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| The strategic orientation of any modern educational organization is to achieve competitive advantages in the market of educational services. The competitiveness of the university is directly dependent on the quality of its educational services. Evaluation of the quality of education, in turn, goes to such concepts as the rating of the university and its accreditation. Discussion of this area of higher education is actively conducted in the academic community, but its research, especially in the realities of the digital economy, is insufficient, which makes this publication relevant. The purpose of the study is to identify the actual features of achieving high competitiveness in the conditions of digital transformation by a domestic university. To do this, it is necessary to analyze the existing experience of Russian higher education in terms of responding to the challenges of digital transformation and develop recommendations for achieving high quality education in modern conditions. The research methodology is based on the theoretical foundations of professional education and the competitiveness of Russian universities. The article analyzes the domestic and international experience in assessing the quality of education, while proving that the main criterion for assessing the competitiveness of a university is the quality of learning outcomes. Methods of comparative analysis, observation and generalization are used. The study proves that modern Russian higher education does not always adequately respond to the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation. A number of systemic problems hindering the achievement of high quality of modern higher education are identified. The necessity of combining the introduction of innovative technologies of the educational process with the preservation of the advantages of traditional education is confirmed. Promising directions of constructive interaction of the university with the most important stakeholders of higher education – employers are proposed. Continue... | |
| Competitive advantages are an important economic category that is receiving close attention from researchers. Any organization needs to have distinctive characteristics in order to distinguish it from other market participants. This rule is also relevant for educational organizations that operate in the educational services market, which is characterized by a stable increase in the level of competition. Thus, the relevance of this study is due to the necessity to find optimal methods for solving the problem of competition between educational organizations in the higher education system. The purpose of the study is to reveal the essence of the competitive advantages of an educational organization, as well as to study the factors contributing to their formation and development. In accordance with the goal, the following tasks are set: to reveal the content of the competitive advantages of an educational organization; to formulate the factors characterizing the competitiveness of an educational organization; put forward recommendations related to the formation and development of competitive advantages of an educational organization. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the scientific achievements of domestic and foreign scientists on the issues of managing the competitiveness of an economic entity, including an educational organization. The author’s scientific conclusions are based on the theory of strategy and the methodology of strategizing by the outstanding scientist V. L. Kvint. To substantiate the achieved results, a set of scientific methods and approaches were used: analysis and synthesis, generalization, analogy, scientific theory. As a result of the research, based on the theory of strategy and the methodology of strategizing by V. L. Kvint, the essence of the competitive advantages of an educational organization as an element of its strategy is revealed. It is concluded that competitive advantages are an essential element of the strategic architecture, which, firstly, ensures the effectiveness of the strategy, and secondly, is a kind of filter in the goal-setting system of an educational organization. A number of recommendations related to the management of the competitive advantages of an educational organization are put forward. Continue... | |
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№ 1(85)
28 february 2022 year
Rubric: Entrepreneurship practice Authors: Kvita G., Arshinova A., Luchina N. |
The relevance of the issue lies in the fact that at present, the issues of economic survival and social security of people in all territories are becoming more important than usual. In a situation of limited resources, truly creative ideas get a competitive advantage and support. One of the urgent tasks of tourist areas is the creation of new tourism products and the rethinking of existing ones, taking into account the decrease in the solvency of people and the growing trend of domestic tourism. The purpose of the study is an attempt to unlock the potential of creative tourism in line with new trends in the development of the tourist product, as well as to substantiate the feasibility of promoting this type of tourism not only to meet the new needs of modern tourists, but also to solve the problem of tourism seasonality in certain regions. To achieve the goal, the following tasks were set: to study the existing experience, analyze it and justify creative tourism as a factor in the sustainable development of tourism and overcoming seasonality. Research methods: theoretical analysis of the literature and the study of the regulatory framework in the field of tourism, a systematic approach, which consists in considering tourism as a system that has its own complex structure and is part of the economic system of the region, interacting with other industry systems. As a result of the study, a new approach is proposed to present an effective connection between tourism and creative industries, which has a number of potential opportunities, the result of which goes far beyond the growing demand for tourism experiences. In addition to contributing to the sustainable growth of tourism in destinations, creative events are extremely beneficial because they can be strategically distributed throughout the year, minimizing the problem of seasonality. Thus, increasing the competitiveness of the tourism and hospitality sector. Continue... |
| Based on the results of a study of current Russian economic, corporate management and arbitrationjudicial law enforcement practice, the article outlines the main features of the state and trends in the evolution of corporate conflict in the Russian Federation. Among them, the following interrelated trends are considered: a) an extremely high measure of the concentration of capital in the domestic economy – corporate rights to business structures and the persistence of the trend to “wash out” the layer of micro-minority shareholders as a fundamental prerequisite for shareholder antagonisms; b) hypertrophy of “shadow” relations in the field of domestic corporate governance and a high degree of latency in managerial decisions as a source of conflict; c) active use by the parties of a corporate conflict of criminal law methods of pressure on a direct opponent and his allies; d) the prominent role of the state (the Russian Federation, its constituent entities, municipalities) in the sphere of corporate conflicts that do not directly affect its legal interests; e) a high level of methods of resolving corporate conflicts that are not located in the legal field; f) the scenario tragedy of domestic corporate disputes due to the professional unpreparedness of a significant part of “active investors”, which is rarely perceived by them in the context of the inefficiency of the applied systems and methods of company management; g) tough disagreements between the subjects of the corporate governance system, which usually affect a significant part of a group of companies built like a holding company; h) an impressive volume of corporate conflicts in the Russian Federation, represented by mutual reproaches of coowners of parity companies; i) corporate conflict in the sphere of moderately large and medium-sized businesses, which is a consequence of the orientation of domestic investment practice towards a purely short-term perspective; j) excessive “psychologization” of corporate conflicts, the refusal of the participants in the managerial confrontation to exploit the criterion of economic efficiency of appropriate response measures to emergency corporate situations – a comparison of expected results and associated costs. Continue... | |
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№ 1(85)
28 february 2022 year
Rubric: Competitiveness of business Authors: Sapozhnikov P., Lyubyashenko S. |
The article touches upon topical issues of the development of the Russian segment of the web services market in online environment in the global economic space. The study of the modern market of IT companies seems extremely relevant today. More and more firms need to start working in digital in order to expand business opportunities, optimize ways of interacting with customers, as well as increase competitiveness and economic efficiency indicators. The use of information technologies in business processes is becoming extremely necessary in the conditions of coronavirus restrictions, which increases the demand for IT companies’ services. In this regard, it is important to understand their basic strategies and assess their tendency to monopolize. “Previously, economists assumed that competitive markets for digital services are less prone to monopolization than markets for standard products. Now, monopolization, information asymmetry, and external (network) effects can be observed in digital markets” [1]. The purpose of the study is to identify the type of structure of the Russian segment of the web services market online in the global economic space and to assess the intensity of competition. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were solved: the relevant market was identified, its main characteristics and composition of participants were analyzed, the trends of its transformation in the conditions of COVID-19, the choice of criteria for analyzing the structure of the Russian market segment on the Upwork online exchange platform was justified. The results are based on an empirical study of statistical information on Novosibirsk companies operating on the Upwork platform. Such market parameters as a large number of firms, the insignificant height of barriers to entry into the industry, the predominance of non-price competition make it possible to identify it as a market of monopolistic competition. The article identifies the problems of antimonopoly regulation of the market of web services operating on digital platforms, namely: the complexity of their analysis and identification of the «relevant» market, the “blurring” of geographical and product boundaries, growing demand. The factors determining the competitive advantages of firms in the web services market and clients’ package, which, in turn, indirectly influence the choice of strategy, are systematized. The authors attempt to describe the motives of buyers’ behavior in the web services market when remotely selecting sellers in an online environment. Continue... |
