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The theory of competition |
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The agents with the similar purposes of lobbying are interested in coordination of their lobbying
efforts. Nevertheless, the free rider problem often takes place. In the article the problem of the free
rider is illustrated on the example of lobbying for protection by the domestic oligopolists acting as
Cournot rivals. It is shown that in the equilibrium with voluntary contribution only firms with smallest
marginal costs or greatest marginal costs contribute. As a result, total lobbying expenditure is less
than optimum level defined as total domestic oligopolists profit maximization problem solution.
Total lobbying expenditures is optimal under share equilibrium and Groves-Clarke mechanism.
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This article continues the series of papers that reveal the foundations of the theory of behavioral
competition by companies in the market. The author describes the aims and objectives of application
of tactical tricks in information space of competition, particularly in image-building. Tactical
tricks are implemented by firms as part of the tactical combinational operations through methods of
information dissemination and management of attention of competitive environment participants.
From all variety of tactical tricks the author identifies and describes in details three types of tactical
tricks: tactical ploys — demonstration of behavioral manners via realization of competitive actions,
filling external atributs of business with attractive images, ways to make images more public
or refrain from publicity; tactical puzzles — creating and disseminating illusions, manipulating by
stereotypical images, competitive advantages simulations; tactical traps — tactical feints, baits
and bluff.
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Competitiveness of business |
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Leadership makes key position in nowadays effective business processes and achieving high results
of any project. To setup organization management accurately, it is necessary to take into account
personal properties of the ones WHO manage, WHO is being managed, WHICH resources
are used to meet planned goals. The article, in particular, has analysis of difficulties which appear
due to necessary integration into innovative business so-called Y generation, which differs
noticeably from previous generations, their personal preferences. An hypothesis made that hidden
storage of leadership potential of a manager lays in analysis of psychological types of both
leader himself and team participants. Productivity of this approach described using P. Hersey’s
and K. Blancherd’s model of situational leadership and A. U. Afanasiev’s typology of personality.
Carried research showed how leader’s understanding of his personal psychotype helps for understanding
potentials and problems during application of different leadership styles. Article additionally
describes example of improving communication quality and productivity in solving assigned
tasks while manager takes into account personnel psychotypes, including Y generation ones.
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The article analyzes the impact on the personnel security market positions of the organization
that operates in a highly competitive environment. This environment requires extensive use of
the market against rivals of methods, including, and unfair competition. Some of them are aimed
directly at competing organization staff and implemented in the form of either direct solicitation of
employees in key positions or to induce them to cheat the trust of the employer. Another group of
personnel security threats linked to the initiative (not a result of the impact of competitors) manifestations
of disloyal attitude of employees to their employer. It is considered the most likely threats
to information and property safety of the modern organization by disloyal employees. The main
threat to its long-term competitive position determined by the threat of loss of business reputation
in the eyes of customers and business partners — due to willful disclosure of confidential information,
the mystery client component. No less dangerous from the standpoint of the existing realities
of the domestic market, the threat of a compromise of a particular organization as a law-abiding
business entity in the eyes of the fiscal, law enforcement and supervisory bodies of the state
have received relevant information from employees seeking revenge on his employer for the real
and imaginary wrongs. For business entities, occupying leading positions in the markets served,
particularly those working in innovation-driven industries represent a very serious threat to the disclosure
of information by employees that constitutes a trade secret. Threats property safety in the
article attributed the theft of money and material assets of the organization carried out in person or
with the direct participation of its employees, intentional damage to property, as well as corruption
of officials and their complicity in the raider seizure of property or business in general. Based on
the results of the review, formulated and argued for the competitive advantages that get business
entities to pay due attention to the prevention and prompt suppression of threats on staffing direction of the authorized activities. The first of these advantages is the acquisition of a high business
reputation in the markets served by the guaranteed customers, and the parterre storing information
constituting client confidentiality. The second advantage of the absence of conflict acts with fiscal,
law enforcement and supervisory authorities of the State and to prevent the conflicts arising from
the administrative, economic and other sanctions (up to the revocation of the license to carry out
the relevant business activities). A third advantage is determined by the improvement of existing
or maintain a leading position in the markets served, provides effective prevention of leakage of
confidential information constitutes a trade secret. A fourth advantage is to minimize the market
and direct financial losses in the process of production and financial activities of the organization,
which was caused by the direct theft of cash and highly liquid tangible assets own employees,
destruction or damage of various property complexes, corruption of officials in the form of transactions,
obviously unfavorable for employer. Finally, another important competitive advantage,
discussed in the article serves the preservation of high quality, hence the high competitiveness of
the human capital of your organization employer. It ensures effective prevention of this prevalent
in today’s labor market as the threat of poaching competitors or professional hedhanterami most
valuable employees — the representatives of the personnel of the elite organization. In the final
part of the article identifies the major methodological requirements for corporate management of
human security. These requirements are addressed to the owners and top management of the organization,
its staff work, managers of linear divisions. In particular, the necessity to ensure the two
main prerequisites for a high loyalty staff — namely, the creation of the subjects of the domestic
professional enterprise organizational, economic, social and psychological conditions that ensure
the loyalty of the staff, and they use a variety of application HR-technologies aimed at maintaining
the labor Corporate Relations team spirit.
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Correct interrelationship between organizational structure and operating conditions is important
competitiveness aspect of modern organizations. Equally important is the ability to implement
effective organizational change. The article investigates the procedure for the analysis of organizational
configurations. The basis of this procedure is investigation of the actual and perspective
coordination profiles of the organization. The object of study is static and dynamic state of organizational
configuration. The specific subject of the research is the dynamic of the «coordination
profile», as a totality of the basic coordination mechanisms (by H. Mintzberg). The hypothesis of
the study is that the characteristics of the coordination profile can influence the nature of organizational
relationships and the efficiency of the organizational structure in certain conditions. One of
the objectives of the article is to test the validity of the assumption about the dominance of «standardization
of skills» in the coordination profile of the professional organization — University. The
article includes: a) the analysis of the actual coordination profile and characteristics of the current
organizational configuration; b) the analysis of the prospective transformation of the coordination
profile of the organization.
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Entrepreneurship theory |
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Social entrepreneurship was identified as a specific economic activity and a subject which is
needed to be studied not long ago — in the 80‑th of the XX century. And now the study programs
of social entrepreneurship exist in USA, Europe, Asia in the universities and in other organizations.
These are programs of higher education and of other kinds. This article deals with the questions,
what are the goals of such programs, what methods of studying are used in the frames of such
programs, where the knowledge of social entrepreneurship can be used. All this data seemed to
be interesting to the Russian readers as in Russia the entrepreneurship education in common and
the social entrepreneurship education in particular are just at the beginning.
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Antitrust regulation |
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This article is motivated by a growing interest in the problem of merger control quality assessment.
Remedies are one of the instruments of merger control and have a significant influence on the
results of it. This paper aims to build and empirically evaluate a discrete choice model of merger
remedies implementation in Russian merger control. The database consists of 502 merger cases
accepted by the Russian antimonopoly agency between 2010 and 2012. We analyse the agency’s
decisions to find which characteristics of merging firms and markets lead the Federal Antimonopoly
Service of the Russian Federation to decide whether to allow conditional acceptance. We
find that variables related to high market power such as high market share and significant entry
barriers lead more frequently result in a remedy outcome. Such industries as the coal mining and
chemical industry positively affect the probability of a remedy implementation. At the same time we
do not find significant effects of such high-concentrated industries as energy and gas. In addition,
the results also demonstrate that if one of the 5 giant firms take part in a merger, it has a positive
effect on the probability of the remedy decisions. Our study did not detect the influence of the firmbuyer’s
countries on using remedies.
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