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The Russian legal practitioners use different approaches when officially defining the unlawful business practices. There also are discrepancies concerning the definition of what the right punish¬ment for the economic crimes should be. The author of the work offers his own definition of what business activity is. He opts for the using the rule of contraries here as the Russian Criminal Code includes a definition of unlawful business practices.
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The concept of business surveillance was invented long ago but the practical implementation process began in the mid-90-s only. Like many other innovations and fresh business ideas, the concept was treated with skepticism and much time passed before the idea was widely accepted by the business community. The very surveillance system developed slowly. It has made a breakthrough only recently. In order to become competitive, the Russian economy should become part of the above processes.
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Internal consolidation processes in the Russian banking sector have become increasingly active in the last few years. It is possible to say now that in fact the number of players on the banking services market is much less than the total number of currently operating credit institutions. Unlike the other banking services markets, the Russian market is characterized by the low number of foreign market players.
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The businesses operating in the developed market economies sometimes find themselves in a critical situation. The crisis could be the consequence of the fact that the company does not meet the market demand in terms of its size or management type choice. The business owners in this case could either refuse to keep operating in a certain market sector or reinforce their positions by purchasing other company's capital or by purchasing the competitor's company or by purchasing a company that produces the "lacking" product. The author of the article analyzes the M&A market in the Central and Eastern European countries and Russia. He shows the market development trends and identifies the main sectors where the M&A processes are most active. He also shows the trans-border transactions case studies. The author identifies the M&A-promoting investment-related bank services, analyzes the reasons why the services are in such a demand, shows the recent develop¬ment trends in the M&A Russian market and the role the banks play in the development.
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Russia has been one of the world leaders in the M&A market development for a few years. The number of domestic and international M&A agreements concluded in Russia is constantly growing. The «SME» players become proactive. They consolidate their small assets in certain economic spheres. The Western (first of all — European) companies show their interest in coming to the Russian market. This is why we think the research into the Russian M&A market best practices is needed. The Russian market comparative analysis has been made when the parallels were made between Russia and (mostly) the Central and Eastern European countries. The comparisons between the Russian market and the Western European markets are rare. Our comparison of the M&A markets in Russia and Israel is the first analysis to be done of such kind. The development trends on both markets are similar. Those two markets has seen fantastic success in the last two years but the ways to gain the success were different in each of the two countries. This is the reason why it is necessary to analyze the potential of the Russian M&A market.
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№ 6(6)
01 november 2007 year
Rubric: Professional competence Authors: Elizarov V. V., Arzumanova N. V. |
Many HR specialists know from experience that 85 % of the Russian companies' management staff do not have any managerial background and education. In many cases the leadership qualities and charisma play the part the education should have played here. The experts also say the 70 % of the newly founded companies shut down during the very first year of their operation. The main reason for the failure is the absence of the leadership skills and talent. At the same time, according to the experts, even the management that has the leadership skills often lacks the background needed for an efficient manager. Besides, the leadership skills as such can hardly be defined although everybody knows that they contribute to the business success. The authors discuss the issues related to the professional manager competences formation, try to find out whether the competences available meet the employers' requirements, and identify the demand for the talented managers in Russia.
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