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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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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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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 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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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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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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