According to the agreed research methodology during the Budapest meeting in January 1994, the Bulgarian research team carried out the following activities:
- A team of researchers was formed mainly from the CSD:
Dr. Daniela Bobeva - Director of the Economic Programme of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Jordan Markov - research fellow, Julia Dobreva- research fellow, Sonya Dilova - research fellow. The team prepared the draft questionnaire for the survey of the companies (first phase of the project). This questionnaire was approved by the other countries participating in the project.
- Eighty-five standardized interviews were carried out in the first phase of the ACE Research Project "Investigating the Efficiency of West-European Consulting Companies Working for East-European Companies". The aim of the survey was to evaluate to what extent the practice of using foreign or domestic consultants was spread among Bulgarian state owned companies. The survey gave an opportunity to compare the efficiency and acceptance of foreign and Bulgarian
consulting companies. The main results of the survey were presented to the other teams in the project.
