This volume contains proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, held at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, in October of 2011. The
conference focused on the implications of the financial crisis that began in 2008 and views for economic sustainability. The nine included papers address: fiscal mischief and fiscal constraint
in the European crisis, economic Darwinism versus interventionism in economic policy, the impact of competitiveness development on social structures and values, participatory governance of
local public utilities, cluster development analysis of embedded systems in the European metropolitan region of Nuremberg, factors of success in mergers and acquisitions performance, social and
economic strategies for a sustainable society, and infrastructure economy as a nucleus for more sustainability. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)