Year 2006, Issue 2

Date published

8.6.2006

Table of content

  • Lyuben Kirev
    The Business and Innovations
    JEL: O31
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  • Ivan Kotliarov
    Mathematical Theory of Labour Motivation
    JEL: C19
    Summary: The present article gives a list of axioms needed for building up a mathematical theory of human motivation. A mathematical model of labour motivation is proposed. Motivation is represented as a resulting vector of partial... The present article gives a list of axioms needed for building up a mathematical theory of human motivation. A mathematical model of labour motivation is proposed. Motivation is represented as a resulting vector of partial motivation generated by specific groups of needs. Vroom’s model is included in the proposed model as instant motivation. A correlation between the level of motivation and the level of productivity is established.
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  • Radoslav Gabrovski
    The Challenges in EU Business Environment: Possibilities or Problems for the Bulgarian Firms
    Summary: The paper focuses the attention upon some of the most significant challenges the Bulgarian business is to be faced with after joining with the EU. Highlighted the main areas and reasons for the difficulties and problems the country... The paper focuses the attention upon some of the most significant challenges the Bulgarian business is to be faced with after joining with the EU. Highlighted the main areas and reasons for the difficulties and problems the country would probably suffer in the new business environment. The author’s concept is that amongst the many efforts the Bulgarian companies would need to meet the rigid requirements of the new business-logic in EU market, business-re-engineering and risk management are of primary and utmost importance. From that point of view, some of the key areas and suggestions are briefly outlined below.
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  • Karim Naama
    The State of Information Technology in the Arab World
    JEL: O33
    Summary: Information technology has become extremely important in the post-Cold War world. Developments in information technology have been described as a revolution due to their role in spurring human communities into a higher stage of... Information technology has become extremely important in the post-Cold War world. Developments in information technology have been described as a revolution due to their role in spurring human communities into a higher stage of development based in on knowledge and information. Information capital has become an essential resource given that information technology, which refers to both information networks and telecommunications, is now considered a form of capital. The growing importance of information capital arises from the shift towards economic globalization, the growing need for diversifying sources of information to achieve sound decision-making, as well as the overall impact of information technology on the individual politically, socially, and culturally.
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  • Christian Valchev
    The Euro and its Introducing in Bulgaria - Prerequisites and Consequences
    JEL: F30
    Keywords: euro, Bulgaria
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  • Ludwig Von Mises
    Human Action - Part Four, Chapter XV. The Market
    Summary: The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybody's actions aim at the satisfaction of other people's needs as well... The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybody's actions aim at the satisfaction of other people's needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens. Everybody, on the other hand, is served by his fellow citizens. Everybody is both a means and an end in himself, an ultimate end for himself and a means to other people in their endeavors to attain their own ends.
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