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A detailed analysis of the reasons for failures in entrepreneurial activity in Russia shows that the majorities of them are predetermined by the lack of skills and sometimes unwillingness to process and analyze data about the surrounding and very often aggressive environment of an enterprise. The article aims at introducing its readers to the history of such a notion as competitive (business) intelligence, its main methods, principles of activity, its role in competitive struggle. The author gives methodical recommendations of a practical character that will help to collect and analyze data nec¬essary for successful activity of a commercial firm or organization.

The author of the article makes an attempt to study the newest corporative blackmail as a form of the national shadow entrepreneurial practice from the point of view of the unfair competition theory. The classification of basic corporative blackmail methods is given. Socio-economic risks of institutional underestimation of greenmail are shown.

One of the leading problems about application of rule against collective domination's excessive use (in the form of high prices) is the problem of proving, that established price level is caused exactly by companies' monopoly behavior. During commenced in autumn of 2008 in Russia cases against oil companies such proofs were not provided, anti-monopoly authority and courts mainly based themselves upon data about ratio between world oil prices' dynamics and retail oil-products prices' dynamics. This article' aim is to analyse effectiveness and foundation of Antimonopoly Legislation's application for the purpose of counteraction against high prices at Russian oil-products' markets.

The activity of government bodies, local and administrative governments, control bodies is very often connected with anticompetition actions. The article is devoted to the structure study and the reasons for infraction of the law on the protection of economic competition. Ukrainian economical activity provides the material for this analysis. The manifestation and the practice of termination of governmental illegal actions are analyzed on the basis of various cases from the practice of the Ukrainian Antimonopoly Committee. Proposals on the improvement of governmental activity in the sphere of competition development are worked out.

The article is devoted to the analysis of cluster relations that are considered to be a factor of an enterprise competitive capacity in the Russian motor-car construction. Within the framework of the research the analysis of the Russian motor-car construction spatial structure is carried out, the biggest regional centers (potential clusters) are found, distinctive features of cooperation among companies and the competitive environment are studied in two Russian regions. The results of the research allow the authors of the article to come to the conclusion that in the case of the industry under the analysis geographical concentration, predominantly the heritage of the planned economy, cannot be the basis for the identification of regional manufacture centers as clusters. The reason lies in a low level of cooperation among partners. Nevertheless there are prerequisites for the develop¬ment of cluster relations in the industry under the analysis. Moreover there is also some evidence of positive connection between the readiness of a company to cooperate with the environment and its innovative activity.

In the article is revealed the intension of top managers' key professional competencies, which affects competitiveness of Russian companies, headed by them. The author is pointing the reasons, why chief must not only master required professional competencies, but also has to sequentially and purposefully form corporative culture in company, by which competitiveness-centered competencies would be common for every person in team. In the article were opened very important for corporative management practice questions: by which resources the key professional competencies are formed, in what degree it is beneficial for Russian higher education institutes and which way the situation can be changed.