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A research was made into the characteristics of 180 organizations operating in the public catering segment in the Urals Region in spring of 2006. The authors use the research findings to examine the main entrance barriers set in the market segment. The article authors break all the barriers in two categories: the structure and technology-related ones and human behavior-related ones. The empirical data gathered from the poll respondents show that the behavior-related barriers are the most important ones in terms of their influence exerted on the segment newcomers. The article authors also examine the ways to overcome the barriers. Econometric analysis helped the authors find out that the franchising and direct investments are the efficient ways to overcome the entrance barriers set in the public catering market in the Urals Region.
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The author examines the Russian agricultural sector competitiveness level improvement-related issues aggravated by the fierce competition in the international agricultural product sector. The author suggests that the self-regulation of the agricultural sector should become the base upon which the state should build a sector competitiveness management strategy. According to the author, the economic mechanism-based monitoring of the agricultural land fertility change should become one of such mechanisms.
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The need to cooperate both on the regional and global scale in order to ensure the energy sector security is becoming increasingly obvious in the new geopolitical situation. The author examines the Russian energy sector security and sees it as one of the most important components of the Russian national security system. According to Dr. Orekhov, if the country develops a well-thought-through and efficient energy sector development strategy, Russia could gain more prestige on the international scale by taking good advantage of its position of a superpower that has become a global energy-supplier. Besides, Russia can increase the political influence it exerts on many re¬gions in order to improve its position as a player in the global energy sector security system where there are some problems to be solved.
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The Russian management and owners of businesses operating in today's ever-changing environ¬ment lack strategic thinking skills and strategic planning experience. This is in many cases the rea¬son why the business management's actions are unpredictable, inconsistent, short term-oriented and are sometimes dictated by the lucrative impulses. The editorial board publishes here a series of articles written by Georgy Kleiner, a renowned Rus¬sian scholar. In his works he follows the principle of going from the abstract to the specific and from the specific to the practice and shows the essence of a strategic approach towards business management in theory and in practice.
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The agreement for appraisal services and appraisal report compilation requirements set by the Russian legislation are very strict and if the requirements are not met, the court of law has a right to issue a resolution stating that the agreement is null and void and the cost estimates are erroneous. That is why any customer should be aware of the appraisal and estimation-related operational requirements set by the legislation. This is the only way to decrease the risk of suffering from the bad consequences of the deal made in accordance with the costs estimates made by the appraisers and to decrease the risk of dealing with an incompetent individual and to save the money (the sums are sometimes quite large). Without doing an in-depth research, the article author offers the public to take a look at the legisla¬tion requirements and the appraisal standards that any appraiser has to meet when preparing an appraisal report.
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| Today the issues associated with the current financial crisis beginning point and the issues that concern the possible way out of it are discussed by various groups of people. The audiences who participate in the discussion range from the politicians and financial analysts to the academic community and the rank-an-file people. The politicians and analysts see eye to eye with one another as far as the reasons why it all has begun and the identification of the crisis stages we have lived through are concerned. They do not share the same opinion when it comes to the crisis countering measures and the crisis development forecast. Some experts say that the crisis is merely a part of the economic development evolutionary process which is quite natural while others are sure that the current crisis is a «man-made product», it is not a part of the natural development process, and it has nothing to do with the world economic development scheme. Mr. Zubov's viewpoint of the issue is published here by the editorial board. Continue... |
