Abstract

The paper studies the genesis and basic factors influencing the development of the entrepreneurship in Bulgaria. It presents an outline of the history of the Bulgarian business and entrepreneurship and examines the characteristic features of the different periods, as well as the factors underlying these features. Some generalized evaluations are made concerning the influence of the economic freedoms, the degree of state intervention, the influence of the European culture and the "capital-labour" relations. The thesis developed in the paper is that the future of the Bulgarian entrepreneurship depends on the difficult process of adoption and general acceptance by all participants in the market of new social values concerning the economy of time, thriftiness, contract obligations, job discipline, tax payment, etc.