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This article discusses the reasons for the slow pace of implementation of high-tech innovation
by traditional industries enterprises. Authors consider the lack of awareness of the level of technological
innovation as the main reasons for the slow implementation and usage of innovation by
representatives of traditional industries.
Authors adapt the well-known model of Aghion «distance to the frontier» so, that it can be applicable
to inter-sectoral and inter-firm level of decision-making. The resulting model allows in each
case (industry or firm) to answer the question: what is more effectively — to develop our own innovation
or to implement and use previously developed innovations.
The closer a company (or industry) is to the «frontier» of technological development, the more
benefits it will receive from the development of its own innovation. The greater the distance to the
technology “frontier”, the greater the innovation potential of the company (or industry), and the
more effective will be implementation and use of previously developed innovations.
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№ 4(52)
31 august 2015 year
Rubric: Competitiveness of the territories Authors: Morozov M. A., Aristov P. |
Within the publication relevance of carrying out the analysis of competitiveness of services of the
enterprises of restaurant and leisure-entertaining business is defined. The main changes of the
Russian market of restaurant and leisure and entertaining services caused by social and economic
features of development of the country are considered. The main tendencies of development of
the market of the considered services are defined. On the basis of the analysis of various approaches
to determination of competitiveness of the enterprises and services the author’s treatment
of the concept «competitiveness of services» was offered. In article types of the competition,
characteristic for the market of the enterprises of restaurant and leisure-entertaining business
are also considered. A number of the main approaches to an assessment of competitiveness of
services is presented, for each of which the main requirements are allocated. By reasoning and
by means of intermediate findings of studies underline the relevance and practical importance of
strategic planning, taking into account environmental factors, as well as the introduction of a set of
measures aimed at improving the competitiveness of enterprises catering and leisure and entertainment
business to meet the needs and goals of stakeholders.
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In the article the author reviews the main aspects that outline the competitiveness of the developed
and the developing economies in the international market. The main indicator of competitiveness
used is the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) published annually in the «Global Competitiveness
Report» by the World Economic Forum. The authors of the «Global Competitiveness Report»
define a more competitive economy as one that is likely to grow faster over time.
The author reviews a number of papers written by Russian-speaking researchers on similar subject.
Detailed analysis of the integrative sub-indices of the GCI is followed by an attempt to articulate
common key factors for competitiveness of different sub-groups of the developed and the developing
economies. The author attempts to describe common features for every newly outlined
sub-group.
As a result of such analysis the author attempts to articulate the common factors that define the
position of a certain economy in the GCI rating.
The author attempts to define the position of the Russian economy in the index and the main determinant
factors for its competitiveness.
Global Competitiveness Report, Global Competitiveness Index, International Competitiveness,
Developed Economies, Developing Economies, the Economy of Russia, innovation-driven factors
of development.
The author defines a separate category of economies: small resource-lacking countries. These
countries have managed to develop their economies despite lack in resources and their small
sizes (in terms of market and population). Israel being one of such economies deserves special
attention.
On the basis of modern concepts of «the knowledge economy» and the process of knowledge
accumulation (being an important process to spur the competitiveness of an economy) the author
analyzes Israeli experience.
The analysis is focused on the activities of the Chief Scientist’s Offices that operates within the
Ministry of Economy of Israel. The project initiated by the Office contributed to the growth of the
innovation potential in Israel during the last decades.
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This article is motivated by a growing interest in the problem of merger control quality assessment.
Remedies are one of the instruments of merger control and have a significant influence on the
results of it. This paper aims to build and empirically evaluate a discrete choice model of merger
remedies implementation in Russian merger control. The database consists of 502 merger cases
accepted by the Russian antimonopoly agency between 2010 and 2012. We analyse the agency’s
decisions to find which characteristics of merging firms and markets lead the Federal Antimonopoly
Service of the Russian Federation to decide whether to allow conditional acceptance. We
find that variables related to high market power such as high market share and significant entry
barriers lead more frequently result in a remedy outcome. Such industries as the coal mining and
chemical industry positively affect the probability of a remedy implementation. At the same time we
do not find significant effects of such high-concentrated industries as energy and gas. In addition,
the results also demonstrate that if one of the 5 giant firms take part in a merger, it has a positive
effect on the probability of the remedy decisions. Our study did not detect the influence of the firmbuyer’s
countries on using remedies.
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The article analyzes the impact on the personnel security market positions of the organization
that operates in a highly competitive environment. This environment requires extensive use of
the market against rivals of methods, including, and unfair competition. Some of them are aimed
directly at competing organization staff and implemented in the form of either direct solicitation of
employees in key positions or to induce them to cheat the trust of the employer. Another group of
personnel security threats linked to the initiative (not a result of the impact of competitors) manifestations
of disloyal attitude of employees to their employer. It is considered the most likely threats
to information and property safety of the modern organization by disloyal employees. The main
threat to its long-term competitive position determined by the threat of loss of business reputation
in the eyes of customers and business partners — due to willful disclosure of confidential information,
the mystery client component. No less dangerous from the standpoint of the existing realities
of the domestic market, the threat of a compromise of a particular organization as a law-abiding
business entity in the eyes of the fiscal, law enforcement and supervisory bodies of the state
have received relevant information from employees seeking revenge on his employer for the real
and imaginary wrongs. For business entities, occupying leading positions in the markets served,
particularly those working in innovation-driven industries represent a very serious threat to the disclosure
of information by employees that constitutes a trade secret. Threats property safety in the
article attributed the theft of money and material assets of the organization carried out in person or
with the direct participation of its employees, intentional damage to property, as well as corruption
of officials and their complicity in the raider seizure of property or business in general. Based on
the results of the review, formulated and argued for the competitive advantages that get business
entities to pay due attention to the prevention and prompt suppression of threats on staffing direction of the authorized activities. The first of these advantages is the acquisition of a high business
reputation in the markets served by the guaranteed customers, and the parterre storing information
constituting client confidentiality. The second advantage of the absence of conflict acts with fiscal,
law enforcement and supervisory authorities of the State and to prevent the conflicts arising from
the administrative, economic and other sanctions (up to the revocation of the license to carry out
the relevant business activities). A third advantage is determined by the improvement of existing
or maintain a leading position in the markets served, provides effective prevention of leakage of
confidential information constitutes a trade secret. A fourth advantage is to minimize the market
and direct financial losses in the process of production and financial activities of the organization,
which was caused by the direct theft of cash and highly liquid tangible assets own employees,
destruction or damage of various property complexes, corruption of officials in the form of transactions,
obviously unfavorable for employer. Finally, another important competitive advantage,
discussed in the article serves the preservation of high quality, hence the high competitiveness of
the human capital of your organization employer. It ensures effective prevention of this prevalent
in today’s labor market as the threat of poaching competitors or professional hedhanterami most
valuable employees — the representatives of the personnel of the elite organization. In the final
part of the article identifies the major methodological requirements for corporate management of
human security. These requirements are addressed to the owners and top management of the organization,
its staff work, managers of linear divisions. In particular, the necessity to ensure the two
main prerequisites for a high loyalty staff — namely, the creation of the subjects of the domestic
professional enterprise organizational, economic, social and psychological conditions that ensure
the loyalty of the staff, and they use a variety of application HR-technologies aimed at maintaining
the labor Corporate Relations team spirit.
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Correct interrelationship between organizational structure and operating conditions is important
competitiveness aspect of modern organizations. Equally important is the ability to implement
effective organizational change. The article investigates the procedure for the analysis of organizational
configurations. The basis of this procedure is investigation of the actual and perspective
coordination profiles of the organization. The object of study is static and dynamic state of organizational
configuration. The specific subject of the research is the dynamic of the «coordination
profile», as a totality of the basic coordination mechanisms (by H. Mintzberg). The hypothesis of
the study is that the characteristics of the coordination profile can influence the nature of organizational
relationships and the efficiency of the organizational structure in certain conditions. One of
the objectives of the article is to test the validity of the assumption about the dominance of «standardization
of skills» in the coordination profile of the professional organization — University. The
article includes: a) the analysis of the actual coordination profile and characteristics of the current
organizational configuration; b) the analysis of the prospective transformation of the coordination
profile of the organization.
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