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  A PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR LECTURING TEAMS AT TODOR KABLESHKOV UNIVERSITY OF TRANSPORT

  This paper presents an original performance model of lecturing teams at Todor Kableshkov University of Transport, Sofia. The model is based on various managerial, social and behavioural theories. It combines classical and up-to-date theoretical achievements with regulations and established practices at Todor Kableshkov University of Transport. The ... This paper presents an original performance model of lecturing teams at Todor Kableshkov University of Transport, Sofia. The model is based on various managerial, social and behavioural theories. It combines classical and up-to-date theoretical achievements with regulations and established practices at Todor Kableshkov University of Transport. The specific features of the model relate primarily to the indicators proposed for measuring the results of the lecturing teams at the university. The paper consists of two parts. Part one presents the conceptual basis on which the performance model of lecturing teams at Todor Kableshkov University of Transport is developed, as well as the definitions of some basic notions related to the control on teams. Part one also reviews the team model as the basis of the performance model which is proposed. Part two explains the specific features and the determinants of the performance model and introduces the indicators applied to the formation, activity and results of the lecturing teams at the university

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  GLOBAL SOCIAL STATUS, NATIONAL SPIRITS OF CAPITALISM, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  This paper constructs a global economic growth model with endogenous social status, endogenous preferences, and wealth accumulation. The economic system is based the Solow model, the Uzawa two-sector model, and the Oniki-Uzawa trade model. We base our approach to measuring social status on some ideas in the literature of economic growth with ... This paper constructs a global economic growth model with endogenous social status, endogenous preferences, and wealth accumulation. The economic system is based the Solow model, the Uzawa two-sector model, and the Oniki-Uzawa trade model. We base our approach to measuring social status on some ideas in the literature of economic growth with endogenous growth. The model is specially based on a model proposed by Zhang (2016). This study considers relative social status as a function of a country’s relative wealth per household with the global average per household wealth. It treats time distribution between leisure and work as endogenous variables. The world economy is composed of any number of national economies and each national economy consists of one capital goods sector and one consumer goods sector. National economies differ in social status, preferences, spirits of capitalism, and productivities. We build the model for -country world economy and express the dynamics with differential equations. We simulate the movement of a 3-country global economy and carried out comparative dynamic analysis with regard to some parameters

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  LOW CARBON FOOTPRINT TRADE

  The impact which trade has on the economy, the performance of business entities and the daily life of individuals is in result of the immense significance and the scope it has acquired as a business activity. Although contemporary trade contributes to the carbon footprint of economic activity on the environment, it also provides a number of ... The impact which trade has on the economy, the performance of business entities and the daily life of individuals is in result of the immense significance and the scope it has acquired as a business activity. Although contemporary trade contributes to the carbon footprint of economic activity on the environment, it also provides a number of feasible opportunities for neutralizing the effect of the carbon footprint. While acting as the intermediaries in the exchange of goods and services, the agents engaged in trade need to develop efficient systems for waste management and resource allocation which, in addition to environmental benefits, will produce commensurate economic effects