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Strategy and tactics |
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Nowadays there are all global transnational corporations (representative office, subsidiary, af¬filiate business unit) in this or that legal form present in Russia's economy, which are leaders in terms of the foreign investment volume and main players on the global market. As a rule, they employ two main strategies, i. e. increase in assets through their acquisition on country market and use of owned assets by conquering the market, increasing efficiency, getting access to the resources.
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Before the businesses choose to use a set of executive measures, a number of prompt steps or make a set of certain arrangements, the businesses' competitive behavior model is shaped at the strategic level where a strategy/set of strategies are formed that become a basis of the business strategic behavior. As M. Porter notes, the leadership and success are based upon the business' ability to consistently, on a day-to-day basis, implement a chosen strategy. Competent behavior of the competitive market players is always based on the professional businesses' strict dividing the behavior levels and avoiding the overlaps when participating in the competition.
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The issues of theory |
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Many generations' experience shows that the competition is almost as powerful as the atomic en¬ergy. It could be used for the good cause if there are some management mechanisms in place, and for the bad cause, if we allow it to develop chaotically and be used as a tool by the social groups which totally lack the social ethics awareness.
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Until recently researchers of modern economics did not pay enough attention to knowledge econ¬omy disregarding the significance of knowledge as an economic category.
In what way does knowledge economy differ from classical standard economy? Its revolutionary character lies in the fact that not only technologies but also the whole mechanism of knowledge production began to be included into economy, i.e., knowledge economy implies not only produc¬tion economy, but also universities, fundamental science, communication system, patent system, applied science, research and development, i.e., the whole integrated complex.
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Competitive Russia |
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Nowadays both state and independent experts agree that the tempo of Russia's economic growth is mainly due to high global prices and increase in the export amount of raw materials. As can be learnt from the global experience the role of supplier of raw materials for the global economy leads to negative consequences, and the urgent necessity arises to consolidate the efforts of the state and the representatives of Russia's business community aimed at working out measures, which would ensure stable growth of Russia's economy and improvement of its competitiveness.
The report presented by A. Shokhin at the first analytical conference «Competition: Strategy, Tactics, Models, Training» touched upon the issue of revitalizing competitiveness of Russia's econo¬my, the factors hampering this process, the importance of a constructive dialogue between the business community and the state.
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Despite the seemingly good macroeconomic indicators, the Russian economic development has been hampered recently by the serious barriers created by the economic policy-makers. The competitiveness level of the Russian economy is still going in downswing. One of the reasons for the plunging is the fact that the excess profits gained from the natural resources exports were hardly ever used to modernize the economy.
Our magazine publishes some fragments from a report made by S. Glazyev, corresponding mem¬ber of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the National Development Institute. The report was made at the Russian Social and Economic Development Strategy in the Context of Globalization workshop held to mark the 10th anniversary of the National Development Institute which is part of the Social Sciences Directorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Discussion |
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Please find below a short comment from me that I send to the readers.
It all began when some people at an economic theory conference asked me to tell them about the status quo in the modern competition in politics. The question is nothing new and the reasons why it is asked are understandable enough. But given the venue where it was asked, it was naturally ex¬tended and finally looked like: "If we take the concepts of healthy business competition and healthy competition in politics, can we establish a link between the two?' Frankly, I never thought about that. The reason for that is the fact that the legal regulation of the antimonopoly measures and the political pluralism policies regulation are the subject matters of two quite different specializations in the legal profession. Nevertheless, I made a mental note about the problem identified to me, and I started making real notes on paper on matters related to the theme. Then it suddenly turned out the idea to discuss the problem was in the air and the modern economic conditions really "produced" the question.
Can we put an equality mark between the competition in politics and business competition? Is it true that political monopolies inevitably bring about more unhealthy competitive business practices? The questions seem to be as pressing as the usual Russian questions "Who is to blame?" and "What should be done?" and the question of who would rule the country in the future. I understand that the problem cannot be examined from the point of view of a legal professional only as the prob¬lem is only partially legal. That is why I suggest a multidisciplinary discussion should be opened. As a specialist in the constitutional law that examines the legal regulation of the state power, I shall try and examine the problem from a legal specialist's point of view.
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In real life, politics and economics are so inextricably intertwined that only a scholar can make a division between the two. Everything (or almost everything) that is happening in the social life "bears a stamp" of economic relations and political relations. Everything (or almost everything) that is happening is somehow based upon the economic and political relations.
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Competition rules |
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The international capital flow growth contributes to the international tax rate competition activation. Different countries have to fight for the bigger cash-flows and attract foreign investment and the income of the major taxpayers. At the same time the competition in this area is special as there are some barriers between the domestic and international markets to be broken and the rules and regulations in the tax sphere need to be harmonized.
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The adoption of the WTO pattern-based unified international trading rules and policies did not elimi¬nate the international trade conflicts. The main subject matter of the trade conflicts is the so called mala fide competition. The term is understood to mean primarily the price dumping performed by the exporters. From the point of view of the market economy, the measures confronting the dumping are a rather controversial matter. On the one hand, price dumping is seen as a manifestation of the mala fide competition in the international trade sphere, and the WTO policies permit the use of the anti-dumping measures. On the other hand, the very anti-dumping measures often become a masked tool used by the protectionist policy champions in order to protect the national economy from the competing importers.
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FAS: specialist advice |
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The international capital flow growth contributes to the international tax rate competition activation. Different countries have to fight for the bigger cash-flows and attract foreign investment and the income of the major taxpayers. At the same time the competition in this area is special as there are some barriers between the domestic and international markets to be broken and the rules and regulations in the tax sphere need to be harmonized.
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