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The article examines the process of forming the sustainable competitive advantage of a company (on the basis of the resource-based view) as the result of effective employment and development of core competences and components of intellectual capital. The article comments on the structural and functional interdependence of organizational, human and relational capitals of a company.

In this article, the author shows the importance of effective management of universities communica¬tions, as a factor of its competitiveness. The competitive advantages of high school are forming in the process of communication with all interested parties, which improves universities competitive¬ness in the educational market. The author deals with problems of ensuring the competitiveness of the university by management of communications with potential consumers of educational services, partners, business environment, competitors, public authorities and administration.

In this paper we formulate requirements for the formation of a universal theory of competition and analyze separate assumptions by some authors in connection with the development of the general concept of competition. Article also contains the author's hypothesis about the possibility of creating a general theory of competition on the basis of a systematic approach. In this context, competition is considered by the author, not only as a process, but also as a three-level system that includes an expression of competitive relations in the principle of a market economy (macro level), the mechanism of competitors interaction (meso level) and ways to implement the economic goals of competition (micro level).

The goal of this work — to characterize the development of scientific discussion, happening on the pages of the «Modern competition journal», and try to reconcile the seemingly contradictory position of members of scientific debate, as well as to present the author's position on several key points of discussion.

The article continues series of studying-methodical materials for «Theory of industrial organization** course. This publication presents materials, analyzing the behavior of large sellers in the market. In particular, the exercises are considered the causes and consequences of special forms of rela¬tionship between producers and sellers in the market — vertical integration and vertical restrictive contracts and behavior of the sellers of differentiated products and price discrimination.

In the tenth theme the author considers the factors, methods and strategies of resource conserva¬tion as an important component of management competitiveness. Indicators of resource capacity of products are consistently described. Presented scheme of calculation of the effect of individual factors on capital productivity, as well as the sustainability of the company, allows to predict the prospects of the companies development.