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Peculiarities of competition among HEIS: institutional discrimination

The article gives prove to the idea that competitive relations in the market of higher education are far from being civilized, regulated, and protected from monopolization and dominance. The national educational law and subordinate legislation in the sphere of education aimed at regulating and stimulating educational relations are used as a means of unfair competition, make for monopolization of professional education markets. It all happens due to the fact that the legislator and educational authorities fail to realize the necessity for antimonopoly monitoring and regulation of this area. The author shows some of the norms and reveals their anticompetitive character.

Competition among heis: institutional discrimination

The article dwells on differences in approaches of Russian antimonopoly bodies and the Expert Educational Association to competition among HEIs. Emphasizing the change in the study paradigm of competitive relations in the sphere of education, the author reveals anticompetitive character of norms and institutions, examines main indicators for institutional discrimination of HEIs.

Gifts of incomplete equipment as violations of the antitrust law

This paper is an attempt of qualification the gift of incomplete equipment as violations of the Antitrust Law. The author tries to consider giving of incomplete medical equipment and fur¬ther selling of component materials such as unfair competition, and restraint of competition. This task was given from the discussion that took place at a meeting of the Expert Council on the application of antitrust laws, in terms of protection from unfair competition of the FAS, which is also briefly described by the author.

Gifts of incomplete equipment as violations of the antitrust law

This publication is a continuation of qualification the gift of incomplete equipment as violations of the Antitrust Law. The author tries to consider giving of incomplete medical equipment and further selling of component materials such as unfair competition, or as restraint of competition. This task was given from the discussion that took place at a meeting of the Expert Council on the application of antitrust laws, in terms of protection from unfair competition of the FAS, which is also briefly described by the author.

About competition of theories of competition

The goal of this work — to characterize the development of scientific discussion, happening on the pages of the «Modern competition journal», and try to reconcile the seemingly contradictory position of members of scientific debate, as well as to present the author's position on several key points of discussion.

Development of congress activity market in Russia (information and analytical material)

The presented material contains topical data on congress activity in Moscow, shows main factors contributing to the development of congress activity in Russia and hindering it, analyzes com¬petitive capacity of national professional congress organizers in the international MICE-industry market.

Discussion of professional-oriented approach to entrepreneurship

This paper is a report of scientific discussion devoted to the professional-oriented approach to business. In addition to a brief analysis and generalization of scientific debate, which occurred 19 April 2012, in MFPU «Synergy», this paper discloses a theoretical justification for the professionalization of entrepreneurship.

Competitive strategies of food retail networks: classification and empirical analysis

Theoretical and methodological aspects of application the concept of ”competitive ability” in scientific researches

Benchmarking in the system of firms competitive actions

Justice and competitiveness: in search of the conceptual relationship

Horizon of absorption as a key factor in the diffusion of innovations

The design challenges for Russian entrepreneurship education system

Multisided platforms research problematic

Digital platforms dominance abuse (in Google case in Russia)

Shaping Strategy and Competitive Dispositions with Multisided Platform

The current state of Russian entrepreneurship education

Multi-sided platforms and essential facilities doctrine

Network effect as a sign of dominating position of digital platform

Limits of market power of digital platforms

There are several equally important properties and factors that should be evaluated to decide on the market power and monopoly power of the digital platform.The article discusses examples of digital platforms - taxi aggregators and messengers, demonstrating various internal and external factors that are limiting the market power of digital platforms.First of all, the situation with taxi aggregators is considered, using the example of the industry leader - Uber - the platform leading in several countries stably brings only losses to investors. This example reveals the internal factors that limit market power.The following is an example of instant messengers and Twitter, which are faced with external restrictions on the market power of platforms.The listed internal and external factors limiting the market power of digital platforms is recommended to be investigated when analyzing and assessing the level of competition in the markets and deciding whether the digital platform occupies a dominant position in the industry market. Read more...

Technological giants on digital markets as a result of a regulator failure

The article discusses the main problems of antitrust regulation of multilateral digital platforms. The problems of defining the boundaries of product markets on which multilateral platforms operate, including the problems of analyzing competition in derivative markets, other stages of determining the dominant position of a digital platform and its market power are disclosed. In the context of the latest news related to the proposals of the Subcommittee of the US Congress on toughening antitrust regulation of digital giants (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple), the possibilities of using such proposals in the Russian practice of antitrust regulation are considered. The author identifies the methodological problems that arise in the context of strengthening the market power of digital platforms, and also reveals the author’s approach to solving these problems. Read more...

A value-based approach to online entrepreneurship education in college and undergraduate programs in Russia

The article reveals the features of teaching courses on entrepreneurship, in accordance with the regulatory and methodological support of the Russian educational system, where entrepreneurship is not recognized as a separate area of professional activity. The author offers a possible explanation for this situation, focusing on the principles of modeling vocational education programs. The article reveals the difference between management and entrepreneurship, as well as training programs for "Management" and "Entrepreneurship". The author recommends to approve "Entrepreneurship" as a separate and independent direction of professional training. The key approach to teacher behavior in the educational process is revealed in the article using the concept of value used in entrepreneurship. The teacher's value-based learning approach is to provide the learner with more value in the learning experience than the cost of the learning to the learner. This concept is the opposite of cost- cutting business tactics Separately, the article reveals the problems of education transformation associated with the development of the digital environment. There is a decrease in the value of knowledge and an increase in the value of skills and abilities. For the implementation of entrepreneurship teaching programs in the educational process, more attention should be paid to practical exercises. Author shares his own experience in teaching entrepreneurship courses for bachelor and college programs in the Russian Federation. Separate practical tips for organizing and conducting online classes will help teachers, who face the same types of tasks, that is, for example, teachers, who implement disciplines through online means in accordance with the regulatory and methodological support of the Russian educational system. Read more...

Big Data as a essential facilities in the antitrust regulation of digital markets

The article is devoted to the issue of applying the Essential Facilities Doctrine to big data for the purpose of antitrust regulation of digital markets. The concept of big data is revealed, which currently does not have a normative legal fixation in the legislation of the Russian Federation. The article identifies the difference between big data and regular data, between the organizational, managerial, economic and legal content of these phenomena of the digital age. Based on the analysis of scientific publications, law enforcement and judicial practice of antimonopoly agencies of foreign countries and Russia, the author systematizes the directions of using big data in competition in digital markets. The article also reveals the content of the doctrine of essential facilities in competition law. The author describes the key ideas of the scientific discussion on the application of the doctrine of essential facilities to big data. The article contains author’s suggestions and recommendations for the correct division of the complex of big data technology into competitive (AI) and infrastructure (data sets) components. If necessary, the doctrine of essential facilities can be extended to computing power, server data storage, data sets (in an unstructured form) of digital giants. The author believes that applying the doctrine of essential facilities to big data can eliminate the abuse of dominance by tech giants. But the application of the doctrine of essential facilities is not able to systematically change the state of affairs in digital markets. In order to remove the incentives of Internet giants to abuse dominance with the help of big data, it is necessary to separate from the Internet giants business units, that would exclusively provide non-discriminatory access to Big Data management services. And the competencies associated with the development and application of big data analytics (AI) technologies should be assigned to business units, that would compete in derivative digital markets independently. Read more...

Moving Away from Consumer Welfare in the Antitrust of Digital Platforms

This article aims to characterize the new theoretical and methodological reversal observed today in the American antitrust regulation of digital platforms. To this end, the author retrospectively describes the history of the development of the theory and methodology of antitrust regulation in the United States. The article describes the ideas of economic structuralism of the “Harvard school”. Further, the author reveals the theoretical and methodological revolution associated with the theory of prices; describes the fundamental differences between the “Harvard” and “Chicago” schools in terms of assessing the relationship between market structure and the intensity of competition. The article reveals the formation of the doctrine of consumer welfare as the dominant one in antitrust regulation. The consequences of the application of the doctrine of consumer welfare in antitrust regulation are described: the narrowness of ideas about barriers to entry, public welfare; breadth of understanding of competitive forces; ignoring the structural and sectoral characteristics of competition; absolutization of indicators of consumer prices and output volumes. The author gives a negative assessment of the effectiveness of the application of the doctrine of consumer welfare in the antitrust regulation of digital platforms. The paper explains how the focus on consumer welfare has been used by digital platforms to generate gigantic market power. In this context, a criticism of the ideas of the Chicago School in relation to digital markets is presented. Reanimation of ideas and methods of economic structuralism in decision-making within the framework of antimonopoly regulation of monopolistic activities of digital platforms is argued. Read more...

Theoretical and Methodological Content of the Concept “Competitive Advantage”

The purpose of this article is to compare certain theoretical concepts that are developing today in the field of competitive management: the strategic architecture (by V. Kvint) and constructive theory of competition (by Yu. Rubin) with the concept of competitive advantage (by M. Porter). As part of the scientific discussion, the authors answer questions about the place of competitive advantage in the strategic management system, the essence of competitive advantage, and the sustainability of competitive advantage. To do this, we review and analyze the systems of views of the above scientists in the cited sources. Different approaches to understanding and using the term “competitive advantage” are considered in the work as different research programs, the contradiction of which to each other does not require the rejection of an older concept. At its core, competitive advantage is understood as the content of a strategic decision, a strategic task, a system for its implementation, and its manifestation in the results of competitive activity. Two different directions of competitive advantage management are distinguished in the work: creation/ formation (positive side) and protection / providing sustainability (negative side) of competitive advantage. Value chain (M. Porter) and transient advantage (R. McGrath) tools can be called as the positive side of competitive advantage. The negative side of competitive advantage can be considered in certain types of economic moats. The ideas of economic moat and transient advantage respond differently to the question of sustainability of competitive advantage. The paper substantiates the conclusion that both in the theory of strategic architecture (Kvint) and in the constructive theory of competition (Rubin), the term “competitive advantage” is used in completely different meanings, which are complex interpretations of the original meaning. Read more...

On the Methodological Flaws in the Scientific Study of the Industrial Internet of Things

This work is debatable and is devoted to revealing the methodological flaws of scientific research, often observed in Russian-language scientific periodicals. With the conclusion of an effective contract, the teaching staff of universities is artificially stimulated to scientific and publishing activities, which increases the relevance of the study of mental actions performed by young scientists to obtain new scientific knowledge. In this context, the question arises as to whether the researcher obtained new scientific knowledge as a result of committed methodological errors, committed research negligence. Using the example of a single article devoted to the application of a systematic approach to the Industrial Internet of Things, the author highlights a number of methodological flaws and reveals the importance of the depth of the literature review as a key characteristic of the accumulation of basic knowledge. The author also emphasizes the importance of a clear definition of the subject and object of the study, and recommends describing the research methodology not only in a single paragraph, but more specifically in relation to each stage and section of the study. In order to reveal the methodological flaws of scientific research, the author has to return to the definition of scientific methodology, system analysis and the industrial Internet of things. Using the example of a specific work, the author emphasizes the need for a strict and clear application of general scientific research methods, as well as the importance of a depth review of the literature, which should not reflect the subjective ignorance of the scientist. The author also emphasizes the danger of changing the direction of scientific research regarding the specialty of higher education of a young scientist, which can lead to confusion of subjective and objective ignorance due to a superficial review of the literature. Read more...

Possibilities of Streamlining Competitive Interaction in the Light of A. A. Bogdanov's "Tectology"

The paper considers the general doctrine of organization – A. Bogdanov’s Tectology from the standpoint of modern theories of management, entrepreneurship and competition. A. Bogdanov’s views on entrepreneurship, competition, and the source of economic initiative are studied. The author of the article tries to answer the question of how A. Bogdanov treated organizational principles in market processes, transactional relations between economic entities. The author tries to understand exactly how A. Bogdanov understood entrepreneurship and competition. For these purposes, a contextual and formal-logical content analysis of the text of A. Bogdanov’s Tectology was carried out on the key terms “entrepreneurship”, “competition”, “initiative”. The views of A. Bogdanov are compared with the modern views of representatives of the neo-Austrian economic school, the positions of scientists in the field of the theory of entrepreneurship and competition. The author comes to the conclusion that A. Bogdanov, following K. Marx, did not distinguish between the socio-economic roles and statuses of an entrepreneur and business owners, generalizing them into a single class – the bourgeoisie. The figure of an entrepreneur (individual, serial, intracompany, social) carries a threat to the very idea of the class organization of society, since an entrepreneur can belong to any class: the bourgeoisie, the peasantry, the technical intelligentsia, or the proletariat. A. Bogdanov refers the entrepreneur to the bourgeoisie, the ruling class from which organizational activity passes to the lower classes. The author of the article comes to interesting conclusions when analyzing the use of the term “competition” by A. Bogdanov. In our opinion, A. Bogdanov generally denied the term “competition” in the semantic core of the concept, arguing that this term is used in different, unrelated senses in different industries and spheres of human activity. Read more...

Conditions of the World LNG Market under the Sanctions

The article reveals aspects of the situation on the global LNG market in the context of sanctions pressure on Russian LNG enterprises, and suggests ways for Russian LNG enterprises to adapt to these conditions. The conditions of sanctions pressure on Russian LNG enterprises are described and the impact of sanctions on the LNG industry is revealed. The conducted research is based on statistical data from Russian and foreign sources. Aspects of the global LNG market environment include: an increase in the scale of LNG production in the world, the use of innovative gas liquefaction technologies, the development of a system for organizing and managing the transportation of liquefied gas, an increase in the number of states purchasing LNG for their needs, changes in the volume of LNG production and consumption in the world. The analysis presented in the article of the prospects and directions of development of this market in the future, as well as the main economic and technical factors influencing its functioning, and its conditions over the past five years have shown that this market is actively developing. The authors come to the conclusion: Russian LNG exporting enterprises have managed to adapt to the current competitive market conditions of global LNG trade, diversify their capacities and transport logistics, and have also significantly expanded the possibilities of transporting LNG along the Northern Sea Route. Read more...