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In this article investigated and analyzed competitive environment and level of competition Russian telecommunications branch. Providing analysis and assessment competitive forces operating in branch according to M. Porter.

In this article the processes of air transport hubs formation and the ways of obtaining their competitiveness on different levels, depending on competition scale in the industry, are elaborated. Conception of competitive hub’s formation on the base of Moscow air transport center is presented on macrolevel of competition and the stages of it’s realization are defined and elaborated. The structure of competitive advantages, obtaining on mezolevel of competition as a result of air transport hub foundation as horizontally integrated business system are defined and presented, the possible methods of it’s achievement by Russian air transport industry related companies are recommended by author.

The article discusses the necessity for the development of consulting activities of private universities as one of their areas to improve their competitiveness. The paper formulates general requirements for the organization of this activity of the university, including the financial aspect of it.

The author comes to the important conclusion, namely, that the international market of functional foods and nutraceuticals is a new growing segment of the global food market, but there is not uniformity in the understanding of market structure and volume. Another fundamental conclusion that follows from the study diagnosed the problems of development, is the inconsistencies of terminology concepts used by different communities of scholars. The paper identified the major geographic points of growth of the market, as well as its most promising points, and the circle of market participants, directly or indirectly interested groups in its field of action.

The article deals with the possibility of accounting of consumer preferences in educational services in the estimation of competitiveness of quality in higher education. The technique of carrying out of expert poll is suggested and approved, the degree of coordination of expert opinions is defined. Basing on the received data it is calculated weight-coefficients of indicators of competitiveness of quality of higher education.

The article deals with the system of public procurement, standards and technology audit as tools to enhance efficiency of the national economy on the basis of selection of the most competitive suppliers of goods and services. Harmonization of national standards and public procurement regime with WTO rules increases competition in the domestic market, that has been using for a very long time the «greenhouse» regime of protectionism. This mainly concerns civil proceedings.

The article describes the main aspects of functioning the small enterprises in various types of markets. Most small enterprises conduct their activity in the markets of perfect and monopolistic competition. As the classifier indicators to determine the type of market are: the type of economic activity, on which specialize enterprises and quantity of their employees.

This article discusses current approaches to the development of effective mechanisms for constructing an optimal strategy of credit organization. Analysis of different methods to assess the competitiveness strategy for the credit organization can identify those that, if necessary in the short term provide understanding of its position in the market, able to provide more specific information about the competitiveness of many regional banks, with high accuracy evaluation of competitive advantage.

The article deals with Michael Porter`s concept of competitive strategies. All competitive strategies are considered in application to modern business practice.

The article notes that the competition can be viewed as a mechanism of self-regulation, and as an stimulus for economic development and improve the economic efficiency of the banking system. Analysis of existing approaches to competition allows to determine the bank’s competitive position in the market, identify its strengths and weaknesses, as well as to formalize the classification features of the regional retail bank, to show its system role in the banking market.

In article management problems by long-term competitiveness of enterprise structures in construction are considered, sources of minimization of costs and the direction of differentiation of the construction organizations are systematized, main issues of formation of competitive strategy are shined. Authors offer classification of variables of segmentation of market of the building services, being a basis of working out of strategy of market focusing.

The article covers the essence of corporate time management and justifies its influence on company competitiveness. The author discusses the way of integrating time management into a system of a company’s corporate culture and top managers’ degree of participation in this process. Technology of implanting within a company a corporate value of «time saving» with the help of management settings, corporate regulations and organizational rituals is examined.

The development of Internet retailing implies the presence of competing interests among the participants of the supply chain and requires regulation of vertical restraints. As government regulation of the vertical restraints due to their possible anticompetitive effects, then the change in the nature of competition requires a review of applicable regulations, which were adopted on June 1, 2010 in the EU. The new rules of regulation on the vertical restraints will remain in place until 2022.

In this article expounded activity ways rise in the basis on Business Development Center, which encourage enterprise as an important element of social-economical system. The suggestions are given for using perspective interaction ways of small producing enterprising with big business as the major factor of development of the regional social-economic system. The authoress pays attention to the fact that smаll business can be supported by large enterprisers, which would be able to supply it for output arrange and competitive production producing.

The article explores the сompetitive tax advantages of leasing compared with a loan on the basis of identifying the costs arising from these models of financing. The the сompetitive advantage is analyzed by determining the indicator of the present value. There are the flow cash schemes of two types of financing on the basis of which we can do a conclusion that the financing with the use of leasing is more «expensive», but more effective and profitable. This becomes possible by reducing the taxable base for the income tax in the amount of leasing payments.

In today’s economy sponsorship investment in the sport growing in popularity. To date, a similar line of business is not only one of the tools of marketing and PR, which allows the sponsor company to improve its popularity and to attract large audiences to his product and get the fame, but also a full-fledged tool for increasing the profit of the company and improve its competitiveness.

The purpose of the venture operator to create the most comfortable and open environment in the introduction of high-tech developments in the industry. And to increase the scope of innovation, moving from individual projects to large-scale innovative entrepreneurship. To do this, to simplify the process for an innovative company access to finance, information and resource tools.