Journal archive
The issues of theory |
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Many attempts have been made to define the term unfair competition. They all failed. According to
the author, competition in the market economy is unfair in any case.
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The analysis of the rational choice systemic function theory conducted by one of the article authors
shows that the best (optimal) balanced state of the market economy are not correlated with the
maximum figures related to the economy material elements. What is more, as a rule, if all the production
functions and usefulness functions are used to the maximum, the result is far from optimal
in the market economy situation in general.
The theory analysis shows that the perfect competition has its intrinsical serious systemic restrictions.
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Competitive Russia |
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Modern Russia can be proud of the relative economic, financial, and social stability. It has achieved the stability for the first time in decades. But the economic situation in the country is still complex despite the economic growth Russia has demonstrated during the recent years. Many internal and external destructive factors contribute to the complexity of the country development process.
According to the article authors, strategic errors are not accidental; what is more, the error multiplication is part of a certain development pattern. The pattern is hardly connected with the social and economic situation. It has much to do with, first of all, the community attitudes pattern, the historic tradition and the bureaucratic attitudes found in all the social strata.
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Sport as a competitive environment |
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A professional sport event today is a service that is rendered on a prepayment basis. This means the sports competition should be profitable for the stakeholders of the economic process and should become a true show that brings new and valuable information to a spectator. According to the author, the definition is a comprehensive reflection of the way the stakeholders interact when doing business within the industry. The market environment makes them find new competitive ways to win the spectators' attention.
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According some estimates, the demand for the fitness-related services has grown substantially during the past 5 to 6 years in this country. The consumer culture has changed. A healthy life style and wellness are now trendy.
However, there are 2 main factors that hamper the development of the many businessmen's interest in investing into fitness. Firstly, there is a lack of appropriate premises for lease and, according to the businessmen, the lease payments are too high. Secondly, the state bodies do not support sports and fitness industry systemically although it is clearly appropriate to make the fitness-re¬lated services accessible to the wide public.
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Modern sports are gradually becoming a business sector. Olympic Games, tournaments and championships are not just sporting events and spectacular shows, they are part of a business, to some extent. Sports management companies' staff members and volunteers who work there are engaged in solving such problems as arranging the sportsmen and their luggage transportation and hotel accommodation and servicing, premises leasing, stadiums checks to make them ready for use, making contacts with the media, state bodies and sponsors' representatives, ticket sales, placing the show advertisements, and other problems.
The demand for qualified sports managers now is extremely high. The Russian universities began training the sports managers not long ago. The article author speaks about the professional competences a sports manager should have, about the Russian and international sports manager training best practices and about the direct correlation between the quality of managers' training and the sports teams' competitiveness level.
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Enterprise competitiveness factors |
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Despite the fact that the term complex appliance has been used for a long period of time, the problems associated with the maintenance and information support of such goods have become topical recently. The services related to goods selling and use become the main factor determining the sellers' competitiveness level, and this determination becomes clear when you assess a various complex appliances seller's practices. There is an old notion that declares that the sales sector is a sector which is the industry subordinate that plays a second fiddle to it. The notion is becoming the thing of the past.
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The partners' operations contribute sufficiently to a business operational efficiency increase in stable economies. The businesses that participate in any production or a service rendering process are interested in their partners' using the newest technology, management practices, efficiently operating business structure building, etc. as one partner's operational efficiency increase will contribute to the others' competitiveness level increase. Therefore it is not enough to manage the knowledge of a «singled out» business in order to be able to use the intellectual potential accumulated to the full. It is appropriate to create unions or partnerships in order to share the knowledge and databases in order to collectively create and use the intellectual resource available.
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Labor market and competitiveness |
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Personnel competitiveness level identification, maintenance and increase are topical issues for any manager operating in the market economy. The individual’s high competitiveness level is a prerequisite for holding a good position and becoming a socially protected person. The company personnel high competitiveness level is a prerequisite for achieving the business strategic goals and maintaining a high business position in the competition. The personnel competitiveness level in interconnected with the national economy competitiveness level on the macro-level. It is a manifestation of the economic resource sufficient volume and its good and efficient use.
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The article is focused on the labor market segment that meets the small businesses’ needs. The
author examines the following: the small businesses’ macroeconomic functions; the market segment
operation specifics, including the mechanisms used by the central and regional regulatory
bodies and the modern Russian labor market segment development story.
The article will be of interest to the scholars, transitional period economy HR experts, and the businessmen
who would like to get professional advice on the HR work efficiency increase.
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As it is known, personnel evaluation and assessment is a process where the office staff members’
work efficiency is examined. The research findings are used when the managerial decisions are
made in the future. That is why it is so important to use an objective work efficiency assessment
methodology that ensures accurate calculations. According to the author, such a universally accepted
and scientifically proved methodology is non-existent. The methodology is useful for the
economy as, on the one hand, there is a direct correlation between the work efficiency and the
labor hours use efficiency, and, on the other hand, the opportunities for the appropriate use of the
personnel potential should be created and the businesses’ staff list structure should be optimized.
The author describes a methodology that gives the business leaders an opportunity to comprehensively
examine the key parameters of labor hours use in different business departments during
a short period of time and identify the workload figures and the reasons for the inefficient use of
labor hours.
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Consult a specialist |
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As it is known, the accounts payable is a high liquidity asset. But the large amounts of the bad
debts bring about the substantial business expenses increase, actual profit and circulating assets
liquidity decrease and in the end they undermine the general financial stability of a business. Until
recently, the debts «zeroing» (including the 100 % prepayment) has been regarded as the one and
only means to manage the bad debts. In the situation when the competition is becoming increasingly fierce, if you take such a move, it will bring about the substantial sales volume decrease and the business’ market segment reduction. The article focuses on the practical aspects of dealing with the accounts payable, i. e. their
inclusion into the business accounting schemes and the way they influence the business financial
situation changes.
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