{"title":"About the Corporate Social Responsibility Beyond the Framework of Charity","authors":"M. Georgieva","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2020.9.1.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2020.9.1.35","url":null,"abstract":"The pursuit of \"sustainable development\" in the 21st century requires from companies to be good corporate citizens. The practical approach to achieving this is related to integrating the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into the overall corporate strategy. For companies in Bulgaria this is a relatively new practice. The lack of sufficient experience influences the understanding of some businesspersons on the scope of socially responsible behavior and, as a result, in some cases, limits it to charity events. Referring to the results of an empirical study on the carbonated soft drinks market in Bulgaria, this article aims to present CSR beyond the framework of charity. The collected data proves that in this market, both for producers/bottling companies and for consumers, charity is isolated and insufficient manifestation of socially responsible behavior. Recognizing a company as a good corporate citizen on the one hand and exercising such behavior on the other hand requires a much wider form of CSR engagement. The statistical affirmation of the latter assertion suggests that this understanding of the nature of CSR could be also relevant for representatives of the other sectors of the economy in Bulgaria.","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"R-31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126630105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big Data Usage in Retail Industry","authors":"A. Timofeeva","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.2.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.2.75","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a review of the essence and application of Big Data and Analytics in the retail industry, including e-commerce. The vast and complex data generated nowadays is in the scope of the Big Data technologies. The computer-based automation of data management and analysis enables business organizations to discover hidden models and useful knowledge which refer to the business processes. The article highlights data-driven and analysis-based approaches to commerce and identifies the leading software solutions and their capabilities. The main aim is to bring out the business benefits of using Big Data and Analytics technologies in the retail industry. In the digital era the speed and breadth of knowledge turnover within the economy increases and the advantages become more accessible for the industries.","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126748289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Characteristics of Bulgarian Reward-Based Crowdfunding Campaigns","authors":"Nevena Dobreva","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.1.174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.1.174","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116613549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students' Internship and the Higher Education in Tourism in Support of the Regional Businesses: Methodology","authors":"M. Veleva, Krasimira Yancheva","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.1.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.1.129","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this paper is to highlight the problems and opportunities for integrating university graduates in the tourism industry through their practical internship, and to propose a methodology for measuring its effectiveness. The research brings out the most common problems and peculiarities, in twelve countries, in the practical training of tourism students: overtime without payment; lack of supervision and control of the students’ performance; insufficient on-boarding; lack of on-the-job training; students become subject to dark leadership and are directly discriminated against or denied full rights to work and fair pay; gap between too high job expectations and reality; The curricula does not always meet the needs of the tourism practice. Based on the analysis of the students’ internship in the specialty \"Tourism\" at the University of Economics - Varna, a new methodology for measuring its effectiveness is proposed.","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129620154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digitalization of Banking Services and Methodology for Building and Functioning of Fintech Companies","authors":"P. Petrov, N. Valov","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.1.110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.1.110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116455523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opportunities for Classifying the Material Stocks by Several Criteria","authors":"Tanka Milkova","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114218060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistics for Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel","authors":"S. Todorova","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.2.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.2.68","url":null,"abstract":"Today business research is based on the manipulation of large amounts of data from the Internet, company sources, public sources, and others. Business analytics must extract useful information from a big data set and to make a decision. Whether you are analyzing a client's data or company's data to make decisions, your tools have to be able to handle the tasks you perform with that information. The goal of this paper is to illustrate the use of Excel's Analysis ToolPak for developing complex statistical analysis. MS Excel is widespread, user-friendly, easy to learn, and powerful. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to show how free Analysis ToolPak add-in works and what it can do. In one hand Analysis ToolPak is powerful, but in the other hand it has some weaknesses that we should be aware of.","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130711436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overview of the Electricity Market for Household Customers in Bulgaria in the Period 2004 - 2017","authors":"N. Petrova","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.2.189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.2.189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"14 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131324373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Importance of Non-Store Retailing for Product Exchange in Varna District","authors":"M. Stojanov","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.1.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2019.8.1.47","url":null,"abstract":"The penetration of digital technologies into the ordinary daily life of a person creates a huge sphere of emerging opportunities with its specific and significant economic and social importance. In terms of product exchange, the field of attracting, stimulating and satisfying consumer demand is gradually migrating to the new dimensions of digital technology and the Internet. Today, more and more retailers are successfully adapting information and communication technologies to carry out their businesses into the new economy. This enables their favorable development at global, national and regional levels and the need for systematic studies. The article examines the main economic indicators of the activity of business agents of non-store retail trade in Varna region, which allows to draw a picture of the specific regional development and to look at the background similarities and differences with the processes taking place at national and global level.","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116236769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligent Packaging","authors":"M. Stojanov","doi":"10.36997/ijusv-ess/2020.9.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36997/ijusv-ess/2020.9.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147865,"journal":{"name":"Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124009791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}