Проблемы теории и практики управления

Analysis of Technological Changes: A Simplified Model

Sinyavsky Nikolai

The author develops an approach which allows to use simple indicators reflecting technological changes undertaken in an enterprise. The idea is exemplified by a sawmill.

Business Processes Management: Methodological Principles

Khlystova Olga

Methodological principles of business processes management are analyzed, the most important of them - consistency, complexity, bifurcation and entirety - help design the methodology of business processes analysis and management.

Competitiveness of Tourist Services: Evaluation Methods

Baumgarten Leonid

The article highlights most promising systems of indicators and methods to evaluate the competitiveness of services with a view to their practical application (the example of tourist services is analyzed), including those based on a close connection between price, quality and consumer value of services. Expert and other heuristic as well as graphic methods are presented.

How to Govern Changes in the Process of Regional Administration's and Regional Public Structures' Interaction with the Management of Holding Companies

Rodnyansky Dmitri

The author unveils the essence of the interaction process taking place between the authorities and public organizations on the one hand and the management of regional holding companies on the other. Mechanisms of setting up private-state partnership are investigated, advantages for every participating agent are substantiated, the interaction model between business, authorities and society in issues related to private-state partnership is displayed.

Investment Attractivity of an Organization: Assessment Criteria

Dedyukhina Natalya

The author makes a critical evaluation of national and foreign theoretical provisions for a financial-investment analysis and proposes a new methodology to assess and forecast the financial conditions of an organization by means of parameterization of accounting balance sheet ratios which characterize the permanent working capital adequacy. This approach expands the set of analytical tools used by financial analysts, auditors, arbitration managers.

Managing a Continuous Process Industry: Statistical Process Approach

Pevzner Mikhail

The author shows specific features of process approach (by applying statistical monitoring) to quality management in a continuous industry. The problem is investigated at a big manufacturing complex.

Managing Capital of a Commercial Organization: Methodological Support

Prikhodko Yevgeniya

The author focuses on the system of accumulating financial resources by a commercial organization. The structure of its aggregate capital is assessed from the point of view of return on capital.

Restructuring of a Big Company as Efficient Management Component and Tool to Raise Its Competitiveness

Likhachov Mikhail

The article presents practical experience in reforming a big company by restructuring its subsidiaries according to the profile of their operation and by ensuring tariff transparency and substantiation of enterprises engaged in natural gas development, transport and storage so that every subsidiary is concentrated only on its main activity area.

Socioeconomic System: Determining the Self-Organization Level

Denisenko Vladimir, Reshetov Igor

Computation methods to determine the self-organization level are given. On the basis of information theory notions and approaches a management system pattern is developed allowing to determine a formula for assessing the optimal quantity of management staff.

Special Economic Zones in Russia: Outcomes and Prospects

Sidorenko Yuri, Klepikov Alexander

The specificity of how investment projects - like special economic zones - function is shown, principal problems connected with setting up these zones and their operation in Russia at the present stage are identified.

State Support for Mortgage Credits in the Period of Crisis

Litvinova Svetlana

The current situation in the country's economy is mirrored in the borrowers' capability to clear off their mortgage loan obligations; therefore in late-2008 the government of the Russian Federation began to analyze various ways of how to help to mortgage borrowers. As a result standards of restructuring the indebtness of OAO Agency for Restructuring were developed.

The Impact of Organizational Shifts on Firm Growth

Shirokova Galina, Berezinets Irina, Shatalov Alexander

The article presents the results of an investigation devoted to evaluate and analyze the impact of various types of organizational shifts on short-term, medium-term and long-term growth of a firm. The authors develop a typology of organizational shifts depending on the scale and duration of shifts.

The Specificity of Managing Cooperatives Abroad

Fyodorova Ludmila, Emelyanov Sergei

The article investigates the management specificity in Mondragon cooperatives (Spain). Advantages and problems of cooperative management within this system are identified and opportunities in applying the experience of Spanish cooperative movement in Russia's economy regarded.