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Development of ICT, Internet and electronic commerce tools has totally changed the way of doing business, business processes, marketing and Public Relations. A new type of activities in the digital environment provides an advantage to small and microenterprises to effectively communicate directly with the target group of customers and achieve much better results than with the traditional media. The purpose of this article is to describe the main factors influencing the usage of e-commerce in microenterprises’ mark...

The paper is dedicated to the points of efficient recreational management of natural resources in the steppe area of Russia. It is the authors’ opinion that koumiss therapy – the traditional for the region kind of tourism – is necessary to consider as an upcoming trend in the development of recreations in steppes of the Russian Federation. The history of the koumiss therapy at the territory of Russia and the USSR is analyzed in the paper; it was noted that the organized at the beginning of the XX century net of he...

Like any other commodity market, alcoholic beverages market has its own the specifics of development. The paper investigates the problems and prospects in the development of the alcoholic industry on the regional level. The authors identify the problems of implementation of the federal laws on the issues of administrative and legal regulation of the alcoholic market, as well as the structure of offenses in the sphere of production, turnover and retail sales. The methodology aimed at developing the criteria and ind...

The aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive picture of the development of the Slovak economy in the context of the regional development of the regions with the help of macroeconomic indicators. The content of the article is a literary overview of the basic concepts, methodology explaining the method of calculation, which allows an effective understanding of the content of the present article. When assessing regional disparities, different approaches and methods are used. Comparison and analysis of individua...

Currently, the business is considered a key factor for economic growth and development. In this context, it should vigorously address the determinants that affect business activities and hinder its development. This issue is pertracted in different dimensions at the global and national levels and the results of the examination are contained in databases and scientific studies. The source of these data is from 1999 and the project Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - GEM, where the core of the research lies in the nat...

Economically justified solutions concerning the European transport system are crucial for the competitiveness of the Alliance throughout the World, for the financial growth, for reducing the unemployment and for improving the standards of living. It is exactly the free movement of people across the borders which is one of the four types of freedom typical for the European citizens, together with the free transportation of goods, services and capital. For realizing the mobility of its citizens each country creates ...

The development concept of the regional tourist cluster through creation of the recreational territories of regional and international significance has been set forth. The model of the regional tourist cluster in the Euro-Arctic region (the Murmansk region of Russia) has been elaborated. The worked out model enables to improve the effectiveness of using of the tourist –recreational potential of the region while stimulating development of other sectors.

Managerial factors with a particular influence on the exploitation technologies of cattle for meat and milk are largely dependent on the exploitation systems implemented in the farms, because the rigorous compliance of the farm activities contributes to the formation of conditional reflexes regarding the rest, feeding and drinking of the cattle. A particularly important role is played by the nutrition of pregnant females who in the last three weeks of gestation will be fed differently depending on the expected max...

The regularities of the evolution of the theory of sustainable socio-economic development of regions in Russia and foreign countries are revealed. It is concluded that the foundation of the modern theory of sustainable regional development of foreign countries is the fundamental provisions of neoclassical, neo-Keynesian and institutional theory, as well as spatial economics. They are the base of highly developed countries’ regional policies, aimed at ensuring sustainable, balanced social and economic development o...

Integration is an integral feature of the modern world and one of the main consequences of globalization. The scientific substantiation of integration remains relevant when considering the impact of integration projects on the national and regional innovative ecosystem interaction leading to new industries development. The paper considers the category of “utility” and a complex of factor values as a tool for estimation of their integration effects. They include economic indicators of economic growth stabilization,...

The article investigates the problem of influence of processes of globalization and transformation on the world financial and credit system. Discusses is the main directions and trends of the transformation process, as well as the nature and consequences of globalization. It reveals the positive and negative aspects of globalization in the economy and specifically in the financial sector.

The governments of all countries are pressing towards improving of the welfare of their citizens. The high level of welfare demonstrates the right direction and good ongoing socio-economic policy. For many decades, welfare has been evaluated mainly in terms of economic factors, with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the main metric for gauging the quality of people’s lives. Researchers are seeking to assess more precisely the welfare of the population, avoiding usual economic indicators. The interest in alternat...

The basic reasons of destruction of capitalism dealt with in this article on samples of K.Marx’s, W.Sombart’s, P.Sorokin’s, J. Schumpeter’s and other economist’s texts: (1) the actions of the proletariat, the problems of capital accumulation, flow of economic resources (Karl Marx), (2) the anthropological foundation (Werner Sombart), (3) withering away of the entrepreneur function, destruction of the institutional structure and the social base of capitalism, decrease of economic stimulus to the labour (Josef Schum...

The interdependence of spatial structure and economic development is gaining momentum in the current period when there is competition between the regions of Europe based on uneven economic development and growth. Clusters therefore become a new way of addressing the economic growth of the regions, unemployment and financial stability, which is moving towards a new organization of the economic area. Clusters are seen as one of the means of increasing innovation performance, of increased competitiveness of enterpris...

In last years, European Union countries increase requirements for barrier-free accessibility of the environment. Such environment adaptation has become almost a matter of course in current needs. Slovakia as a country remains poor in the field of such accessibility. Physically disabled people represent in tourism small segment, which have not received sufficient attention yet. On the other hand, their participation in tourism field has a growing tendency from a development point of view. Significantly, proportion ...

The present research paper deals with the problem for determining the optimal positioning of units in logistics system aiming the minimization of the transportation costs for providing communication between the units. For the purposes of the research a logistics system is treated as relatively stable set of units (structural and/or functional subunits of the company but also suppliers, consumers and logistical mediators) connected to each other and united in one management of the logistical process for realizing t...

Continuous technical progress, nature being constantly enslaved by human, industrialization, the Earth's drastically changed surface have caused a global ecological crisis. Among the primary global environmental problems there is environmental pollution, water pollution with industrial, agricultural and domestic waste, soil degradation, deforestation, loss of biodiversity. The planet overpopulation leads to unsustainable use of natural resources and their depletion. Most methods of producing energy cause varying d...

Creative tourism as part of the global creative economy has shown a significant increase in the world. However, Slovakia falls considerably behind these trends. The aim of the study is to analyse the current state of demand for creative tourism in Slovakia. In the paper we define creative tourism from supply and demand perspective and its growing importance for destinations as well as visitors. We characterize preferences and interest of Slovak tourists in domestic creative tourism activities, we define creativity...

Tourism in rural areas in Poland in the years 1999-2016 was an important element of socio-economic and cultural life. The aim of the study is to present tourism in rural are-as in Poland in the years 1999-2016. The following research methods were used: analy-sis of historical sources, synthesis, induction, deduction, and a comparative method. There was significant development of tourism in rural communities in Poland in the period from 1999-2016. Rural tourism was a major element in the life of country dwell-ers. ...

In considering the issue of coordination between monetary policy and fiscal policy, or a lack of it, one has to take account of the so-called zero lower bound on nominal interest rates, also known as a zero-bound (ZLB) problem. The problem basically is that nominal interest rates cannot drop below zero. Many economists argue that a near-zero interest rate encourages fiscal stimulation that certainly has influence on the type of decisions made by the central bank. Some studies point to higher effectiveness of fisca...

The concept of social entrepreneurship is related with entrepreneurial projects that are based on principles of social, economic and environmentally sustainable business. Social entrepreneurs are committed to resolving different socio-economic problems through projects based on social innovations. The realised profits are entirely or partially reinvested in the community. Social entrepreneurship is a significant part of the social economy. In the EU, there are 2 million social economy enterprises and organisations...

The article deals with the actual labor market problem of creating an effective recruitment mechanism. It presents the key parameters of recruitment strategies. The best solutions of the problemar are considered in the context of asymmetric information. The article presents alternative models of recruitment, the principal-agent problem in each type of model and considers the key features of each agent’s behavior. In addition the opportunities of optimal contract between recruiter and employer and the optimal compe...

Nowadays we are witnessing the growing proliferation of social media in almost every sphere of our lives – from economics, to politics, society and education. Undoubtedly, the new opportunities of various social media applications such as social networking sites, collaborative projects, blogs, wikis, content communities, forums, etc., have their impact on educational process for both teachers and students. The main goal of this research is to identify some notable trends, opportunities and limitations regarding th...

Educational tourism, one of the fastest-growing tourism sectors in the world, can be developed in different areas that are characterised by accessibility and possess educational tourism resources. In order to efficiently invest in educational tourism, it is necessary to take into account economic peculiarities of a certain area. The research is aimed at constructing an economic portrait of the potential inbound educational destination ‘a modern Russian medium-sized urban area’, which has not yet received a thoroug...

The quality of live is an interesting and important social topic but to measure the life quality is currently a complicated issue. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is a measure of a country’s economic output that accounts for population. It tells you how prosperous a country feels to each of its citizens. However, it is not a complete measure of economic welfare. The Human development index (HDI) was created with a goal to emphasize that not only economic growth but also people and their abilities could be ...

In general, the development of tourism is dependent on the presence of tourist (natural, cultural, specialist) attractions as well as on the state of tourist infrastructure (accom-modation, catering, accompanying and transport infrastructure). Global environmental problems are usually marginalised or entirely overlooked at the stage when tourist offer-ings are developed. The purpose of the research is to identify and define the role of ma-jor global environmental problems in the development of tourism. The researc...

Intensive growth of agricultural production caused on the one hand implementation, adopted in 2010 a Food Security Doctrine of Russia, on the other hand, a ban on the import of food products from several Western countries, as a response to imposed against Russia sanctions, has highlighted the need for research and forecasting of development of agroindustrial complex. In the world in general and in Russia in particular, has accumulated substantial experience in building predictive models of agricultural development...

Tourism has an advantageous multiplier effect and severs as an accelerator of the social-economic development. Using a method of a component analysis the most significant indexes for differentiation of territory of Republic Tatarstan with purposes of recreation and tourism were detected. Map - models were constructed and by their superposition the integrated map of a recreational potential of Tatar Republic was obtained and the attractive areas for rest and tourism were detected. Using a method of a component anal...

Responsible implementation of environmental policies in sustainable development must have as objectives activities gentle with the environment, sustainable planning of the livestock breeding and exploitation sector. It is found that around animal farms there are unused landfills that are sources of pollution for soil, air and water. Analyzing the water sources we found their pollution with organic substances, nitrates and ammonium, and the pH was very close to the upper limit admitted. The quantities of pollutants...

With this article attempts to determine the impact of instruments reflecting regional differences between individual spatially limited territories. The assessment of the influence of instruments measuring socio-economic development is one of the main reasons for optimizing the process of introducing policies for better governance in administrative territorial units. The purpose of the study is to analyze the impact of the instruments which reflectings the effectiveness of the policies undertaken for the management...

The current policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic is aimed to large-scale expansion of the resource base in the region, development of economic sectors and construction of infrastructure facilities. The implementation of these ambitious projects requires recruitment of qualified labor resources to the region and attractive social and labor conditions. In the article, the current state of the socio-labor sphere of the northern region is considered on the example of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) as one of...

The article explores the problem of optimising university training structure to increase focus on the labour market. The proposed solution is constructed using a deterministic approach in which the following vectors are formed: the phase vector, whose coordinates are the values of the parameters describing the training process in higher education institutions at a certain fixed point in time; the controlling action vector (control vector) that allows influencing (by means of funding, the school-leaving exam score ...

The paper deals with the competitiveness of Slovak spa facilities and partly also with the competitiveness between Slovak and Hungarian spas. The main aim of the paper is to process and analyze the competitiveness in Slovak spa facilities through the use of all available information. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part summarizes the theoretical background of the examined issue; it’s focused on theoretical knowledge about tourism, spa tourism and balneology. It also deals with the theoretical kno...

In the concept of sustainable development, the tourism industry has accepted the notion of sustainable tourism. To respond to the central idea underpinning sustainable development, namely to protect natural resources, the article proposes solutions for the rational management of freshwater resources. Ensuring comfort standards in tourist accommodation units involves consuming considerable amounts of water. Total water consumption can be diminished by implementing storage and use solutions of rainwater. The Romania...

Social capital is an important prerequisite for regional development, and it influences economic growth and development of a region. In last decades, public involvement in decision making became the main attribute of regional and community planning, which follows one of the basic social capital characteristics. Social capital is a connector among individual actors, it makes reaching common goals possible in a more efficient manner. It incorporates social organization attributes such as relationships, interactions ...

In the article is briefly discussed the question of development of system of regional governance by smoothing of spatial polarization in the region on the basis of implementation of infrastructure projects (as an infrastructure objects are considered hotel businesses in republic of Tatarstan and Mari El republic). Has been carried out the scenery forecasting of tendencies of regions’ development in the conditions of spatial polarization smoothing management on the basis of a diversification of hotel business in Ta...

Latvia is one of the European Union (EU) Member States being rich in bioresources. In terms of agricultural land area per capita, Latvia ranks third in the EU, while in terms of forest area per capita, Latvia ranks fourth. Bioeconomy industries may be theoretically divided into several groups: primary biomass production; biomass processing by mainly bioresource-based industries; biomass processing by industries, the bioresources of which compete with other kinds of raw materials; recycling of bio-products and wate...

Security is one of the basic human needs. Without the formation of a secure social and economic system, a person cannot fully realize his need for security. We considered various definitions of security. Our objective was to examine a system of concepts that are close to the notion of security – danger, risk, threat, stability, vulnerability, reliability, harm, damage, loss, sustainable development. Firstly, the interaction of these concepts was presented graphically. Secondly, the authors have proposed a new conc...

The paper presents the results of a quantitative research, based on a questionnaire, study of the opinion of the hospitality industry organizations in Romania regarding the necessity to develop a food safety management system (SMSA), designed according to the requirements of the international ISO standards, and the continuation of the investments for the implementation and its certification. After a decade of applicability of the ISO 22000: 2005 standard, there was a remarkable success in Romania regarding the evo...

The paper presents results of studies devoted to assess the role of social capital and its relation to innovations, including social innovations, and development, particularly in rural areas. As an example of an indicator or category of social capital and innovation, the development of cooperatives in rural areas has been evaluated. Moreover, the benefits (i.e. for farmers, consumers and society) of rural, especially agricultural, cooperatives are estimated. Besides, the nature and impact of state support for agri...

The article considers the organizational and economic aspects of the problem of municipal solid waste (MSW)’s formation and placement. This problem becomes more and more relevant for the cities of Russia including the Sverdlovsk region. Referring to foreign experience, we demonstrate the necessity to form an effective MSW’s management system in Russia via required reforming based on the laws and regulations. Comparison of the existing options for MSW elimination shows that the cheapest but inefficient option from ...

The development of the modern economy is multifaceted. Apart from quantitative changes, it continuously experiences structural transformations. One significant trend in these transformations is the increase in the share of services in the total GDP produced[1, Volkova]. Despite the wide variety of views on the urgent necessity of fast-paced development of the economy’s industrial sector[3, Petrov, Karpova, Khoreva], it must be noted that economic analysis can be normative or positive. From the perspective of norma...

The paper aims to analyze the marketing mix in the technical university education services. The most important particularities about the higher education services are about the marketing mix. Regardless of the field, it builds on the basis of the four traditional elements: product, price, placement and promotion. In the case of educational services, the marketing mix expands with three other elements: people, processes and physical evidence. All the elements of the marketing mix are interdependent. The people are ...

HR segment belongs to the largest and most complicated part of company activities. It used to be called personnel dpt. Current HR plays a professional role in recruitment, hiring, adaptation, training and in assessment of employees´ performance. This article deals with these issues. The development requires permanent improvement of employees´ habits and abilities. Required training and education of employees is inevitable. The company income depends on its personnel qualifications, on customers´ opinions, on an ov...

The article proposes the indicative system of sustainable development of the region that contains thirty indicators grouped into ten projections (macroeconomic sta-bility, industrial development, food development, energy development, financial sus-tainability, personnel development, innovative development, social development, envi-ronmental development and economic development). Each of the projections has three indicators. We have chosen threshold value for each indicator. The choice of threshold value was made f...

The objective of the study is an adaptation of the survey method for the preliminary evaluation of the Rural Development Program (RDP) in short-term, when the quantitative data for the period is not yet available. A survey of agricultural holdings and enterprises (i.e., on-line questionnaires with an e-mail notification) was therefore designed, equally targeting the units supported and non-supported by the Program. The survey covered all regions of Latvia, with a total of 867 responses obtained. The responses were...

International labor migration significantly impacts on the process of economic integration for developed labor markets. Labor migration on the territory of countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States is directed to big labor markets in Russia and Kazakhstan. In this article we describe a model, that takes into account the feedback of average salaries defined by the supply of labor resources, affecting migration processes between countries of origin and destination. The model takes into account the influenc...

Modern economy is characterized by significant strengthening of integration processes caused by the deepening of relations between countries, international trade liberalization, scientific and technological progress, development of productive forces and the deepening of international labor division. This results in the formation of regional associations, which are evolving progressively into independent centers of the world economy. The article highlights various aspects of the integration processes in the common ...

The relevance of this study is due to the need to improve the methods of industrial policy formation.The development of industrial policy is the area of strategic management of the state and economic entities. The application of mechanisms and instruments of industrial policy should be based on the principles of regulation, coordination, promotion of the most priority areas of activity. Due to the limited resources of any kind, as well as the type of tasks to be solved, the problem of selecting priority options co...

The article describes the features of personnel policy formation of an educational institution. The essence of the personnel policy work with the staff corresponds to the concept of educational establishment, ie the personnel policy of any educational institution – it is an integral part of the strategic policy oriented organization. Personnel policy is a powerful strategic tool for the staff of the organization management system.