The authors consider the institutional confidence in money as one of the factors determining the formation of a new model of management in the monetary sphere, which allows generating long-term money in the economy, ensuring its stability in times of crisis, as well as contributing to the reproduction of the horizontal coordination of socio-economic relations. It is revealed that the institutional confidence in money is a complex three-tier structure and it has multiple forms. The highest quantitative assessment of the institutional confidence is associated with the analysis of individuals’ propensity for actions that underlies the development of numerous confidence indices, reflecting the preferences of entities in their daily activities.
Keywords: institutional confidence, institution of money, monetary sphere, fiduciary rating.
Konstantin Y. Surikov, Candidate of Economics, a branch manager of the department of the Volga-Vyatka Main Directorate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the Samara region; Maria E. Konovalova, Doctor of Economics, Head of Economic Theory Department, Samara State University of Economics; Olga Y. Kuzmina, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Samara State University of Economics.
The article represents development approaches to the global management model of the international financial system that meets the challenges of the modern era. This model should be based on the synergy of global and local, national and universal.
Keywords: globalization, international financial system, synergetic, nonequilibrium economy, self-organization of complex systems.
The authors consider the peculiar phenomenon of developed countries “food desert”, reflecting the difficulties in physical and economic access to food. It is shown that imbalances in the territorial organization of the retail sale of food affect the development of cities and regions, the cultural landscape, the life of the population, and they change the structure of the consumer environment.
Keywords: food desert, retail trade, globalization, trade networks, cultural landscape, spatial segregation, food, health of population.
Milana V. Ragulina, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, a senior researcher; Marina A. Grigorieva, Candidate of Geographical Science, a senior research assistant - V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, Irkutsk.
The article examines the processes of mergers and acquisitions in the global pharmaceutical market for 2005-2015. The authors reveal major transactions, their cost and the motives to encourage pharmaceutical companies to use M & A strategy.
Keywords: pharmaceutical market, mergers and acquisitions, profitability, growth drivers.
Alexander V. Evstratov, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor. Volgograd branch of Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation; Victoria S. Ignatieva, a Master’s Degree student. -Volgograd State Technical University.
The article represents agglomeration processes in the Tomsk agglomeration in order to improve the coherence of the social and economic space. The authors analyze the basic elements of social and economic interaction between settlements of the agglomeration, as well as key development trends of agglomeration processes in its territory. The authors illustrate possibilities and barriers of their development, affecting the coherence of the social and economic space.
Keywords: agglomeration, agglomeration processes, coherence, social and economic space, Tomsk agglomeration.
Irina V. Voltchkova, Candidate of Economics, Associate professor; Julia V. Podoprigora, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor; Maria N. Danilova, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor; Evgeniya V. Ufimtseva, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor; Nickolay R. Shadeyko, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor; Aleksey A. Seliverstov, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor - Tomsk State Architectural University.
The article represents the stages of the product life cycle and their characteristics. The author conducts the mathematical and statistical analysis of the sales dynamics of electric motors at the stages of their life cycle. The author develops the models of the life cycle of electric motor trademarks and sets the laws of random distribution.
Keywords: product life cycle, modeling, dynamics, regression equation, distribution laws, mathematical and statistical parameters.
The authors consider the theoretical and methodological development aspects of the organic food market. It is shown that at the moment the organic food market in Russia is represented by two main types of products: 1) produced in Russia; 2) and purchased from abroad. In terms of financial and economic crisis and the worsening situation of foreign policy for Russia, as never before, it is important to have food self-sufficiency in general and organic products in particular. It was revealed that, despite the opinion of certain researchers about the absence of the organic food which is made in Russia, at the moment this national market is formed and it is under active development. The authors have conducted the applied research: they have calculated the potential size of the organic food market using the example of the Ural Federal District and the method of calculation “bottom- up." It is shown that from 2016 to 2020 it is expected to face a growth of the regional market by at least 22%.
Keywords: food market, organic food market, market conditions, import substitution, Ural Federal District, Sverdlovsk region, potential size of the market, method of calculation "bottom - up".
Galina V. Astratova, Doctor of Economics, Candidate of technical Sciences, Professor, Head of Economics of Housing, Utilities and Energy Department. - Ural State University of Economics, Yekaterinburg; Alexander N. Semin, Doctor of Economics, Professor, corresponding member of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Director of the Institute of World Economy, Head of Strategic and Production Management Department. - Ural State Mining University, Yekaterinburg; Olga A. Ruschitskaya, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Head of Management and Economics Department, director of the Institute of Economics, Finance and Management. - Ural State Agricultural University, Yekaterinburg.
The author considers specific examples of socially significant projects in the sports industry with the involvement of private investment and with the support of sports associations. The article identifies and characterizes the implementation features of sports projects under the PPP in the Republic of Belarus.
Keywords: public private partnership, PPP, sports industry, infrastructure projects.
The article represents the basic organizational and economic and methodological problems of price regulation on the regional electricity market, and proposes the assessment tool of management efficiency. The testing of cross-subsidization of the proposed tool will prove the system performance assessment indicators of tariff regulation and ways to improve the management of the regional energy-regulator.
Keywords: pricing, cross-subsidization, entropy.
The article represents a historical overview of the concept of “the employer brand”, analyzes its existing definition, the original definition of HR-brand, formulates its essential characteristics and the assessment methods of the company’s HR-brand.
Keywords: HR-brand, employer brand, essential characteristics of brand values, proposed staff benefits, key information message, strengths of the employer brand, point of the contact, competitiveness of HR-brand, competitiveness indicator of HR-brand, external and internal competitive differentiators of the employer brand.
The article represents a new application of Kendal and Smith’s concordance to assess the degree of multiple correlation sequences of chain annual growth rates of the main effectiveness indicators in the Russian society. The authors illustrate a meaningful interpretation of the specifics of rank chain growth rates and a choice of “a standard of rank sequences”, and determine the method to select rank sequences of changes in growth rates of performance indicators into their group similarity (closeness) in terms of rank fluctuations.
Keywords: concordance coefficient, performance indicators, growth rates, similarity of rank sequences.
The article discloses management problems to involve workers in the production process. The authors emphasize the basic conditions that must be created in organizations for its management, as well as the main challenges that hold up this process. The article analyzes the relationship of employee’s involvement, work enthusiasm, development and consequences of workaholizm.
Keywords: employees’ involvement, labor productivity, factors of employees’ involvement, work enthusiasm, dependence on work, workaholizm