Проблемы теории и практики управления

Comprehensive Sub-System of Metallurgy Enterprise Management

Logunova Oksana, Matsko Igor, Pavlov Vladimir

The authors analyze the price index and scrap consumption dynamics in arc furnace steel production, concentrate on the technology stages of improved steel production, and advance a comprehensive automatic sub-system to monitor scrap fractions.

Indicative Planning in the Agriculture-and-Production Complex (APC): Methodology and Principles

Strashko Irina

The author describes the main elements of indicative planning methodology as applied to agricultural production. Particular attention is paid to the principles and functions of indicative planning.

Innovation Development and Network Management

Milner Boris

Various types of innovation networks allowing to raise the efficiency of partner interaction are investigated, cooperation levels in the process of attaining the goals of innovative development are drawn upon.

Place Branding: Definitions, Essence, Formation

Vazhenina Irina

The author researches the essence of place branding notion, cites its various definitions, and shows the dialectics of image, brand and place reputation.

Production Management: Division of Labour according to Functions and Qualifications

Udalov Fyodor, Voronov Nikolai, Udalov Oleg

The authors focus on issues related to the division of labour in managing production in big industrial enterprises. The topicality of the issues is substantiated by the growing complexity of production processes and increasing information flows of internal and external types.

Strategic Development of the Machine-Building Complex: Factor Analysis

Nevsky Nikolai, Zadumina Natalia

Problems connected with developing the machine-building complex are researched, the factor analysis-based approach to their solution is shown.

Strategic Enterprise Management: Structural Functional Model

Zinina Lubov, Yefremova Lidia

The authors propose a structural functional model for strategic enterprise management which implies several successive stages: analysis, strategy elaboration, realization, control and adjustment. They propose an algorithm, which helps formulate the entire strategy - from its elaboration till its realization.

Strategic Planning and Enterprise Development: Bases of Adaptive Approach

Nikonova Alla

The fundament of adaptive management build three types of models applied to validate unknown parameters of the system. The author presents the scheme of adaptive management and methods of enterprise adjustment and decision making under conditions of limited information due to unpredictability of the environment.

The Cadre Potential of a Region: Management Methods during Transition to Innovative Economic

Yerokhina Elena

General issues linked with managing the cadre potential of a region are researched, ways are proposed to improve personnel training to meet the demands of innovation economy in formation. The author stresses the need for implementing a target-oriented approach to cadre potential formation in the regions.

The New Architecture of Global Financial and Economic System: Eventual Contours

Andrianov Vladimir

The specifics of the current situation in world economy is analyzed, ways to overcome the crisis in monetary policy, banking, and stock exchanges are expounded.

The Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs) in the USA - a Comprehensive Form of Governmental Financial Control

Guseva Natalia

The article addresses the operation of the Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs), mirrors the specificity and presents the legal basis of the given institute.

The Socioeconomic Status of Municipal Entities: The Role of Public Policy

Cheremisinova Valeria

When analyzing the socioeconomic status of municipal entities the development level of institutes and mechanisms of public policy should be taken into consideration. The article gives an overview of methodological approaches to assessing the level of socioeconomic development of municipal entities, and identifies the advantages and flaws of these approaches.

Workers Earnings Inequality: Trends and Ways of Overcoming It

Goncharov Vadim

The author deals with the specific role CEOs wages in joint-stock companies play to broaden the gap between poverty and wealth, and suggests that this negative tendency should be overcome with the help of a microeconomic approach.