The authors provide definition for a concept "commercial bank competitive ability"; there are considered various methods for bank competitiveness evaluation and their characteristics.
Keywords: bank competitive ability, rating, evaluation method, coefficients, indicators, rating
agencies, analysis, factors.
The article deals with the concept and main principles of warehouse logistics. The key problems of enterprise logistic warehousing organizing and management are singled out and analyzed. There is reflected a graphic interpretation of economic viability for technical equipment exploitation in warehousing.
Keywords: warehouse logistics, materials management, warehouse capacity optimization, storehouse
technical equipment.
The Russian oil-products market and non-transparency of price formation as its special characteristic are under discussion. Two information disclosure sources are described - information agencies and exchange. The results of oil-products bidding in 2011 are analyzed. The imperfections of laws and regulations are revealed.
Keywords: oil products market, exchange, oil products cost, non-transparency, price formation.
Angelina B. Vishnyakova, candidate of Economics, associate professor; Mikhail S. Pankov, a post¬graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics.
The article covers the main trends of bank products sales channels and service development; there is proved the need of bank corporate clients segmentation on grounds of internet-banking use; the priority factors of structural changes in bank economic sector and the tendencies of banking service investment development are described.
Keywords: remote service channel, bank corporate client segmentation, internet-banking, mobile
banking, remote service.
The article covers the existing classification criteria of foreign business risks in scientific literature in Economics; the author suggests adding two more classification features to this range. Such approach gives an opportunity to keep a full register of risks in order to increase the results of foreign economic activities maintained by Russian industrial enterprises.
Keywords: foreign economic activity risks, industrial enterprises, foreign trade risks classification,
foreign economic activity business-processes, international integration processes, forms of foreign
economic activities.
The article deals with key problem complex which arose as a result of protocol ratification covering Russia’s accession to World Trade Organization. The main institutional constraints preventing Russia’s structural integration to the trade system based on congruency of interests with foreign partners are defined. The range of immanent problems characteristic of Russian market-driven economy on the modern stage are discussed. The author suggests package plan aimed at competitive ability increase in the conditions of transnational business as a core motif for fundamental modernization in the country.
Keywords: economy modernization, competitive ability degree, index of entrepreneurial confidence,
investment activeness, products-substitutes, labor productivity, profitability rate, sectors -
growth drivers.
The essence of modern distribution system and its elements are under discussion. The content of logistic centers activities and their development factors are defined. The aims of logistic centers formation and the functions they perform are pointed out.
Keywords: distribution, distribution logistics, distribution system organizing, warehouse infrastructure,
logistic centers.
Tatyana E. Evtodieva, candidate of Economics, associate professor; Anastasiya A. Khromykh, a post-graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics
The basic forms of counteragents interaction in supply chains are determined; there are provided grounds for internalization, externalization and virtualization advantages and drawbacks; the concepts of interaction among suppliers, consumers and service providers in supply chains are singled out.
Keywords: supply chains, internalization, externalization, virtualization, concept, suppliers, consumers,
service providers.
The essence, reasons and main occurrence of state regulatory failures are analyzed. There are provided grounds for a supposition about imperfection of institute of state in the field of resource allocation that leads to high social costs. The authors consider their own vision of the problem and ways of their solution.
Keywords: theory of state regulatory failures, public choice theory, state, regulation, fiasco of the
state, social and economic policy.
Major theories of competitiveness and interrelation between competitiveness and competitive abilities are under discussion. The scheme is constructed and the interconnections within competitive relation system are revealed. Level distribution of competitiveness according to the subject is suggested.
Keywords: competitiveness, competitive relations, theories of competitiveness, competitive ability,
competitiveness levels, competitive advantages, competitive position, competitive relations
system.
The tempo of global economic development combined with the tasks set by the government of the country highlight the necessity of efficiency increase from industrial enterprise circulating capital use, including enterprise-block "oil-refining" aimed at providing stable economic development on innovational base.
Keywords: circulating capital, oil refining, structure, innovative development, investment strategy,
vertically-integrated company, efficiency.
The article considers the methods for territorial disproportion identification and pointing out difference between the level and quality of bus passenger transport functioning. All this made it possible to single out subjects of the Russian Federation possessing a potential for transport infrastructure development. The retrospective analysis was carried out; main trends of regional "stratification" according to the investigated characteristics were revealed.
Keywords: transport strategy, territorial disproportions in transport infrastructure development,
regional differentiation, clustering, regions stratification, passenger turnover factor score level,
retrospective analysis.
Special features of Russian economy functioning in the conditions of increasing negative impact caused by such systematic factor as global unsteadiness growth are under discussion.
Keywords: Russian economy, global unsteadiness, coordinates of economic globalization.
The author presents methods for auditing services value perception by consumers. The parameters necessary for client expectations assessment are described. The value assessment matrix is constructed; summary accounting table reflecting customer preferences is provided.
Keywords: auditing services, service value, consumer expected value, loyalty, satisfaction, service
value assessment methods, service cost.
Notwithstanding the rise of statistics, the tendencies of money market are mostly of a negative character. On the one hand, market volume increases together with its volatility. On the other hand, the high-risk assets crisis and investments into prudent instruments intensify. All this leads to destabilization, forecast complication and absence of clear perspectives for the currency market. Speaking about the perspectives of currency market first of all there is a need to single out its leaders and outsiders.
Keywords: Russian money market, global foreign-exchange market, tendencies and perspectives of
global foreign-exchange market.
Vyacheslav A. Perepelkin, candidate of Economics, associate professor; Dmitriy I. Khodakovskiy, a post-graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics.
The article considers the models of online-shops demand multivariance analysis. The author has developed a conceptual model for online-consumer satisfaction in regard to Internet commerce services.
Keywords: Internet-shops services, consumers, satisfaction index, factors, determinants
The article deals with the tasks and problems an organization faces in the process of creation of new structural subdivisions far from the central office. The ways for the necessary information and knowledge transfer using knowledge management technologies aimed at decreasing of the period needed to occupy a certain efficiency level for new business units are described.
Keywords: regional office, knowledge management, cognitive and transfer knowledge management,
knowledge management system.
In the modern conditions, production efficiency improvement can be achieved mainly with the help of innovation processes development which in close-form is expressed in new technologies and new kinds of competitive products. Search and use of innovations immediately in enterprises pose acute problems. The development of new technical and organizational-technological solutions, improvement of basic management principles applied to the special features of domestic market provide conditions for reproduction process renovation and give momentum to additional economic growth. By nature innovations comprise not only technical or technological projects but also any changes to the better in all spheres of scientific and production activities. Constant upgrading of the technical equipment makes innovation process a prior condition for competitive products manufacturing, for winning and holding the positions of the enterprise in the market and for productivity gain as well as enterprise efficiency.
Keywords: technological limit, innovation processes, technology park of scientific and technical
achievements, innovation infrastructure.
The concept "scientific and technological potential" is revealed. Scientific and technological potential of mechanic engineering in Kazakhstan is analyzed based on statistic data. The author deals with the main reasons which provide a negative influence on the development of domestic scientific and technological market, innovative infrastructure and technology commercialization process system formation.
Keywords: scientific and technological potential, development strategy, mechanic engineering,
production technology, management efficiency.
The article presents operational characteristics analysis according to the accomplished economic events expressed in physical and cost terms which helps to reveal internal reserve for motor transport enterprise financial state improvement. Actual data are compared with calculated rates, previous periods indicators; the interdependence between different indicators and their influence on service rendered indicator estimated in tones and ton-kilometers are considered.
Keywords: cargo turnover, ton-kilometer, automobile hour, automobile days, automobile utilization
coefficient, cargo-carrying capacity.
The article considers the essence of organizational and functional models of mortgage housing credit used world-wide from the point of its basic function - long-term financial resource formation.
Keywords: mortgage housing credit, models of mortgage housing credit, mortgage credit refinancing,
securitization.
The article deals with the problems in housing and utilities sector in the Russian Federation such as high level of equipment deterioration (the resources are depleted), use of outdated technologies, branch financing gap, improper exploitation and human maintenance errors, defects caused by improper equipment repair, disturbance of chemical water treatment, use of non-projected kinds of fuel. There are provided grounds for public-private partnership development in this branch aimed at raising interaction efficiency among government and local authorities, business-structures, non-governmental organization and housing and utilities complex modernization in the Russian Federation.
Keywords: rules and regulations, accident rate, housing, housing and utilities sector, public-private
partnership, modernization, engineering services, business, infrastructure, reformation.
The article deals with the aspects of transforming information and knowledge into the leading production factor which have become the main trend of post-industrial economy and can be called objective prerequisite for radical change in business strategy. These preconditions have lead to the fact that modern organizations become increasingly dependent from the ability of the employees to use their resources effectively for good production.
Keywords: innovation management, human resources carriers, freelancers, innovative organizations,
innovation human resources management, innovative enterprise.
Mariya O. Suraeva, candidate of Economics, associate professor; Alena V. Kuzicheva, a post-graduate student; Olga V. Kuznetsova, a post-graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics.
The article throws light upon the major problems connected with legal and regulatory framework of small enterprise business. There are pointed out several problems concerning accounting and bookkeeping in small enterprises and ways of their solution.
Keywords: legal and regulatory framework of small enterprise business, accounting in small enterprises,
recording of small enterprises
The article considers methods for entrepreneurial higher education establishment development stability; its distinct feature in comparison with other is synthesis of the concepts "effectiveness" and "development stability". There is suggested a mechanism for state financing oriented at effective performance of higher educational institution.
Keywords: stability, development, entrepreneurial higher education establishment, assessment,
financing method.
Tatyana V. Terentyeva, Head of Accounting and Audit Department; Marina N. Kulakova, senior lecturer. - Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service.
The key concepts and approaches to service classification are analyzed. Classical examples are given. The foreign approach is described; the major problems are pointed out.
Keywords: services, service classification, specific features of services, statistic analysis, foreign
approaches, service ranging.
The article covers the types of technological modes; dominating production factors in each of them are singled out. There is given the example of competitiveness rate evaluation of the countries with the help of World Economic Forum (WEF) methods. There is carried out correlation-regression analysis concerning the dependence of investment activeness of the country from service industry segment size in GDP total volume.
Keywords: technological modes (waves), domination production factor, investments, innovative
processes, competitiveness indexes, World Economic Forum.
There are provided definitions of the concepts based on performance targets as well as brief description of methods for constructing each of these management systems.
Keywords: logistic strategy, management structure, analysis, target.
Dana V. Chernova, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Director of Commerce and Service Institute; Sergey A. Stepanov, a post-graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics.
The author deals with various approaches to expected economic benefit estimation caused by automated scheduling system implementation and suggests calculation methods for them.
Keywords: economic benefit, oil-processing plant, scheduling, production rate, computerization.
The author deals with and proves the relevance of sales networks identification methods aimed at institutionalization in consumer market. The author has made an attempt to develop standards for setting up correspondence (legal identity) eligibility for referring trade integration to classical sales networks and trade business-networks.
Keywords: methods, identification, sales networks, retail, classical sales networks, sales businessnetworks,
features, principles, indicators.
The author throws light upon the process of social and cultural transformation of family and marriage institution in the field of sociology. Special attention is paid to the changes in patterns of family life - transition from traditional inner relation forms within family members to social pattern of life. The article presents the data from independent sociological research concerning the studied issue; there was made critical analysis from sociological viewpoint.
Keywords: traditional family pattern, social family pattern, family and marriage institution, social
and cultural transformation, family relations.