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• The Belarus Business Environment as Assessed by the Management of Leading Finnish Companies Operating in the Country

  ... Approximately 7,000 companies with foreign capital were registered in Belarus by the beginning of 2013. Finnish companies founded three dozen of these foreign firms. A lack of scientific reports on the perception of foreign businesspeople in the Belarusian business environment necessitated an empirical study. This article studies the attitudes of the directors of Finnish firms operating in Belarus on the Belarusian business environment. In September-October 2013, the author conducted interviews with directors ...

• Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisation

  Russia’s evident ‘turn to the sea’ as regards the economy, the infrastructure, and population distribution patterns is very much in line with the interests and projects of large businesses. This change manifests itself in the development of port and logistics complexes, the port industry, the construction of offshore pipelines, more active offshore oil and gas production, the growing demographic potential of coastal cities, etc....

• Billionaires and Millionaires of the Baltic Sea Region: A Comparative Analysis of National Business Elites

  Local business elites make a major contribution to the development of the Baltic region’s countries, shaping their present and future. The Baltic business elites are an integral part of the transnational capitalist class — a product of the global economy ...

• Knowledge Management and the Increase of SME Competitiveness: a Case Study

  The need to enhance the competitiveness and innovation capacity of small and medium enterprises is one of the key objectives of emerging EU economies. In this regard, the authors define the role of knowledge in enhancing business competitiveness in a regional economy. The effect of knowledge management processes on the economic activity of businesses in the Latvian region of Latgale is considered. To assess the role of knowledge and knowledge management processes, the ...

• Trade in the Kaliningrad region: methods of evaluation

  The article suggests a new methodological approach to assessing business activity in retail trade in the Kaliningrad region. The authors present a methodology for calculating the regional index of business activity in retail trade, taking into account the specificity of the Kaliningrad region. Indicators of retail ...

• The development of small innovative enterprises through harmonising economic interests

  The harmonisation of economic interests is one of the essential preconditions for the development of enterprises, including small ones. As practice shows, the harmonisation of major interests of small innovative business requires not only market instruments, but also state regulation, which demands the development of a corresponding mechanism. This study sets out to develop and justify the macroeconomic mechanism of development of small innovative enterprises ...

• The evolution of the essence of the concept of “business efficiency” and its features in the regional media business

  This article classifies the concept of "business efficiency", which have been used by economic scholars for a long time. The innovative component of this work lies in the authors’ definition of media business efficiency alongside the identification of the primary goal of media company ...

• The features of the functioning of small enterprises in the conditions of regional exclavity

  This article analyzes the features of small business activity in the conditions of regional exclavity. The author shows that these conditions have both positive and negative impact on small business development. The combination of the specificity of small enterprises as business entities and the ...

• Opposition of modalities in petition formulas as a reflection of the business correspondence culture in the Russian languagee of late XVII — early XVIII cc.

  Using the texts of petitions as a genre of business correspondence in the initial period of the formation of the Russian language, the authors explore the specifics of the formulas that make up phraseological units. Employing a functional-semantic analysis of the modalities of possibility/impossibility ...

• Key factors of the spatial organisation of small businesses

  This article describes the conditions, resources, and prerequisites necessary for the efficient functioning of small businesses. Based on the theoretical propositions and practical results of productive forces distribution, the authors identify groups of factors of spatial organization of small businesses: national and supranational level, regional level, location, ...

• Regional business letters of the mid-18th cen­tury in the aspect of genre parameterization

  ... Mikhailovsky village ataman fund of the State Archive of the Volgograd Re­gion (SAVR, fund 332, inventory 1, files 1—158, 1734—1837). In order to deter­mine the speech markers of the document genre for its automatic recogni­tion in the corpus, the business letters of the mid-18th century were para­metrized. The study has confirmed that the Don Troops office documents con­tained in­formation on investigative matters. The speech markers are deter­mined by the communicative situation and the document ...

• Сompetitive environment, business activity, and consumer sentiment: the regional aspect

  The methodological issues of assessing regional competition, business activity, and consumer confidence are considered as part of a study of regional competitive environment. The results of an analysis of national and international practices in assessing parameters describing competition, competitive environment,...

• The features of providing telecommunication infrastructure for business activity

  This article considers the basic provisions of the methodology for providing telecommunication infrastructure for business activities at different management levels. The author proves that it is possible to develop this methodology on the basis of queuing theory. The author proposes an algorithm of forecasting changes in infrastructure provision for business activity....

• Network Transformations in Economy

  ... context of ever-increasing market competition, networked interactions play a special role in the economy. The network form of entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as an effective organizational structure to create a market value embedded in innovative business solutions. The authors study the characteristics of a network as an economic category and emphasize certain similarities between Rus sian and international approaches to identifying interactions of economic systems based on the network principle....

• On potential role of regional authorities in managing formation an development of market infrastructure

  ... Kaliningrad region’s government in managing market infrastructure development on the regional level. Special attention is given to the foreign experience concerning the role of regional authorities in formation and development of small- and medium-sized business supporting infrastructure. 1.  Антикризисные меры. Правительство Калининградской области. URL : http://www.gov39.ru 2.  Арбузов М.   А. К вопросу о концепции ...

• Modern marketing practices: a preliminary comparative analysis of studies in developed and developing countries

  ... IT-enabled interactivity in contemporary marketing // Journal of Interactive Marketing. 2001. Vol. 15, № 4. P. 18—33. 6. Dadzie K. Q., Pels. J. Business-to-business marketing practices in West Africa,Argentina and the United States // Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing. 2008.Vol. 23, № 2. P. 115—123. 7. Ferdous A. S., Hossain S. Profiling contemporary marketing practices in Bangladesh// Journal of Asia Business Studies. 2011. Vol. 5, № 2. P. 161—171. 8. Kallol D. Contemporary ...

• Small business developing the regional Identity: a case study in the Baltic Sea Region

  This article compares the frequency of the use of the toponym 'Baltic' in the names of small enterprises in Baltic cities. The author draws conclusions on the role of small business in the development of regional identity in the Baltic Sea region and assesses the prospects for the formation of a regional business community in the Baltic region. 1.  Барыгин И.   Н. (ред.) Дискурс в региональном ...

• The alignment of stakeholders’ interests in interfirm networking

  ... quality program: an investigation into the governance dynamics in a multi-stakeholder supply chain network // Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. 2010.Vol. 15, № 2. P. 165—182. 2. Anderson J. C., Håkansson H., Johanson J. Dyadic business relationships within a business network context // Journal of Marketing. 1994. Vol. 58, № 4. P. 1—15. 3. Bek N. N., Bek M. A., Sheresheva M. Y., Johnston W. Perspectives of SME innovation clusters development in Russia // Journal of Business ...

• Methodological approaches to studying the socio-psychological aspects of business activities

  This article presents the results of research on motives for entrepreneur-ship. The author examines the psychological criteria for successful business, as well as the social and psychological factors whose influence increase the level of business activity. Special attention is paid to the psychological features of businessmen relating to the level of their ambitions, and the social and psy-chological ...

• The development of a mechanism for stimulating the innovative activity of small enterprises

  This article analyses the current problems of stimulating innovation activity of small businesses in the Russian Federation. The problems of development of financial institutions for innovation support, financial and production-technological subsystems of the innovation infrastructure, and staff recruitment are examined in the case of the ...

• Country Competitiveness: an Empirical Study

  ... policies effectively influence country competitiveness? The aim of this research paper is to analyse country competitiveness empirically, in order to explore the factors that make countries competitive. This can allow governments to structure their business environment differently, and to elaborate strategies aimed at improving their countries’ overall competitiveness. Economic size and trading conditions have proven important for economic success throughout history. Individual competitiveness ...

• Investment attractiveness of Russian enterprises from the perpsective of transnational corporations

  ... // B. Ohlin, P.-O. Hesselborn, P. M. Wijkman (eds.). The International Allocation of Economic Activity. London, 1977. P. 395—418. 7. Hymer S. The Large Multinational Corporation // An Analysis of Some Motives for the International Integration of Business / M. Casson (ed.). Aldershot, 1990. P. 8—31 (translation of a 1968 article from French with an introduction by M. Casson). 8. Kindleberger C. P. American Business Abroad // Six Essays on Direct Investment. New Haven, CT, 1969. P. 1—36. ...

• Localization of large business in coastal zones as a factor of transboundary clustering (on the example of the European part of Russia)

  The factors and features of localization of large business interests in 14 European coastal regions of Russia are analyzed. It is shown that the interest of large business in the coastal zones is commonly associated with the concentration of large oil and gas fields (on the shelf and in the coastal zone),...

• The key problems and dimensions of financial policy for small businesses

  ... article reveals the key problems in the activity of small enterprises in Russia in view of the stage of enterprise’s life cycle of and its industry features. The author identifies the areas of formation and implementation of financial policies in small business. 1. О развитии малого и среднего предпринимательства в Российской Федерации : федеральный закон Российской Федерации от 24 июля 2007 г. ...

• On the international cooperation of North-West Russia in the field of innovations in the Baltic

  ... cooperation programmes. The most significant projects focus on the development of information and communications technologies in healthcare, the development of networks uniting innovation centres in the Baltic Sea region, and the transnational network of business incubators in the Baltic Sea region. The author identifies promising areas of cooperation between North-West Russia, Finland, Norway, and Estonia in the field of innovations, including telecommunications, information and, space; biological, environmental ...

• Literary text as a pedagogical tool of developing a future economist’s business culture while learning a foreign language

  ... article is devoted to the preparation of students of economics for professional communication. The author proposes the principles of text selection for foreign language classes. The paper also considers some ways of developing the future economist’s business culture while learning a foreign language. 1.  Жаркова Т.   И., Синицких О.   В. Отражение национального харак­тера в по­словицах и поговорках // Иностранный ...

• The mandatory classification of hotels and other types of accommodation as a business process: the case of the Kaliningrad region

  This article deals with the mechanism of mandatory classification of hotels and other accommodation units on the territory of the Kaliningrad region. This requirement is considered as a business process. The article provides a detailed analysis of the input and output of the business process and its six main stages. The authors address the key problems faced by Kaliningrad hoteliers when undergoing the classification procedures. The ...

• Marketing analysis of the preferences buyers in the retail segment pharmaceutical business old-industrial region

  Increasing competition in the retail segment of the Russian pharmaceuti­cal market, which is mainly represented by small businesses, leads to the struggle for each customer, who is becoming increasingly demanding when it comes to the quality of medicines and medical services. The article identifies the main problems and factors affecting the development of the retail segment ...

• The Baltic economic model: some results of the 1990—2015 transformations

  ... files_uploads/files/book_2012_grigorjev.pdf (accessed 05.05.2015). 14. Klyamkin, I. М., Shevtsova, L. F. (eds.), 2008, Put' v Evropu [Way in Europe], Moscow. 15. Ral'f-Martin Soje 2009 god: jekonomicheskij rost 5,6% [Ralph Martin Soe 2009: growth of 5.6%], 2013, Delovye vedomosti [Business News], available at: http://dv.ee/Default2.aspx?ArticleID=d329f296-517d-452b-8fef-70a83e1d52cb&open=fou (accessed 14.07.2008). 16. Economist: Latvija smogla dostich' nevozmozhnogo [Economist: Latvia managed to achieve the impossible], 2010, ...

• The prospects of entrepreneurship in the formation of new hi-tech markets in the Baltic Sea region

  The article offers an analytical review of the prospects for the formation of new hi-tech markets in the Baltic Sea region with the participation of small and medium businesses. In view of the essential features of entrepreneurship, its prospects in the development and implementation of innovations seem to be quite attractive. However, in the current economic context, growth requires special measures. The authors ...

• The methodological features of managing the value of companies introducing "green" innovations

  ... is a common assumption that innovations are one of the most important factors of economic development, there is a need to review some provisions of innovation methodology so that new fundamental values are taken into account more fully. Most recent business models are based on the depletion of natural environment, whose potential has been almost exhausted. It is necessary to introduce new ideas that are of use for society and create values for companies. One way of achieving this goal is “green” ...

• Framework for the Analysis of Geography of Transnational Corporations Investments Abroad

  ... Europe, Baltic Region, no. 1, p. 25—35. DOI: 10.5922/2079-8555-2015-1-2. 7. Kuznetsova, O. V., Kuznetsov, A. V., Turovskij, R. F., Chetverikova A. S. 2007, Investitsionnyje strategii krupnogo biznesa i ekonomika regionov [Investment strategies of large business and economy of regions], Moscow. 8. Lobanov, M. M. 2010, Transformatsija otraslevoj i territorial’noj struktury promyshlennosti postsotsialisticheskih stran Tsentral’no-Vostochnoj Jevropy [Transformation of industrial and territorial structure ...

• The international experience of integration of education, research, and business

  The article considers three main types of integration of education, science and business. There are: American type, Japanese type and Mixed type. The main role in American type of integration plays Research University; the main role in Japanese type plays Government; the main role in Mixed type (mostly prevalence are in Central and ...

• Medium-term models of SMEs development in modern Russia

  The article is devoted to forecasting the development of small and medium- size businesses (SMEs) in Russia. The authors offer an algorithm of the identification of development tendencies for small and medium-sized businesses using linear equations. The medium-term econometric model of economic forecasting is based on the application ...

• The territorial features of the development of small enterprises in the municipalities of the Novgorod region

  ... municipalities of the Novgorod region. The author analyses the opportunities of applying different geographic research methods to the identification of territorial disproportions. The article offers an assessment of the total and special potential in small business development. A classification of regions according to the total potential and the degree of economic space potential development by small businesses is presented in the paper. 1. О развитии малого и среднего предпринимательства ...

• The role of International trade in improving the competitiveness of Saint Petersburg

  ... theoretical aspects of regional competitiveness as such, analyse the ten years’ data on the city’s international trade, and explore the significance of image, reputation, and information support for the region’s international trade provided by business information centres abroad. The authors employ the methods of expert opinion and statistical analysis as well as the authors’ own data to consider the problems of international trade development in Saint Petersburg and the ways to improve the ...

• The asymmetry of small and medium business development at a regional level

  This article proposes a practical method for estimating the regional asymmetry of small and medium business development and presents the results of its approbation in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia. The author makes a conclusion that small and medium business is developing unevenly. The author's method can be used in studying other aspects ...

• The Simulation Modelling of a Hotel Facility

  This study aims to identify the features of the simulation modelling of a hospitality business. Such simulations can be used to increase the efficiency of property management in view of the major trends in the relevant segments of the tourism industry. We suggest an approach to the simulation modelling of a hospitality facility that will ...

• Interorganisational networking as the principal form of technological, innovative and research cooperation between Russia and the European Union in the Baltic region

  ... sotrudnichestvo: vidy, formy realizacii [International scientific and technological cooperation: forms, forms of implementation], Izhevsk. 27. Sterlin, A., Ardishvili, A. 1991, Predprinimatel'skie seti — novaja forma organizacii mezhfirmennogo vzaimodejstvija [Business networks — a new form of organization of inter-firm cooperation], Mirovaja ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija [World Economy and International Relations], no. 4, p. 70—80. 28. Tretiak, O. A. Rumyantsev, M. N. 2003, Setevye formy mezhfirmennoj ...

• 3.0 University: legislative framework for innovative entrepreneurship

  This article describes a legislative framework for a new model of higher education institutions, oriented towards business and innovation. The author offers practical recommendations for the development of competitive socioentrepreneurial innovation-based universities. It is shown that the new generation university should be formed on the basis of the socio-entrepreneurial ...

• Development of motivation principles for entrepreneurship

  ... 7.  Хакхаузен Х. Мотивация и деятельность. Т. 2. М ., 1986. 8.  Шумпетер Й. Теория экономического развития. М., 1982. Bilchak E. V., Puryzhova L. V. entrepreneurship, business theories, the enterprise, motivation, business functions, entrepreneurship psychology. 75-83 10.5922/2223-2095-2009-3-11

• Determination of Psychological Stress of Executive Officers

  ... considers the determination of executive officers' psychological stress and the role of temperament in stress emergence and management at work. The author offers the scheme and results of the research conducted in Kaliningrad with the participation of business managers. 1. Вяткин Б.   А., Жданова С.   Ю. Психология познания индивидуальности. М., 2007. 2. Китаев-Смык Л.   А. Психология стресса. М., 1983. 3. Люшер ...

• The image of modern Russian innovations in the Danish mass media

  ... 2011). 4. Ellemann-Jensen, U. 2010, Rusland-Danmark: 500 års fred, Berlingske, 26 April, available at: http://www.b.dk/kronikker/rusland-danmark-500-aars-fred (accessed 01 February 2011). 5. Breinstrup, T. 2010, Europa klar til kamp mod Silicon Valley, Business. Dk, 5 November, available at: http://www.business.dk/tech-mobil/europa-klar-til-kamp-modsilicon-valley (accessed 01 February 2011). 6. Gardel, U. 2010, Det moderne Rusland, Business. Dk, 2 July, available at: http://www.business.dk/ledelse/det-moderne-rusland ...

• The acquisition of professional competences by specialists in the field of insurance with the help of business games and problem-centred lectures

  ... the basic problems of the educational process in the modern conditions in the cases training insurance specialists. The author suggests applying the active training methods in the educational process. The article offers an analysis of such methods as business games and problemcentered lectures. The author emphasises the need to use such methods in developing the professional skills of future specialists. 1. Васильев А. А. Применение методов активного обучения ...

• Russia’s political risk for the foreign investors: A special emphasis on Kaliningrad

  ... FSU Energy , July 31, 2009. 2.      BBC Views of China and Russia Decline in Global Poll, BBC World Service, Februa ry 6, 2009. URL: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org (дата обращения: 12 мар ­ та 2010). 3.      BEE Business outlook: Russia, Business Eastern Europe , May 18. 2009. 4.      BEE Losing a grip on the North Caucasus, Business Eastern Europe , June 22, 2009 . 5.      Closson Stacy The North Caucasus after the Georgia-Russia Conflict, Rus­sian ...

• The Institutional Architecture of Territorial Innovative Systems: Towards a Spatially Targeted Regional Policy

  ... capital is a global challenge faced by modern regional policy. I analyse the background for, and limits to, the development of a spatially targeted regional development policy. Lithuania’s so-called valleys – integrated centres for research and business — are a possible way to embrace the approach that suggests concentrating resources on breakthrough areas, which makes it possible to put local growth points on the international map. 1. Ерзнкян Б. А. О логических основах ...

• The Baltics on Their Way towards a Circular Economy

  Circular economy has been studied extensively both in Europe and worldwide. It is largely viewed as a potential strategy for societal development, aimed to increase prosperity while reducing dependence on raw materials and energy. Many businesses regard circular economy as a way to enhance economic growth and increase profits. Governments across the world actively engage in the discussion about the benefits of a transition to a circular economy and about its impact on employment, economic ...

• On problems of conversion functional enterprise management to process one

  The problems that arise during the transition from functional to processmanagement company, their solutions, an algorithm for the development of business processes. 1. Репин В. В. Бизнес-процессы компании: построение, анализ, регламентация. М., 2007. 2. Шеер А.-В. Бизнес-процессы. Основные понятия. ...

• Information resource for corporate reporting for the innovative attractiveness of business

  ... of the study, the authors proposed a new composition of the reporting indicators, which synthesizes the formats of non-financial reporting used. Corporate non-financial reporting in its synthesized format clearly demonstrates the objective state of business and the possibility of implementing a business development strategy. 1. Абдуганиев Н. Н., Федоров М. В. Нефинансовая отчетность и подход к ее разработке как важнейшему ...

• The Baltics in the Geography of the Largest Transnational Corporations of Europe

  ... Soviet Union” (some Russian companies), “Northern Europe and Central Asia,” and even “Middle East and Eastern Europe." Varying understanding of where exactly th borders of Europe lie could explain the plurality of attitudes of the European business establishment to the EU sanctions against Russia. 1. Boatsman, J. R., Behn, B. R., Patz, D. H. 1993, A Test of the Use of Geographical Segment Disclosures, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 31, no. 1, p. 46—64. 2. Gray, S. J., Radebaugh,...