigration

Author(s): Tom Kauko / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Safety aspects comprise an important determinant of urban location choice. How negative social externalities and their mitigation influences the attractiveness of housing, business, recreational and civic locations in cities concerns both human and property rights. Amidst the ongoing immigrant and refugee crisis this also requires dealing with current hot topics such as immigrant ghettoes and asylum centres. This paper argues that, in the face of practical problems of heightened risk for violent crime including terrorism, solutions ought to be pragmatic rather than ideological. Recognising and managing these problems are vital pre-conditions for keeping urban areas and neighbourhoods liveable. A successful management of this situation could then be used as a strategy for city competition. This in turn would help us return towards a constructive discourse concerning the issues at stake here.

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Understanding the trends and characteristics of smart urbanism across continents

Author(s): Lim Seng Boon,Jalaluddin Abdul MALEK,Mohd Yusof HUSSAIN,Zurinah TAHIR / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2020

Lack of understanding across the global north and global south, and with the need for alternative development paths in smart urbanism discourse are issues highlighted by recent smart urbanism research. Therefore, this paper aims to comprehend the trends of smart urbanism across contrasting geographies and to learn about the alternative direction of the development of smart cities. This study applied the research methods of document analysis and case study on the continents of North America, Europe, and Asia. The study showed that the North America corporations (i.e., IBM smarter city) are leading the approach of technology-driven method (TDM) and corporate smart city concept, European scholars and institutions have strong influence on the human-driven method (HDM) approach (i.e., the Amsterdam smart city), while Asian countries are discursively learning and applying smart city’s ideas and practices from North America and Europe. A mixture of approaches are found in Asian countries, such as the TDM approach in China and Malaysia, and the case of a shift of paradigm towards HDM with Singapore. Overall, the authors found that the worldwide trend was dominated by the TDM approach. However, a push towards the HDM approach was also apparent, with the appearance of proposals such as citizen centricity and participation. The results of this study serve as a benchmark on the normative neoliberal politics and an opportunity to nurture humanism aspects. This paper marks a contribution to the phenomenon of contemporary smart urbanism and provides insights for policymakers and stakeholders who wish to work together as co-partners in the quest for a more humanistic smart city.

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Enhancing investment through cyber security policies –

Author(s): Tomço Vilma,PASHAJ Klorenta / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2020

Today the security of a nation state is not only restricted to its borders and sovereignty but it also extends to protecting against new borderless risks and threats. Globalization and the growth of an interconnected global environment through the Internet have brought immense societal benefits but have also opened up new venues for attacks and threats from governments, criminals, terrorists, private companies, and individuals. The emergence of actors from different locations, with different motives and the desire to challenge the rule of law and international order who can employ readily available tools and operate in a global cyber environment makes it incredibly challenging for nation states to successfully employ protective measures.In this article will be drawn a clear picture of the current situation of the cyber ecosystem in Republic of Albania. Then will be reviewed the investment of the private and public sector in the field of cyber security. At the end will be given recommandations stated in the Value section below.Prior work In January 2017, was approved the law on Cyber Security and bylaws on Critical and Important Information Infrastructures. Since Albania is non-EU member state, the NIS Directive is not fully transposed in the law, but there is a good will between actors to improve the current cyber security situation.Approach In order to capture the evidences in this article are used the methods of observation and case study of different information systems in Albania. Moreover, in order to analyze benefits of increasing the investment on cyber security, different cases from the region and Europe will be shown.Results As information technology is developing rapidly, it is necessary to apply innovative, simple and secure methods, and increase investments in the cyber security field. In this article will be shown the real statistics of how the sectors have invests after the approval of the legal framework in Albania..Implications This article contains implications for the groups of academics, who can use the statics and case studies in order to improve and update their lectures; for researchers who can take to another level the recommendations and for the practitioners who can update their knowledge on cyber security field in Albania.Value This article gives recommandations for building a high protected information system or mechanism for raising the level of security of the information systems. It also contains guidelines for public administration and private sector for building resilience in cyber security ecosystem in Albania.

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