Проблемы теории и практики управления

Commercial Bank Break-Even Analysis Based on Demand and Supply Curves for Financial Resources

Ten Valeri, Shuremov Yevgeni

The bank's expenses are more complex than those of enterprises operating in other economic sectors, the former cannot be 'linked' with particular goods acquired by the buyer in a definite place. Expenses in form of interest on outside funds payments can be taken as the main part of variable expenses.

Economic and Social Problems of Corporate Governance

Shinkarenko Pavel

What is corporate governance? Does its Russian model exist? Where are the centers of power in a corporation? What role does the government play in economic management? Participants of a round table discussion organized by RAS Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Scientific Council attached to RAS Social Sciences Section, and the Institute of Perspective Studies made an attempt to find answers to these questions.

Enterprise Diagnostics and Its Models

Matveeva Svetlana

In the period of radical restructuring only leaders in changes survive, those who catch their trends and adjust rapidly making use of emerging prospects. A leader of this type has to regard a change as a new and favorable chance which implies searching for changes that might be useful for him, and knowing how to make the changes maximally efficient for the enterprise's outer and inner activities.

Enterprise Operational Cost Management System

Grudkin Alexander

The most urgent problem for the majority of agricultural enterprises is the unpredictable and in most cases uncontrollable growth of production costs. In this connection the design of an efficient cost management system becomes the most significant ingredient in production strategy for competitive products.

E-skills for Russian SMEs (EU project)

Vartanov Misak

The European Union sets an ambitious goal to catch up with the US in ICT as infrastructural basis of the new efficient economy - the knowledge economy. While implementing the project the Community will have to solve the tasks of improving technical and managerial skills, personnel training and changing the management style, making corresponding business decisions accessible, to tackle the problem of high equipment value, security and protection of citizens' private life.

Government Guarantees for Small Innovative Businesses

Dagaev Alexander

In Western countries, considerable expertise has been accumulated in supporting small innovative businesses based on governmental participation in stripping credit and investment risks. In Russia, a country with not yet markedly developed small innovative businesses, the mechanism of state guarantees might play the role of an efficient catalyst.

Integration of Heterogeneous Systems: Information Aspect

Polotnyuk Irina

When setting up big corporate departmental and inter-departmental information systems problems often arise of how to consolidate the information proceeding from a multitude of applied systems in use. Due to lacking integral vision the company chief, although he has the whole necessary information in hand, cannot apply it, for example, for analytical purposes.

Luxemburg: Holding Companies 1929

Mezentseva Galina

Holding companies 1929 emerged in Luxemburg when the law as of July 31, 1929 was enacted granting them an almost total tax exemption on condition they carry out rigidly limited activities. They can, however, invest into enterprises acting as independent juridical persons and not necessarily being 'transparent' for taxation.

Modern Approaches to the Quality Concept in Management

Salimova Tatyana, Vatolkina Natalya

The degree to which the essence of the quality concept is realized and comprehended depends on the following factors: the person's world outlook criteria; his moral values; the social fundament, i.e. conditions of life and creative work of the person in the society whose member he is; the psychological factor, i.e. the person's satisfaction with the conditions of life, creative work, and the activity he undertakes; the technological factor which determines the development level of material production, and introduction of innovations.

Neural Network Technologies in Stock Market Analysis

Gerasimenko Natalya

The neural network approach is oriented towards making the system non-linear and self-learning in tackling tasks difficult to formalize, e.g. forecasting the development of financial markets. The neural system has a higher flexibility and, thanks to the ability to process unclear data, can bring substantial profit despite the fact that, as a rule, it does not provide a 100% accurate solution of the task.

On Management Efficiency of Complex Socio-Economic Systems

Prangishvili Iveri

Several scientific methods of raising management efficiency in organization systems, which are also acceptable for social (socioeconomic, political) systems, exist. The author examines five methods, which have proved their value: the 'golden section' or 'golden proportion' method; that of soft resonance management; of cognitive analysis and management; of reflexive management; and of a systemic approach in management.

Organizational and Economic Development Mechanism in Enterprise Management System

Khazan Mikhail

Radical changes in operating conditions caused by high rates of scientific and technical progress offer new chances to enterprises so they can gain advantages in market competition. At the same time, however, they create certain difficulties because it is not a rare case when modern technological solutions require new organizational approaches for their application. Therefore, issues of both scientific-technical development and organizational improvements have to be regarded in inseparable connection.

Problems of Organizing the Budgetary Process in a Holding Company

Blokhin Konstantin

In a holding company managerial decision-making based on consolidated information infringes on the interests of several organizations at once and becomes more and more pressing.

The Concept of Organizational Changes in Modern Companies (concluding 2nd part)

Milner Boris

The greatest challenge faced by an organization is the necessity to identify areas subject to changes, prepare these changes and support them in various aspects of activities.

The Policy of Attracting Foreign Capital in China

Novosyolova Lubov

The active inflow of foreign capital in China aims to compensate limited national investment resources, the relative backwardness of national equipment and technologies and, thus, contribute to comprehensive modernization of the country's economy. Big hopes are set on applying modern management, reinforcing the export potential, stimulating receipts in foreign currency.

The Structure and Functions of an Organization's Accounting and Financial Service

Volkova Olga

The organizational forms and the degree of importance of sub-systems may be different depending on the specificity of activities; two of the sub-systems (financial and informational) are, however, always vital, which is connected both with legislative requirements and the very nature of the organization's functioning since not a single economic agent can operate without exchanging information - be it in form of instructions transmitted 'from above' and reports on their execution transmitted 'from below'.