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Recently the rapid growth of the Russian factoring market has led to tough competition among its participants. The article deals with the peculiarities of competitive advantages formation of factoring companies that are the basis of their competitive capacity. Furthermore the author describes the process of competitive capacity formation of a factoring company at the development, sales and promotion stages of its products. The article also reveals methods for managing competitive capacity of a factoring company.

It is believed that the use of cutting edge technologies is a key to increasing competitive capacity of an agrofirm. However, it is a very narrow view upon a competition issue in the sphere of agriculture that is governed by numerous details and nuances the understanding of which broadens the idea of key areas for making efforts by management in order to increase competitive capacity. Competitive capacity issues of an agrofirm are studied from this very position.

The article gives prove to the idea that competitive relations in the market of higher education are far from being civilized, regulated, and protected from monopolization and dominance. The national educational law and subordinate legislation in the sphere of education aimed at regulating and stimulating educational relations are used as a means of unfair competition, make for monopolization of professional education markets. It all happens due to the fact that the legislator and educational authorities fail to realize the necessity for antimonopoly monitoring and regulation of this area. The author shows some of the norms and reveals their anticompetitive character.

The journal continues to publish Professor Rais Akhmetovich Fatkhutdinov's textbook "Organization's Competitive Capacity Management. The fifth topic shows methodological bases for managing objects' competitive advantages, research¬es peculiarities of innovation portfolio formation, gives a classification of values. The sixth topic is devoted to issues related to introducing methods of forecasting management deci¬sions, economic assessment of activities and planning.

In the article the author carries out a deep analysis of the two fundamental economic categories: the invisible hand» of the market and competition, — thus accentuating the problems of intercon¬nection between micro- and macroeconomies, competitors' and public convergence of economic interests. Arguing for the differentiation between the invisible hand» of the market as a macroregulator of economy and competition as a regulator of economic relations on the microlevel, the author defines the invisible hand» of the market as a competition-independent data structure that gives macrodata saturation to a competitive mechanism.

The article studies a Gazel-firm phenomenon (companies that have been showing fast and steady growth for a long period of time). The author reveals peculiarities of their development and reasons for deviation from general tendencies that are typical of similar companies in developed economies. The article contains specific examples and the results of entrepreneurs' questionnaire answers that show reasons for exponential growth of Gazel-firms.