Проблемы теории и практики управления

Financing Mergers and Takeovers

Gvardin Sergei

Merger and takeover projects require considerable financial inputs. The world market knows multiple instruments actively used by companies to attract financial means in these bargains. Among others, the author regards such forms as funding with the use of own capital, credit, leasing, promissory notes, emission of securities and ordinary shares.

Implementation of Information Systems at the Enterprise: Problems and Solutions

Mezentseva Maria

The implementation at the enterprise of the corporate information system is a serious step both for the company and its top management. Therefore, the human factor has topical importance here: undeliberate errors or personal interests pursued by the personnel can cause an avalanche of uncertainties even if a practically perfect system is available.

Information Technologies in Education: Advantages of an Integral Approach

Golosov Alexei, Polotnyuk Irina, Philippovich Andrey

An integral automated system of an educational institution is formed in two stages, each one implies key works aimed at constructing or modeling the training process and the system aimed to automate the educational process. In pursuit of this goal a program complex is applied which makes use of information technologies making the process more efficient and the outcome qualitatively higher.

Managing Changes in Corporations Based on the Cyclical Nature of Innovation Processes

Gorshenin Vladimir

A corporation's innovation potential is liable to cyclical dynamics comprising its origin, development, growth, maturity and extinction. According to the author, with the help of statistics and results of specially organized measurements of several thousands of processes and surveys, a reliable information basis needed to practically apply the designed models of a cyclical-genetic dynamics can be developed.

Managing the Process of Purchase by Using the Supplier's Multi-Criterial Evaluation Method

Bazhin Igor, Barinova Natalya, Sysoev Vladimir

The topicality of designing the adequate method of choosing a supplier is due to the simultaneous existence of two contradictory trends in business development: the first consists in 'at-arm's-length' relations between the buyer and the supplier giving place to closer links; the second reveals growth in the number of suppliers and consumers as the market develops.

Methods of Identifying Problematic Conditions in an Organization

Ushvitsky Lev, Alexeeva Alla

Methods of expert analysis of problems in an organization applicable both independently (if the results suit the researcher) and in auditing, are presented in the research paper. The authors in their work proceeded from the assumption that the expert participating in diagnostics is viewed not as a measurement 'instrument' but as part of the system, its element, which, due to the specifics of activity, faces some of a whole multitude of its problems.

Motivation in the System of Intra-Holding Management

Krasilnikov Sergei

With all the external logic of the motivation system addressed to help attain the company's goals, its practical implementation turns out to be related with many difficulties and does by far not always produce expected results. The author identifies several hindering factors which can be conditionally subdivided into three main groups: psychological, methodological, and organizational-structural. The elimination (at least partial, if not total) of these hindrances requires that potentialities of the motivation system be clearly defined and its application, where it can produce a maximum effect, determined.

Reforming China's Military-Industrial Complex

Kamennov Pavel

The reform of Chinese military-industrial complex (MIC) is intimately linked with the transition to a new industrialization stage the country has started which core has to be a turn to an efficient saving-oriented production type. On this stage China has succeeded in transforming its defense industry into a manufacturer of both military and civil production. This maneuver allowed to enter the world markets, develop international trade and economic cooperation in space industry, aircraft-building and electronics, carry out researches in nanotechnologies.

Russian Holding Companies: Management Problems

Avdasheva Svetlana

Business groups became a widespread form of Russian business organization. Judging by the data of a research made with the author's participation, the level of corporate integration has been increasing along with the economic upsurge and reached its maximum in 2002; later on, the number of enterprises forming holding companies started to decrease. A selective survey gave ground to qualify management issues like internal organization of a holding company, control patterns and the use of corporate levers, strategic solutions horizon, etc.

Strategic Management and Control

Stolyarov Nikolay

State control is an unalienable function of any system of social management. This obvious axiom has, however, started to be questioned during the process of market transformation of Russian economy. On analyzing the issue of state control in the US and the Russian historical experience in the field the author draws the following conclusion: control is not an end in itself but a part of social management system, which aim it is not only to reveal deviations from designed development plans but to intently see to saving budgetary funds, and - what is topical - to set up conditions to avert violations.

The Efficiency of State Administration

Arshakyan Derenik

State administration is mainly connected with institutions applying government policy and the economic program, as well as with the activity of officials in charge of their implementation. Since a certain conservatism is typical to the governance system in any country and, conversely, the administered object is in continuous development, with time contradictions and discretion emerge in their relationships. Therefore, the structure of governance has to transform constantly in accordance with the state of the administered object.

The Specificity of Assessing the Financial Sustainability Level of Belorussian Enterprises

Matveeva Svetlana

The main task of financial management in an industrial enterprise is to objectively assess the company's solvency and asset management levels, the degree of its dependence on external financial sources, compute business activity indicators, the enterpriseґs profitability. These elements are interconnected and call for a systemic solution, which can be reached by way of designing an integral pattern. The application of foreign methodologies of developing similar patterns is unlikely in the Republic of Belarus in view of specific sales and resources markets as well as the conditions in which economic agents operate. That is why a methodology is to be developed, which could allow to use less data and accomplish less labour-intensive operations to acquire and process it.

The Specificity of Management Resource Provision in Managing the Sphere of Culture

Serikov Alexander

Under modern conditions new opportunities surge for resource provision connected with searching for synergy effects in management processes, which are of information nature and replenish lacking material resources. In this light the author makes an attempt to revise the traditional concept of culture as a sphere of consumption and an exceptionally costly field.

Training to Obtain a Master's Degree as a Form of Management Cadre Training

Teleshova Irina

In the recent decade radical changes in the organization and content of specialists training have occurred at the economic department of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University. The new concept of forming plans of studies previews a block principle in studying interrelated subjects, successive return to the courses to study and permanent introduction of new subjects. During education period future master's degree holders make practical work, which type depends on the content of the program and the wish of the particular student.

ФОРУМ БУДУЩИХ ЛИДЕРОВ

Какой мы хотим видеть нашу страну в будущем? Этот вопрос был задан студентам и аспирантам ведущих вузов России и других стран СНГ. Ответы прозвучали на конференции в Москве, на которую были приглашены авторы лучших работ. Четыре из них публикуются в журнале.What is the image of our country we wish to see in the future? The question was posed to students and post-graduates of leading educational institutions of Russia and other CIS countries. The answers were voiced at the Moscow conference, to which authors of the best works were invited; four of them are published in the issue.