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Competent management of innovation processes in European regions is considered as the key to the development of knowledge economy. The effective use of achievements of research and development sector with regard to socio-economic development is actually a central aspect of this process. Both the efficient process of technology transfer and knowledge commercialization constitute an important attribute of the ability to create economic development based on new technologies. Hitherto gained Polish experiences point t...

Paper's aim is to shed a light on theoretical and practical aspects of taken measures by the Russian government on agriculture business optimization in Southern Russia. Moreover, the paper develops methodology as recommendation for the small agriculture business in Russia based on economy theories, previous studies in the area of agriculture business development. This study analyses federal and regional governmental initiatives and programs addressing optimization of small agriculture business in the period of eco...

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of occupational safety at work. building an effective recruitment mechanism. The basic legislation in the field of labor protection is presented. One of the conditions for their provision is the creation and successful operation of the OSH management system. In order for the integration of the implemented OSH management system into the overall management system of the organization to be effective, certain organizational and methodological rules are established that take...

One of the most important organizational resources is human resource of that organization, therefore organizations attempt to increase job satisfaction of employees. Employee job satisfaction is an attitude that people have about their jobs and the organizations in which they perform these jobs. Employee job satisfaction is generally recognized as a multifaceted construct that includes employee feelings about a variety of both intrinsic and extrinsic job elements. The result of previous research provide a broad vi...

Employee loyalty is one of the most important factors in the organization. The management of many organizations develops their training programs, benefit packages, performance appraisal and work system based on their company policies. The study included 169 customer service consultants with seniority from 3 months to 10 years and over who are working in one of the bank branch in Latvia. Respondents filled questionnaire: J. Meyer, N. Allen and A. Smith's "Survey of loyalty to the profession". The aim of research is...

The article is devoted not just to historical analysis of the Roman republican structures, but to the revealing of historical backgrounds of the institutes of democracy that we have today. In fact the Romans were the first who established the stable and viable institutes based on democratic principles and able to survive even great civil wars of the late Republic and to transform into effective mechanism of state management during the period of Empire. What was called in the ages of Rome “magistracy” today is ...

One of the key factors of innovative development is the availability of a favorable innovation environment that ensures the transformation of ideas and developments into market products, the introduction of these products into the most important branches of the economy and the social sphere, and also allows preserving a unique set of scientific and engineering schools. However, the key challenge for effective innovation is the lack of an enabling environment and an innovative climate that stimulates the creation o...

The article examines the issue of improvement the personnel reserve formation and the tools for its implementation. Requests of the companiesВ’ management systems for methodical provision of assessment of the costs recovery invested in formation of the personnel reserve are stated. Development of the structural and substantive content of the personnel reserve technology is characterized. The fundamental criteria, which analyze to determine whether or not specialists are fit for personnel reserve and diagnose of mo...

The relevance of this study is determined by the quality and effectiveness of project management processes that determine the main directions of the business entity development growing importance in the context of global instability and the escalation of competition. There is a need to increase the volume of investments in project risk management, including public-private partnership (PPP) projects as one of the most promising mechanisms for solving accumulated problems in various sectors of the regional economy. ...

The paper dwells on the phenomenon of mass sport in the context of the social history of the Soviet society of the 1920s and 1930s. The sport is a subject of historical reflection attracting more and more attention. The paper analyzes the development of healthy lifestyles, physical culture and sports as a subject of scientific study. The study of the mechanisms of recruitment of participants of sports clubs, teams and societies, the formation of leisure sports practices is the field of the "new" social history of ...

Paper's aim is to shed a light on theoretical and practical aspects of taken measures by the Russian government on agriculture business optimization in Southern Russia. Moreover, the paper develops methodology as recommendation for the small agriculture business in Russia based on economy theories, previous studies in the area of agriculture business development. This study analyses federal and regional governmental initiatives and programs addressing optimization of small agriculture business in the period of eco...

Due to their increasing incidence and intensity, weather anomalies are fast becoming one of the main challenges currently faced by organisations worldwide. Their negative consequences can be reduced, however, by developing organisational resilience that provides the capacity to survive the period of disruption and quickly restore organisational structures. The article discusses the mechanisms of organisational resilience triggered by extreme weather phenomena. Said mechanisms constitute a particular form of organi...

Integration interaction, various forms of integration and its participants are of great interest to Russian and foreign economists, researchers of the sectoral, regional, national and world economy. Integration of industrial enterprises is largely determined by economic and social institutions, adaptation to changes is a key condition for the viability, stability and efficiency of the functioning and development of integration structures in industry. The development of mechanisms for the functioning of industrial ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation in social and economic systems. The comparative analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation is carried out. The study identified a number of problems in the metrology of innovative development ratings. The analysis revealed a set of identical indicators characterizing this process at the macro, meso and micro levels. Most of these indicators are aimed at the innovative component evaluation in developed countries. Bu...

Music is a sensory marketing element. Retail image is formed by material, functional and psychological factors in physical environment showing how consumers identify the brand, price position and offered values. Retail atmosphere is closely related to the perception of psychological factors, which are retained in memory as brand symbolism and a pleasant atmosphere affects consumerВ’s loyalty. Music stimulates consumerВ’s response and behaviour in the retail environment. The effects of music are studied in terms of...

Economic history of the Soviet period needs further study to understand the motivations and actions of the state leaders, as well as the response of the population and public institutions to the ensuing results. Soviet political economy was primarily a tool of ideology. The objective laws of economics were not considered, as reflected in the economic policy of the Soviet state. The Kosygin reform of the 1965 takes a special place among the numerous Soviet reforms. They were preceded by the period of political "tha...

The new normality of individual and business life is increasingly built up under the influence of the key role of digital technology. Economic agents operate in unprecedented global engagement and continuously expanding business opportunities and information sharing capabilities. The information society transforms the restrictive conditions of place and time into factors of relative importance. Digital technologies go deep in a wide range of everyday and routine business processes and cause changes with significan...

The article presents the results of the study of prospects and problems of introducing new information and communication technologies into the practice of assessing the quality of medical services in Russia under conditions of the digital economy development. The strategic goals of ensuring the quality of life, set the task for medical organizations to improve the quality of medical services on the basis of objective and reliable data. The current methods of assessment, even with the use of the Internet, cannot en...

The articleВ’s objective is to present the results of empirical research conducted with the aim to study a chosen industry through the lens of its business models. The research approach is based on the theoretical construct of sustainable value creation, business models, and multiple customer value. These theoretical concepts were combined with various approaches to business model research by other authors to answer the stated research questions. In connection to the theoretical construct of sustainable customer v...

The current highly competitive situation requires organizations to seek, find and use new potentials to increase competitiveness in both strategic and tactical aspects of activity. In the article the approaches to efficient administration with significant contemporary bases of organization competitive advantage as set of strategies at various levels and its integration actions are analyzed. This in-depth analysis of the main idea of complex strategies, integration activity of organizations and its interaction spec...

The article studies some aspects of commemoration as exemplified by existing monuments, architectural objects of Yakutia devoted to the Second World War. The issue of commemoration has been studied by foreign researchers ?. Halbwachs, P. Nore, A. Megil, J.K. Olick, J. Robbins, G. Mink, L. Neumayer, E.-C. Onken, F. Martinez, K.L. Klein, A. Confino, ?. Assmann as well as by Russian scholars G. Okladnikova, E. Kandaryan, ?.I. Krasilnikova, ?.I. Miller, ?.V. Romanovskaya etc. However, there are no works on commemorati...

The Second Sophistic played extremely important role in the history of the Byzantine education. Rhetorical education was based mainly on those textbooks on rhetoric which were created at the time of the Second Sophistic. Works by sophists were used as examples of the Attic style. The fact that the Greek educational tradition was continuous throughout centuries allows us to assume that educational techniques did not undergo essential change during so long time too. On this background the absence of the special sect...

The current labour market in Latvia features shortage of professional labour due to demographic, emigration, payment, education and other reasons. An emerging tendency is that employees change their jobs more frequently, the mean duration of employment in a company is dropping, and companies experience higher levels of personnel turnover. Research reveals that it is the first six months of employment that have the crucial influence on the job performance of new employees and their intent to stay in the organisatio...

Planning local economic development is essential for building, improving and restoring the economic capacity of the region, thereby creating an opportunity to improve the quality of life in the region. In the process of local economic development planning, the public, private and non-governmental sector should be collectively involved, and their joint efforts should be geared towards creating better conditions for regional economic growth, preserving existing and creating new jobs. An important place in the planni...

Students of University of Business, Arts and Technology RISEBA starting supervisory practice, are faced with the problem that in the business environment is a lack of awareness and understanding of supervisor work. This raises the concern that the requested service is not required enough in the Latvian market. The situation is a little better with the coaching services, because for the past 5 years coaching promotion was quite active, therefore, awareness and understanding of this service has improved. The aim of ...

The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between organizational behavior variables by using hierarchical regression analysis. The survey responses collected in the study were analyzed and interpreted using SPSS for Windows 22.00 and AMOS 22.0 program. Descriptive statistical methods (Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Standard deviation) were used when study data were evaluated. Confirmatory factor analyzes of the scales were performed and the relationships between them were analyzed by hierarchical regre...

In modern socio-economic conditions the human factor plays a key role in any organization: effective management of human resources determines the market stability of the organization, the success of its functioning, the prospects for strategic development. The problem is urgent not only for the countries of the post-Soviet space, but also for countries with developed market economies. The authors of the article pay attention to the differences in the system of motivation in production enterprises and in the educat...

Personnel training and development is one of the key activities an organization should be concerned about. Providing better quality goods and services to the market, increasing productivity and, eventually, economic success of an organization – all these are only possible due to attracting and retaining the most qualified and efficient employees. Investments in human capital, in the form of personnel training and development, are essential for ensuring implementation of corporate strategic goals. The aim of this...

Technologies are changing rapidly. Dynamics of transformations of world economy obliges companies to react to such changes. In our opinion, new innovative economy is an embodiment of J. Schumpeter's ideas about creative destruction. Besides, it is obvious that opportunities of information technologies are not limited yet: forming new potentials for more effective functioning of the markets will continue. But there are many problems in innovations development in well-established companies. In our opinion, in Russia...

In the modern economy, competitiveness is put forward as one of the conditions of economic recovery. In order a sector to be competitive and viable in the long term, and to be successful in its activity, the sector has to ensure competitive production. Production competitiveness is a significant factor determining the sector's development potential. The goal of the research is to evaluate the production competitiveness of Latvian fisheries sector. On the grounds of the author's offered evaluation methodology and g...

Quality management and logistics processes in an enterprise should be closely related. The area of quality management and logistics processes must penetrate each other, co-exist. Their cooperation enables the company to achieve the organization's goals effectively, attract new customers and build a competitive advantage in the market. In the process of quality management in logistics, an important area is to prepare and constantly monitor the system of logistics implementation of customer service. The purpose of t...

China has a large population. With the development of ChinaВ’s economy and the increase in residentsВ’ purchasing power, the Chinese market is increasingly becoming a market that foreign companies are eager to enter. The development of China's health care products industry began in the 1980s, and has developed to a certain scale. In recent years, with the emergence of China's aging problem, the heat of China's health care products market has risen again. In the past research on the Chinese health product market, t...

The paper provides empirical analysis of the relationship between country level innovation performance and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, namely inward and outward FDI. The increase in the volume of foreign direct investment flows is according to the most influential theories of FDI the important accelerator of the countries’ economic growth and innovation capabilities resulting to increase in international competitiveness. In this light, the object of our interest is to verify the existence and the stre...

This article shows how the developed, adopted and implemented by the Party and the Soviet power in 1929, regulations, resolutions and other acts marked the beginning of the new attack stage on the religious organizations when the state bodies in fact proceeded to their complete elimination. A particularly severe blow was inflicted on the Russian Orthodox Church. One of the main arguments of the outbreak of the anti-religious campaign was the accusation of the Russian Orthodox Church of being “counter-revolutiona...

Work arrangements constantly change, as the interest of individuals in greater flexibility in relation to their work arrangements increases. Remote jobs in Latvia become increasingly popular with the advancement of information technologies and the increasing wish of individuals for flexible working hours. Productive remote work is possible only by means of modern information and communication technologies. The research aim is to characterise the types of employment and identify the opinions of external relations s...

In times of tough competition, companies spend more and more time on the positioning of their image in the labour market. One needs to be unique and innovative. A company needs to be able to stand out in the competitive labour market. The situation is, of course, easier if the company is a leader in its sector, but employees are also needed in other companies who have not yet become leaders. The web-based personnel recruitment company is an international company which offers a wide range of opportunities in web-ba...

The subject of the paper is the training of sales managers. Sales managers represent an important category of employees in terms of meeting companyВ’s goals and achieving the required performance. The paper presents the results of the research carried out on a sample of Slovak companies. The aim of the research was to find out the current situation in the use of the selected methods of sales managers training in Slovak companies and to test statistically significant differences in the use of these methods in terms...

Service orientation is now becoming an important factor favorable to manufacturers competitiveness. The focus in organizational service orientation is in the whole organization-wide inherent ability to create and to deliver excellent services. It is required changes in structures and capabilities. Prior research has sought to identify service-related capabilities of manufacturers through explorative research. Although extant research on organizational service orientation, servitization and hybrid offerings has sug...

In economy based on knowledge, a combination of employeesВ’ skills and experience as well as their engagement in the process of acquiring competences, is not only a factor that shapes the organizational culture but the one which allows for confirming the effectiveness of entrusted tasksВ’ completion and group work management. Human resources management is an activity which increases both the quality and efficiency of work. It enables increasing the effectiveness of an enterprise and, in consequence, gaining compet...

Current marketing communication has to respond flexibly to the needs of customers who create the demand side of the market. The side of the market supply is created by enterprises which trying to provide customers with the highest value in the form of the products or services. Customers are endeavouring to maximise their utility and enterprises are striving to maximise their profit. In the current business climate, marketers have to differentiate their attitude depending on the customer. The study deals with the r...

Development of the digital economy and information technology requires the development of an effective urban space management system. In this regard, the Russian state has adopted a strategy for the development of the concept of Smart City. In the process of modernization of Russian energy and transport industries and Civil Engineering industry, new ways of the territorial energy efficiency improvement are relevant. The selected topic of the article is considered very relevant. The authors of the article on the ba...

It is widely recognized that Social Capital and Social Support are phenomena influencing start-up creation, development and business success or failure. Trying to develop startup means to experience high levels uncertainty and it is essential to understand the possibilities to reduce the levels of uncertainty in the way the startup developer will perceive that. The research task is to find the forms of social capital and sources of social support the startup owners perceive the best. The aim of research is to inve...

The aim of the article is to clarify the relationship between the social capital and the efficiency of the public organizations. The social capital is an important intangible asset. Whether it is properly used, it can contribute to the development of an individual, an organization or the society. The study was conducted in 15 hospitals on a group of 576 respondents. The hospitalsВ’ efficiency was assessed in three areas: 1) The focus on the patients and their needs (ranking method), 2) The evaluation of the offere...

The study is aimed to analyze the socio-economic and demographic situation during the period of 1941-1945. The Victory over fascism was achieved at the cost of huge losses. A significant proportion occurred in the Lower Volga region, where at Stalingrad there was a radical change in world war II. The city was completely destroyed. Were lost a significant portion of housing, industrial enterprises, social institutions. In the region significantly reduced the population and changed the age and gender structure of so...

The objective of this article is to analyze marketing channels used by economic entities to engage consumers of private banking services on the Russian market, which is characterized by significant limitations on disclosure of consumer information. The article also aims to identify specificities of designing marketing channels on such markets and define future trends of their development. Analysis of marketing channels, used to engage consumers of private banking services, is based on results of a survey and in-de...

The aim of this paper is to present a realistic solution for the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) despite the financial crisis via innovative management. It is believed that the first “victims” of the debt and financial crisis are the SMEs and for this reason we present the creation of a dynamic “shield” via spin off and university research. A literature review took place to investigate the issue and to prove that the change of the “usual” into innovative management in Small and Medium Enterprises g...

Background: The Standard Audit File (SAF) involves the use of information systems and databases to send detailed tax data to the tax office and the Ministry of Finance. The role of SAF is constantly growing. Tax information is of great importance for this information. In Poland are many problems for methods of obtaining this information using the existing IT accounting. Not only does the universality of the SAF bring favorable solutions for the state and business entities. However, a swift decision about the oblig...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the importance of the initial orientation of startup businesses in the market and the problems that they face in the enfant industry phase. Thereof the paper aims to identify challenges and obstacles they face in this phase specifically in the transition country markets. There are many challenges including political, economic, social, cultural, legal, environmental, cultural and technological factors affecting the success or failure of businesses in initial stage. The paper ...

The merger processes in relation to universities have different objectives than processes characteristic of business sectors. One of the key objectives of the university is usually to increase the scientific or didactic effectiveness as a result of the merger. This is connected with the mechanism of "critical mass" and the progressive globalization of the science and higher education sectors. The larger scale of research and didactics resulting from the potential combination should provide better scientific result...

This article considers the development of the theory of knowledge management. The relevance of the article is due essentially to the powerful development of the information and digital economy and its impact on all areas of the economy of the state. The purpose of the article is the development of theoretical provisions on the strategy, organization and economy of the knowledge management system as a component of the enterprise management system as a whole. Methods of forming the strategy of the knowledge manageme...