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  SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONVERGENCE OF LIFE INSURANCE AND MARKET-ORIENTED SOCIAL INSURANCE

  The object of research is the life insurance market and the social insurance market in Bulgaria, and its subject is related to the outline of their organisational and economic characteristics, state, dynamics of development. Despite their independence, these markets are related. They complement and compete with each other and have a common aim – ... The object of research is the life insurance market and the social insurance market in Bulgaria, and its subject is related to the outline of their organisational and economic characteristics, state, dynamics of development. Despite their independence, these markets are related. They complement and compete with each other and have a common aim – to offer greater security to citizens in modern society. The purpose of research is focused on exploring the possibilities of their convergence. In order to realise this purpose, the following tasks are defined: - outlining the organisational and economic characteristics of life insurance and market-oriented social insurance; - studying parameters of the products offered on the life insurance market and social insurance market in Bulgaria; - revealing the specifics of the life insurance market and the social insurance market in Bulgaria and tracking the dynamics of their development; - outlining the directions for convergence of the insurance market and the social insurance market. The research thesis defended by the team is that finding similarities between the insurance market and the social insurance market allows to outline the possibilities for their organisational development and social cohesion through the borrowing of good practices and complementing each other.

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  THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN BULGARIAN FINANCIAL ENTERPRISES

  Digitalization affects every sphere of economic life. In financial enterprises, it is transforming human resources management. The purpose of the research is to study the degree of digital transformation of the human resources management in Bulgarian financial enterprises and to highlight the main benefits for them, as well as the obstacles they ... Digitalization affects every sphere of economic life. In financial enterprises, it is transforming human resources management. The purpose of the research is to study the degree of digital transformation of the human resources management in Bulgarian financial enterprises and to highlight the main benefits for them, as well as the obstacles they face in this process. Three main tasks are to be performed: building a theoretical framework of the research; empirical study of the degree and aspects of digital transformation in the human resources management of Bulgarian financial enterprises; systematization of the main problems and advantages of digital transformation in the human resources management of financial enterprises. The thesis is formulated as follows: digital transformation in financial enterprises is a vector process, with a systemic nature, which finds empirical evidence in the human resources management in an environment of an adapting regulatory framework, pandemic challenges, investment requirements and expectations for improved competitiveness and efficiency. The problem area of the study is human resource management policies and practices in Bulgarian financial enterprises, and the subject is the impact of digitalization on human resource management policies and practices in Bulgarian financial enterprises (banks, insurers and insurers). The research methodology is a questionnaire survey with 54 questions. Digitization has stimulated the introduction of teleworking, which in FP has been further accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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  RESEARCH THE IMPACT OF GERMAN DIRECT INVESTMENT AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL (AURUBIS BULGARIA CASE)

  Today, the effective functioning of the Bulgarian economy is unthinkable without foreign investments. The inflow of investments in our country from other countries, incl. of direct investments, is growing, especially after 2007. Their origin is diverse, but the leading place among foreign investors in Bulgaria is occupied by the Federal Republic ... Today, the effective functioning of the Bulgarian economy is unthinkable without foreign investments. The inflow of investments in our country from other countries, incl. of direct investments, is growing, especially after 2007. Their origin is diverse, but the leading place among foreign investors in Bulgaria is occupied by the Federal Republic of Germany. The volume of direct German investments in our country is constantly increasing, they are in various branches and industries, located in almost all regions of the country, and the majority of them are “green” investments. The largest direct German investment in our country – “Aurubis Bulgaria”, is focused in an export-oriented branch (metallurgy) that is key to the development of the national economy. The purpose of the present study is to identify and evaluate the main areas of influence exerted at the regional level by direct German investments, following the example of “Aurubis Bulgaria”. The object of the research is the realized German investment in “Aurubis Bulgaria”, and the subject – the influence it has at the regional level (the region of the Sredna gora region, covering the municipalities of Chavdar, Anton, Chelopech, Zlatitsa, Pirdop, Koprivshtitsa and Mirkovo). The results of the research confirmed the main research thesis that the activity of the German company has a multi-directional impact on life in the municipalities of the Sredna Gora Region and their development – an impact on the development of local business, competition, regional infrastructure, employment, income and the level of unemployment, municipal revenues, internal migration, the environment environment, social life, etc.