EXPLORING THE NUANCES IN THE RELATIONSHIP “CULTURE-STRATEGY” IN THE BUSINESS WORLD

The current article explores interesting, significant and recently identified nuances in the relationship “culture-strategy”. The shared views of leading scholars at the University of National and World Economy in relation with the essence, direction, structure, role and hierarchy of “culture-strategy” relation are defined as a starting point of the analysis. The research emphasis is directed on recent developments in interpreting the observed realizations of the aforementioned link among the community of international scholars and consultants, publishing in selected electronic scientific databases. In this way a contemporary notion of the nature of “culture-strategy” relationship for the entities from the world of business is outlined

Opportunities And Challenges In Publishing And Promoting Scientific Journals In Bulgaria

Presentation of scientific papers is associated with the creation of new scientific journals and the maintenance of established periodicals. This paper discusses and analyzes two challenges to publishing scientific journals in Bulgaria –first, securing a pool of suitable reviewers and second –maintaining good relations with potential authors. The paper proposes views based on exponential thinking that would lead to profound, positive changes based on the use of new technologies in scientific journal publishing. In practice, they are inextricably linked to the implementation of social innovations, resulting from the establishment of a new balance among stakeholders at different levels of realization of management. The paper attempts to assist lecturers and researchers in their professional pursuits

EDGAR SCHEIN’S MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE LEVELS AS A HOLOGRAM

The current study dwells upon Edgar Schein’s original framework for exploring organizational culture by classifying its elements to three levels. Important directions of model’s elaboration are identified and analyzed. The last have been undertaken by different researchers in the last three decades, based on individual’s necessities, involvement and experience with the application in practice of this model. Viewing Schein’s model as a hologram is recommended as a way to dissolve subjectively identified by different authors issues or ambiguities in this framework. Thus, a contemporary, useful and richer “snapshot” of this model is proposed for use in the organizations during these turbulent times when cultural intelligence capabilities come of greater importance for their successful market performanc

SOME FACETS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN BULGARIA AFTER THE PRIVATIZATION

The current article presents a part of the results of empirical survey, conducted to explore the condition of human resource management in the privatized industrial organizations in our country. The generated results may assist the surveyed companies’ managers in their pursuit of high level organization’s competitiveness after Bulgaria’s unification with the European Union members

TALENT MANAGEMENT – AN ETYMOLOGICAL STUDY

The current article unveils and analyzes important shades of meaning for the widely discussed term ‚talent management‘. It not only grounds the outlined perspectives in incremental formulation and elaboration of this construct, but also is oriented to exploring the underlying reasons for the social actors, proposing new nuances. Thus, a mind map and a fish-bone diagram are constructed to depict effectively and efficiently the current state of development for talent management and make easier the realizations of future research endeavours in this field

Human resource management in business organizations under exponential growth conditions

The current article explores the image of success in the contemporary business environment, embedded in organizational settings as the “exponential organizations”. The essence of exponential human resource management is outlined based on critical review of the continuum of revolutions (evolution) in this functional sphere in business organizations. Strong attention is paid to human resource management practices, adopted by these companies, smoothly operating under the conditions of exponential growth