Проблемы теории и практики управления

Designing Efficient Information Security Management System of a Company

Koptelov Andrei, Berkovich Vadim

Efficient management of information security acquires ever significant value for Russian companies. The existing non-systematic application of resources allocated for the purpose do not, however, provide for the necessary protection level. To overcome the drawback, companies have to integrate all elements of physical and information security into a unified process. The author focuses on the model of information protection, which is based on systemic approach and ensures confidentiality of data and accessibility of information whenever needed by the manager.

Foreign Retail in Russia

Khasis Lev

The sales volume of world leading retail networks have grown to an extent that they feel squeezed by national boundaries; an expansion of world retail networks also to the Russian market results inevitable. The emergence of foreign competitors induces Russian retail companies to develop their own comparative advantages-based strategy proceeding from the knowledge of local conditions and buyers' preferences, the chance to rely on long-term credits and strategic partners, etc.

Institutional Transformations and Competitive Environment Formation in Russian Economy

Shamray Yuri

The absence of a firm ownership basis is typical for market relations in Russia - a situation connected with incomplete payment for the property acquired in the course of privatization in 1990s. Is means that any time the question of this property being illegitimate can be posed. The relations can be recovered in two ways, according to the author: either by setting up a system of additional payment for the property previously acquired at understated price, or to nationalize it. The article focuses also on developing competition of differing property forms and improving governance institutions. Directions of institutional transformations on the labour and capital markets are traced.

Integration of Higher Education and Academic Science

Nekipelov Alexander

Global competition calls for an intensified practical tendency in education, its orientation toward the most recent achievements in fundamental research. A fruitful solution of the task manifests M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University which opened its Moscow School of Economics for «piece production» of elite experts. Ten Academicians and Corresponding Members of Russian Academy of Sciences, a number of leading professors of Western universities teach lecture at School. Monthly scientific seminars on «State and Economy» held in MSE are also an example of science and education integration.

Multi-Contour Management in Socioeconomic Systems

Aglitsky Igor, Kuzmin Valeri

Management in social systems is carried out to give them a certain direction in their functioning and development. The presence of various types of management (centralized and decentralized, internal and external) is typical for any socioeconomic system. The authors also focus on notions like economic agents and objects, economic organization, they analyze in detail management contours viewed from owners' (founders'), hired personnel's, creditors' and governmental sides and, in the end, come to the conclusion: the specific feature of management as a science consists much more in practice (not so much theory) being a priority in the field

On Designing a Coordinated System of Intra-firm Management Indicators

Titov Vladislav

The fundament of enterprise management is intra-firm planning, which applies econometric models and gives an idea of the company's development. In the process of setting the company's strategic goals five planning stages can be named, the author argues. By passing from one stage to another the designers of iteractive calculations solve a complex non-linear task of technical-economic and financial planning as well as of coordinating all most important indicators.

Price and Sales Volume Optimization according to the Criteria of Marginal Profit Maximization

Shuremov Yevgeni

The functional link between demand and prices allows to jointly optimize prices and the sales scope - the author's assertion is illustrated by mathematical arguments, which help introduce certain specifications into economic theory. It is argued that the conclusions made have mainly theoretical value because they formalize only the most general mechanisms of price and sales volume optimization and identify the principal dependencies between variables. In order to apply the models in practice, it is expedient to insert them into typical program complexes.

Problems of Conceptual and Methodological Bases of Anti-Crisis Management Formation

Kislukhina Irina

Anti-crisis management cannot be regarded as a temporary phenomenon in Russian economic science and practice since critical phenomena are of cyclical nature. In economic literature, however, a unified, universally recognized interpretation of this management type does not exist due to its essence, role and place in management theory and practice differently conceived by economists. After analyzing various approaches to forming the scientific concept of anti-crisis management and its differences from management in its ordinary regime, the author defines several measures enhancing the effectiveness of the former

«Strategic Planning and Enterprise Development»

Shinkarenko Pavel V.

This was the title of the VII All-Russian symposium attended by more than 400 scholars, professors and lecturers from five countries. Shortened versions of main reports made at the forum plenary session by Academician V.Polterovich; Corresponding Member, Russian Academy of Sciences G.Kleiner; professors O.Inshakov from Volgograd, V.Tambovtsev from Moscow, and E.Popov from Yekaterinburg are published in the selection. Among other topics, problems of interaction of economic theory and management, the link between economy and culture, the impact of institutes on economic growth, etc. were regarded at the symposium.

The Analysis of Financial Results of Operations with Commercial Bank's Corporate Clients

Inozemtseva Yulia

The analysis of operations with corporate clients helps identify the dynamics of results attained and the factors of influence, discover hidden reserves and «bottlenecks» in servicing clients. In spite of the need for this assessment, the area in view is underdeveloped in economic science. The results of bank operation are calculated applying the principle of conditional chargeability of resources re-distributed within the bank for the sake of financing operations. The methodology suggested by the author is of universal character and applicable for operative and retrospective real data-based analysis, or forecasting.

The Efficiency of Governmental Support for Small R&D Intensive Business in the US

Khalchanskaya Viktoria

In the US the small business sector takes a key position in innovations, represents more than 90% in the overall number of R&D intensive companies and produces nearly 50% of innovations. The result is reached thanks to governmental support of the sector. For the purpose, a law is, notably, adopted, which aims at enhancing the efficiency of targeted funding of R&D intensive programs for small business and makes it mandatory for federal agencies to insert these activities in their strategic plans. The Office of Management and Budget is in charge of generally assessing the validity of these allocations which provide for high quality and commercial efficiency of small business researches.

The Mechanisms of Practicing Enterprise's Environmental-Economic Management

Borodin Alexander

Growing requirements of environmental protection and demands for environmentally friendly goods make ecomarketing ever more important. Researches into the area have developed recently which results in a disagreement among Russian and foreign scholars about how to interpret the concept of environmental marketing. Proceeding from the existing definitions the author holds that the environmental marketing information in the aggregate, can be systematized according to two features: the origin and the content.

The Presidential Program of Managers' Training as a Factor Enhancing Competitiveness of Regional Economy

Gurieva Lira

In Russia the tasks of developing human capital are solved with the help of various national projects, an important place among them occupies the Presidential program of training managerial personnel. The program's mission in the North-Osetian State University is the formation of regional enterprises' and organizations' personnel by means of training managers in command of modern tools to design and implement new technologies, set up competitive productions and services.

СОДЕРЖАНИЕ ЖУРНАЛА ЗА ПЕРВОЕ ПОЛУГОДИЕ 2006 Г