The article reflects trends of social investment which are supposed to be developed according to the tendencies and conditions considerably influencing life quality. There are presented general conditions of state guaranty use for receiving profitable social investments by organizations, companies, individual persons. There is proved the need to form basic methodological guidelines providing significant influence on defining and allocation of social investment volumes that require formation of decision-making mechanisms support in the process of social investment.
Keywords: social investment, state guaranty, organizations, decision-making mechanism, social sphere,
effectiveness, budget social orientation, government regulation, financing, social support.
The article is concentrated upon methodological approaches to estimation of development level of region informatization. There is developed a correspondent indicative index system; methodological approaches to integral estimation of regional information system development are suggested.
Keywords: informatization, region, integrated informatization index of the region.
Svetlana I. Ashmarina, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of Department “Applied Management”; Stanislav V. Kazarin, a post-graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics.
The article covers characteristic traits and current state of the Russian banking system as well as the ability of commercial banks to compete against each other and against international banks.
Keywords: banking system, competitiveness, competitive advantages, active assets, proprietory funds,
credits.
Vadim Ya. Vishnever, candidate of Economics, associate professor; Liliya T. Gilmutdinova, a post-graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics.
The authors deal with major competitive purchasing operations and special features of competitive procurement of resources in electric-power industry. There are described organizational and legal issues of purchasing process on the stages including order statement, placement and fulfillment.
Keywords: procurement scheduling, purchasing system in electric-power industry, competitive procurement,
problems in resource procurement organization.
The authors have made an attempt to form economic method for estimation and accounting of innovational potential of an enterprise. Presentation of the material starts with the definition of the concept of innovational potential in the modern interpretation; after that there are revealed methodological approaches to enterprise innovational potential estimation and analysis; in conclusion there is provided tentative examples and there are discussed possibilities to use the elaborated method in innovational activities.
Keywords: innovational potential, innovative potential types, innovative development strategy, financial
stability, classification of innovation-financial stability.
Yuliya V. Volkova, candidate of Economics, lecturer; Rafael R. Valiakhmetov, a post-graduate student; Anna A. Moiseenko, a post-graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics.
The article deals with levels of cross-border cooperation between territorial units; there is provided a definition for the concept "cross-border cooperation of municipal units". Examination of its essence is a paramount step for development of measures to increase the effectiveness from cross-border territorial interaction.
Keywords: cross-border cooperation, barrier properties, contact ability, border, cross-border region, municipal
unit, interstate cross-border cooperation, interregional cross-border cooperation, intermunicipal crossborder
cooperation.
It is stated that competitiveness is one of the most important elements of the market as an economic system. Banking competitiveness is one of the kinds of market competitiveness which forms as far as credit organizations implement money-credit, investment, calculated-payment competitiveness and any other connected with realization of bank products and services in the market.
Keywords: competitiveness, banking competitiveness, competitiveness sphere, subject matter of
competitiveness, competitiveness object and subject.
Konstantin N. Ermolaev, candidate of Economics, associate professor; Stanislav P. Karchagin, a post-graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics.
The article deals with the problem of new employees adaptation in the organization in the modern conditions of struggle between companies for valuable personnel.
Keywords: human resources, personnel adaptation, staff turnover, supervision, motivation.
The article reveals the differences between internal and international logistic activities. There are provided development tendencies of international sales that influence on carrying out logistic operations beyond national borders. There is reflected the role of information concerning logistic costs in the development of national logistic systems.
Keywords: logistics, international logistics, global logistics, life cycle of international logistics, logistic
costs.
The authors discuss the problems of Russian oil processing industry in order to assure market with up-to-date, pollution-free kinds of fuel. There is made a suggestion about priority of investing into production according to the developed authors’ methods for product market attractability identification based on additive marketing potential calculations.
Keywords: oil processing industry, effectiveness, modernization, ecology, market, investments, additive
marketing potential.
Irina K. Kiforenko, candidate of Economics, associate professor; Alevtina A. Prokhorenko, Doctor of Economics, Professor. - Samara State Technical University.
The article covers special features of market capacity evaluation in electric power industry service which is a vital task for modern electric power industry preconditioned by technological and economic specificity of the branch. There is considered a classification of the existing approaches to market capacity evaluation. There are suggested unique methods which allow to evaluate service market capacity with the help of accessible objective information and to take sensible managerial decisions based on this evaluation concerning service and electric repairing enterprises entering new markets.
Keywords: market, market capacity, market segment, electric power industry, energetic service, electric
reliability, quantitative evaluation of base market.
The essence of the principles of investment projects effectiveness evaluation is characterized (the principles are revealed). The author deals with the analysis structure of project socio-economic and commercial effectiveness. The necessity to make own evaluation of the project using the given principles is proved.
Keywords: effectiveness, investment project, principles of investment projects evaluation.
The author singles out characteristic traits of software, special nature of business in IT-companies. There is underlined that there should be applied a special approach to program project management.
Keywords: software engineering, software engineering management, guidance for program engineering body
of knowledge, immateriality, uniqueness and changeability of software.
Lack of scientific research concerning venture capital in modern economic theory emerges the necessity to investigate in detail each component of the venture capital investment process. In order to reveal theoretical bases of venture capital and venture capital investments the authors had to correlate these concepts with the essence of the capital and the essence of investment in the framework of economic schools and theories. The article covers theoretical aspects of investments in general and the same from the point of venture capital investments in particular.
Keywords: venture capital, venture capital investments, venture business, innovations.
There are analyzed fluctuations of demand on the goods, production capacity as well as problems arising in connection with storing of goods before their disposal, with nonobservance of the terms of an agreement by the supplier that can cause considerable loss in perspective.
Keywords: enterprise business analysis, manufacturing programme, costs optimization, warehousing system,
output plan.
In order to maintain intensive enterprise development on innovation base there is a need to carry out investment programs in the framework of the chosen investment strategy subject to the general investment strategy of an enterprise projected in long term. In connection to this fact implementation of the investment strategy appears to be one of the key stages of strategic choice formation in regard to enterprise development.
Keywords: strategy, oil processing, structure, innovations, investment strategy, vertically integrated company,
efficiency.
Research approaches to intellectual capital are systematized. The point of view is based on the necessity to stick to methodological framework of research in regard to intellectual capital. This gives an opportunity to define the essence of intellectual capital, to demonstrate sources of its origin, solve the problem of economic realization of ownership connected with intellectual capital.
Keywords: intellectual capital, human capital assets, trefoil model FiMIAM, intellectual capital of a company,
intellectual capital of an employee.
The author suggests definition for the concept "hospitality industry"; there is questioned applicability of the concept "industry" to service business, service and hospitality spheres. Conceptual and terminological aspects are studies from the point of structure and development factors of the object under research. The structure of hospitality sphere is introduced as a complex set of spheres and activities, economic sectors, service and infrastructural systems aimed at guest service. Concept "guest" is interpreted as applied to any business sphere where the principles of hospitality are used. The structure and development factors of hospitality sphere are suggested to study in regard to certain territory and development stage.
Keywords: hospitality industry, sphere of hospitality, service, service business, tourism.
The analysis was carried out and there was estimated performance quality level of the functioning marketing information management system in heavy engineering enterprise. Development level of marketing information management system was calculated.
Keywords: marketing information, information support, informational interaction, marketing information
management system.
The article presents economic critical analysis of bidding results for maintaining launch of satellites belonging to the system "Obzor-O" to working orbit.
Keywords: inverse problem, price, profit, average wage, labor intensity.
Yuriy A. Sovetkin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor; Natalya V. Stepanova, a post-graduate student; Darya V. Scherbina, a post-graduate student - Samara State Aerospace University named after academician S.P. Korolev (National Research University)
The article deals with the aspects of financial and organizational activity held by European and American Football Leagues; fundamental differences between them are pointed out.
Keywords: football, football clubs, International Federation of Association Football, Football Leagues,
football competitions organization, club commercial activity, economic expediency, profit, competitiveness,
financial systems, fair-play.
Tagir M. Subeev, senior lecturer; Tatyana Yu. Subeeva, senior lecturer; Lyudmila G. Shikhovtsova, associate professor. - Samara State University of Economics.
The author considers a dynamic model for single nomenclature stock management in macrologistic system taking into account organization of production delivery process. This model enables optimization of production purchase volume from several suppliers and automobile transportations volume optimization when transportation is carried out by vehicles of various kinds in the course of delivering products consumer’s warehouses to distributed on some area using the criteria of minimum total logistic costs in the conditions of parameter changes in stock management process.
Keywords: dynamic model, stock management, macrologistic system, optimization, logistic costs, delivery
process.
The author analyzed foreign and Russian experience in application of controlling. The essential stages of its development were singled out based on the history of its formation. The major causes of Russian controlling falling behind the foreign one and the reasons of demand for controlling in Russian enterprises are determined.
Keywords: controlling, aims of controlling, American and German controlling models, controlling in Russia.
The article is concentrated on the transition to the new socio-economic model of entrepreneurial university. The concepts of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial university are revealed; the experience in implementation of entrepreneurial university model in Russia and abroad is analyzed.
Keywords: entrepreneurial university, entrepreneurship, “Triple Helix” model, entrepreneur, innovative ecosystem,
knowledge producing system.
The article presents marketing, economic and statistic analysis of educational services market. Key results of foreign scientific research concerning education systems are provided; the major problems are pointed out.
Keywords: educational services, marketing aspect, economic aspect, statistic analysis, foreign scientific
research.
The development dynamics of social networks and new approach to marketing communications by means of social media research in Russia are under consideration. The general characteristics of media are listed; trends and main components of social media are revealed.
Keywords: marketing communications, social networks, Internet technologies, commercial activities in social
networks.
Dana V. Chernova, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of Department “Commerce and Service”; Sergey S. Sariev, a post-graduate student. - Samara State University of Economics. E-mail:
The article considers the theoretical and practical issues concerning organizational changes in the modern companies. The causes of change resistance among employees are reflected. The principles of successful organizational changes management are stated.
Keywords: organizational changes, personnel resistance.
Theoretical aspects of enterprise competitiveness are revealed. There are provided recommendations for increasing competitive ability of an enterprise.
Keywords: competitiveness, competitive ability, cyclic character, economic crisis.