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The Restructuring and Conversion of the Bulgarian Defense Industry during the Transition Period
by Dimitar Dimitrov
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Theoretical Background of the Study
- Particular characteristics of socialist defense enterprises
Historical overview
- The Defense Industry After WWII
- The Defense Industry in the 1970s and 80s
- Planning processes, state bodies and procedures during socialism
- The Structure of the Bulgarian MIC
- Initial Conditions for Transformation
The Restructuring of the Defense Industry
- Factors and strategies for conversion
- Organizational restructuring and downsizing
- Product restructuring
- Management and personnel restructuring
Privatization
State Policies and Regulations
- State Defense Industrial Policy: Pros and Cons
- Government Regulations and State Bodies
- The Role of the MoD
The Arms trade
R&D and Innovations
Foreign cooperation
The Conversion of Bulgaria’s Defense Industry
- The Role of the State in the Conversion Process
- The Background of Companies Slated for Conversion in Bulgaria
- Conversion in the 1990s
- What next?
Conclusion: Future Options and Future Problems in the Bulgarian Defense Industry
References
Appendixes
- Appendix 1: Enterprises in the Bulgarian Defense industrial complex
Samel-Samokov, VMZ-Sopot, Dunarit-Rousse, Arsenal-Kazanlak, Arkus-Lyaskovets, Terem - Appendix 2: Bulgarian arms export (1989-1999)US $ (million)
- Appendix 3: Bulgaria’s Arms Transfer Deliveries and Total Trade, 1987-1997
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