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Many specialists express different views upon the meaning of the terms «competence» and «jurisdiction». Despite the variety of opinions everything goes around the idea of knowledge, skills and abilities of an employee who occupies a certain position in a company. We believe that very often entrepreneurial competence is not enough to form an effective system of corporative management in a company. Today the development of the competence of corporative management is still not given much attention to at educational institutions, training and consultancy companies serving business.

The journal continues to publish Professor Rais Akhmetovich Fatkhutdinov's textbook Organization's Competitive Capacity Managements The fourth topic is devoted to the problems of additional synergetic reserves that increase companies' competitive capacity on the basis of cluster formation. The author reveals principles of competitive capacity management at the time of globalization, factors of increasing quality and effectiveness of decisions on competitive capacity; he also studies universal, general and specific functions of competitive capacity management. On the basis of the systematic approach the author shows the management structure of a competition-oriented organization.

The article presents the basic parts of competition policy — protective and active competition policy, as well as competition advocating. Protective competition policy explains the content of the «hard antitrust core» and suppression of unfair competition. The article studies directions of active compe¬tition policy such as the development of competition in industries with a natural monopoly element, competition rules in the market with a state as a buyer, the decrease of redundant barriers for enter¬ing and leaving the market. Variants of correlation and interaction among instruments of protective and active competition policies taking into account differences in tough and soft force are shown in the article.

In the following article the author tries to trace the change in views on the nature and the moving forces of competition, a regular process that accompanies the development of economic systems. The emphasis is given to the opposition of static and dynamic competition theories.

The article gives a detailed description of direct discredit and enumerates its features. Direct discredit is one of the types of unfair competition prohibited by the Federal Law «On Competition Protection*. On the basis of the legal analysis of the Federal Law regulations, court decisions, and specialized scientific literature the author reveals a specific character of spreading false, inaccurate, or distorted information that may bring material losses to an economical subject or damage their business name. The author sums up experience of legal regulation of competitive relations and expresses his view on how to tackle separate issues of direct discredit.

The article reveals purposes of competitive capacity evaluation for various objects and subjects of economic relations, analyzes and systemizes various competitive capacity rates on the basis of subjects for research, defines such basic categories of the system and reproduction approach as intensification, efficiency, competitive capacity; works out requirements to rates and methods of competitive capacity evaluation of an enterprise; develops the system for a choice of efficiency and competitive capacity rates of an enterprise on the basis of the system and reproduction approach. This system includes production, financial, market and socio-ecological efficiency.