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The article attempts to analyze the methods of deregulating the industries of natural monopolies
and evaluate the applicability of essential facilities doctrine to the task of antitrust regulation of the
activities of digital multi-sided platforms — one of the most actual problems, facing the theory of
competition today.
The article describes the common features and differences of market structures of natural monopoly
industries, deregulated using the «essential facilities» doctrine, and digital platforms.
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№ 3(75)
30 september 2019 year
Rubric: Entrepreneurial competencies Authors: Lukashenko M., Ozhgihina A. |
In the light of transformations, which happen in contemporary highly competitive society practical
and theoretical significance of the problem of an entrepreneur’s image making is growing. The
purpose of this paper is to find out which parts of an entrepreneur’s image are considered to be
the most important both by themselves and by their business environment. In order to define it the
work gives an experimental research of entrepreneurs’, managers’ and specialists’ opinions about a
contemporary entrepreneur’s image and provides the analysis of its results. The method of research
consisted of oral and written interviews, as well as interviews in social networks. The analysis resulted
in considering key features of a contemporary entrepreneur’s image. The article shows that the
respondents consider the following to be dominant features of the image: appearance, individuality
and environmental friendliness which includes compliance with the timing, agreements, reaction
to the partners’ requests. Meanwhile professionalism was regarded as secondary in the list of key
characteristics of the image.
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The article presents a new vision of the labor behavior of an employee as a subject of competence
of management of utility of the labor activity knowledge in a competitive environment. Solving the
problem of disclosing the substantive aspects of competence and achieving the corresponding goal
was carried out using a combination of methods: dialectic, systemic, mental experiment method,
modeling method, logical methods and, accordingly, using elements of the dialectic, teleological
systemic, competence approaches, and the principle of inconsistency.
From the point of view of the principle of inconsistency, the phenomenon of knowledge of one’s
own labor activity (KOOLA) is revealed. KOOLA is understood as a set of labor actions of the employee,
optimized for their usefulness and reflecting the knowledge of the employee on the labor
activity in general. KOOLA is shown as consisting of its various parties, because in the process of
formalization it is differentiated into many parts — labor actions knowledge, which are determined by
the subject of competence in terms of total and marginal utility. In this sense, an employee can act
as an entrepreneur, where purposefully exercising the management of the utility of KOOLA, involving
the consumption of labor actions knowledge with greater or lesser utility, also leads to greater
competitiveness in the conditions of market relations and labor interaction with other competing
employees, as subjects of KOOLA and, potentially, subjects of competence.
The results obtained in this work can be used in further studies of the potential of entrepreneurial
competence of managing of KOOLA from the point of view of employee competitiveness, and can
also be recommended for use, as part of the existing system of general and special education to
prepare a modern competitive specialist, and in terms of corporate training to improve the competitiveness
of the labor behavior of employees.
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The article describes in detail the market forces exerting increasing pressure on the pawnshop
market in Russia: the level of competition, inter-product competition, new threats, changing consumers
and suppliers forming the price strategy. The microfinance niche of pawnshops is undergoing
a significant transformation along with the entire financial market, the diversity of the financial landscape
is shrinking, competition is intensifying.
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№ 3(75)
30 september 2019 year
Rubric: Industry market Authors: Morosanova A., Markova O., Meleshkina A. |
Digital transformation affects all areas of the economy either implementing IT-technologies or just
enjoying their spillovers. Compared to other transportation spheres, freight industry is a subject to
significant competition effects. On the one hand, these effects stem from the fact that large operators
can provide integrated services and carry out multimodal transportation and door-to-door delivery.
On the other hand, some delivery companies tend to implement territory “zoning” strategies and
specialize on the certain cargo type which may lead to cornering the market. Delivery companies in
developed countries have already outperformed Russian ones in digital technologies implementation:
their quality of railways and carriages, air transportation services and trucking logistics is much
higher. The main obstacles of digital technologies implementation in cargo transportation industries
include the need significant investments (which especially affects small companies’ performance),
lack of digital aspects in the industrial policy, lobbying of large cargo companies. Fast penetration of
digital technologies also causes several competitive risks. There exists a tendency towards market
consolidation which is especially important in terms of the emergence of large multimodal transport
companies, who may exploit its dominant position to eliminate competition. Moreover, nowadays
there exist several freight platforms entrusting transportation duties to the actual carrier companies
by means of vehicle-cargo matching. The business model when a platform does not own freight
transport is new phenomenon for the freight industry as well as for the regulators. That is why the
regulators need to take into account new digital trends in freight industry and develop their own
services for gathering reliable data to keep an ear to the ground in promoting competition in the
transportation sphere.
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The problem of increasing business competitiveness through the implementation of investment
projects is particularly acute in crisis and post-crisis economy. In the context of changing external
conditions and the development of economic science it is necessary to systematize and to
improve the tools of evaluation of investment projects aimed at increasing business competitiveness.
The article describes the possibility of improving tools for appraisal of innovation potential
of the project, commercial and investment attractiveness of the project, analysis of project risks.
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