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Rostik Group is a diversified company, which includes Rosinter Restaurants Holding (full-service casual-dining chain restaurants: IL Patio, Planet Sushi, American Bar & Grill, Sibirskaya Korona, T. G. I. Friday's, and 1-2-3 Cafe'), Karlson Tourism (a travel agency), CorpEstate (real estate and logistics), Plenia (health and wellness hypermarkets). Rostik Group is also a partner in a strategic alliance «Rostik-KFC» with international restaurant companyYum! Brands. Main focus of the interview focused in the Russian food services market, where Rostik Group has more succeeded, namely, in fastfood segment and domestic restaurants segment.

The researching of this question is done under the process approach, which explains the activity of the junction and it's companies in the context of business process. Based on the results done, author comes to the conclusion, that today the necessity to consider the sea transport junction as an institute of partner relationships, regulating process activity through the cooperation between companies is actualized. It will raise as junction's as it's companies competitive¬ness due to personification the relations with service buyers as well as synergetic effect from inter companies interaction.

The author analyzed the problem of developing and implementing strategies to improve the com¬petitiveness of the organization. Attention is focused on legal support, standardization and meth¬odological support, and also on resource and information support for developing and implementing this strategy. The author dwells on CALS — Information Technology of integration of all product life cycle processes. The author describes in detail the mechanism for implementing a strategy to improve the competitive¬ness of the organization, including its structure, principles and methods of organization processes to implement the strategy, in addition, The author considers control, auditing and management strategy.

Competition and entrepreneurship are among the most important questions in economics. Analysis of competition in terms of influence on her ethno-confessional aspect seems to be one of the most promising and topical areas, whose foundations were laid by the classical authors, for example, such as Max Weber. This article explores the scientific basis of analysis of ideas about competition in the ethnic and religious concepts of entrepreneurship, as well as models of economic behavior in the framework of religious concepts.

The article deals with the nature and content of the entrepreneurial spirit of capitalism, and its influ¬ence on the formation and development of the capitalist system of XX-XXI centuries. The author, relying on the work of Max Weber, reveals the religious, educational, social and genetic back¬ground of phenomena of entrepreneurship and competition, and also explains how the Spirit of Capi¬talism connects and harmonizes opposed economic interests of the subjects of the capitalist system. The paper presents an attempt to combine Weber's theory of capitalist spirit with a basis of Marx's economic doctrine.

The article offers a method of assessing the competitiveness of enterprises, taking into account the resource using efficiency and fully reflects the entrepreneurial activity of its leadership. There is a justi¬fication of expediency of practical application of methods for determining the effectiveness of market¬ing activities of enterprises, allowing to take account of many factors that affect their incomes.

Innovation in the investment sector is fundamentally one of the most complexed forms of entrepre¬neurship. In a modern economy in order to gain a competitive advantage in a particular market seg¬ment, you must correctly implement an innovative project which is not achieved without investment in it. To understand how to do this, we must analyze the features of an innovative approach to investing. This article describes the process of investment in innovation, which with a thorough analysis can further help to implement innovative project.

One of the methods for the manufacturing enterprise competitive advantages receiving is cost saving. Possibility for the enterprise to reduce its costs is in many respects defined by relations construc¬tion with suppliers. The pros and cons of the decentralized and centralized models of purchase process are estimated in the article. Some measures concerning the reduction of negative factors influence and management optimization are offered here. Such measures are directed on efficiency and transparency increasing of purchasing activity that finally promotes growth of the enterprise competitiveness.

The article presents guidelines for the integrated assessment of the competitiveness of a construction company. The author's classification of factors of competitiveness of a construction company and sets out the methodology for calculating them. Found the importance of factors of competitiveness with the help of expert assessments. Developed an integral factor of competitiveness of construction enterprises.

In article the basic features of development of competitive relations in sphere of the average gen¬eral education are investigated. Competition directions what, according to the author, are rivalry of educational institutions for budgetary financing, for the off-budget means received from rendering of additional paid educational services, for the public status and, as consequence, additional financ¬ing at the expense of means of welfare funds and sponsors are concretized; rivalry in the teacher's environment; rivalry of consumers of educational services for «a place at the best school» in the conditions of absence of deficiency of places in educational institutions.

The article deals with the concept of competition. The classification of competition in education. Discusses the types of competition. Discusses the Trojan horse training, which is described in the papers, A. N. Poddyakova. Presented the study of contemporary authors.

The article proposes to use for universities the term «unfair competitive behavior» to refer a number of strategies that form the local relative competitive advantage by reducing costs for ensure the quality of education, by restrictions on competition in local educational markets, and otherwise directing the universities to ignore the social and educational functions.