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The article studies experience of using expert methods in undergraduate political science programs. The author pays special attention to expert assessments algorithms development in conditions as close as possible to real political campaigns. The article describes experience of organizing expert assessments by students of the State University of Management within the framework of the educational project of a socio-political situation in a city in the context of municipal elections, implemented in the process of studying such disciplines as Methods of Political Science Research and Political Analysis. The key factors of successful expert methods application in educational process include the approach to the experts selection, their informational and organizational-methodological preparation for work, and strict adherence to the prescribed algorithms in the course of expertise.

The article studies the way to develop an innovative model of the Russian economy by organizing venture capital investment. The purpose of the study is to analyze structural changes in the venture investment mechanism in Russia that have been occurring against the background of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine since February 24, 2022. The objectives of the study include identifying the role and significance of venture capital in the Russian economy transformations. The author used the methods of statistical, financial, dialectical and logical analysis. The system approach is fundamental, as it allowed to identify all the essential characteristics of structural changes in venture investment mechanism in the changed economic environment. The time period of the study is 2017–2022. The study analyzes the data from international organizations, analytical centers, mass media, and official sources. A review of the literature has been made and various approaches of scientific research considered. The main functions of venture capital have been highlighted and sources of its formation by directions given, and differences in the regulatory framework governing the Russian and other countries’ venture capital industry identified.

The domestic sphere of heat supply, which is currently in decline due to the critical technical condition of Russia’s heat sector, requires measures to modernize it. It is necessary to strive for innovative development of the sector. The introduction of innovations can significantly accelerate the modernization processes, as well as ensure the fulfillment of environmental safety property of heat supply, that is, the ability to influence the reduction of environmental damage to the environment during the operation of heat supply facilities. The main entity implementing modernization processes and innovative solutions in heat supply systems is a unified heat supplying organization, which is legally assigned the function of strategic development of the heat supply system in its subordinate territory. The issues of modernization and innovative development of heat supply systems involve the need for significant investments in these processes. In this regard, the author’s approach to assessing the effectiveness of introducing innovations into a single heat supply organization and the heat supply system assigned to it has been formed using criteria that allow jointly assessing both economic efficiency and environmental and social effects of decisions taken and innovations implemented.

The implementation of strategic priorities of domestic enterprises digital transformation actualizes the tasks of employee engagement in this process. It necessitates the development of methodological approaches to the study of employee engagement in strategic decision-making to improve the quality of processes and production activities of the enterprise. The purpose of the study is to present the results of research on methodological approaches development that reveal the content and features of employee engagement management in the activities of the enterprise. The research methodology includes logical substantiation of essence of the processes under study, data from scientific and analytical publications on the problem under consideration. In the course of the research interrelation between the problems of ensuring employee engagement and leadership of enterprise management has been revealed, and criteria for evaluating the actions of different categories of personnel in ensuring and increasing employee engagement developed. Active and passive approaches to involvement management determining interests of managers and employees and their influence on business results and organizational changes have been identified. The model of employee engagement in enterprise’s activities has been created considering the content of digital transformation processes, application of which allows motivating personnel to manifest digital initiatives and participate in the activities of project teams. The conclusions obtained by the authors are of a theoretical and applied nature. They will contribute to development of scientifically based approaches to developing a strategy for managing employee engagement in digital transformation processes. The results of the research can be useful to scientists and practitioners dealing with the problems of human resource management in innovations and digital standards of industrial enterprises implementation.

The article studies importance of marketing analysis of electric power industry on the example the Ural Federal District. A brief characteristic of the region under consideration has been given and prevailing branches of specialization and territories of their location reflected. Electricity consumption indicators in dynamics for the decade (2012–2022) for all groups of consumers in the region (industrial consumers, population, non-industrial consumers, budgetary consumers, and agricultural producers) have been analyzed, and electricity consumption structure considered, i.e. electricity shares that fall on each group of consumers have been revealed. Forecasts of electricity consumption have been made and dynamics of such an important indicator as electricity intensity of gross regional product analyzed. Dynamics of electricity tariffs for urban and rural population, non-industrial consumers, as well as for large and small industrial enterprises, has been analyzed. Consumers’ ability to pay for electricity has been studied by identifying the share of electricity costs in expenditures of households and enterprises of different energy intensity structure. The indebtedness of consumers to guaranteeing suppliers and power grid companies has been given. Effective measures to combat the indebtedness of some large guaranteeing suppliers from the district under consideration have been analyzed.

An organization’s management system plays an important role in the activities of enterprises. In the context of changes in the production sector, it is necessary to adapt and modernize management system to maintain a company’s competitiveness, and it explains the relevance of the research topic. Without periodic research, analyzing trends and opportunities in markets where business activities are conducted, it is impossible to form an effective management model. Insider model of company organization and German company BASF were chosen for the study. The purpose of the study is to define the concept of management system, analyze and characterize insider management model and trace its features in the BASF management system. Among the research objectives are the following: to summarize, analyze and form the characteristics of the German management system, consider the BASF management system and trace the features of the German model in it. Such research methods as synthesis, analysis, structuring, and deduction have been used in the article. The study concludes that BASF management structure contains features of insider management model (social orientation, focus on high-quality products, implementation and improvement of technological developments, use of modernized management methods, and highly qualified personnel).

The article studies theory and practice of relationship marketing development based on the study of theoretical models’ evolution that conceptualize relationship marketing to a certain extent, taking it beyond traditional marketing complex. Further development takes place considering modern approaches to building relationships between a supplier of goods and services with consumers and partners in the context of further digitalization and “internetization” of business communications, transformation of CRM into CMR strategies of companies, network forms of business organization development, and transition from a product-centric to a client-centric structure. The prospects for relationship marketing development aimed at overcoming risks of new forms of organization, collaboration of business structures and strengthening their advantages, affirmation of consumer’s role as a direct participant in the creation of consumer value in consumer markets transformation, as well as wide spread of business ecosystems integrating the advantages of virtual business and a network form of organization have been determined, opening new opportunities for expanding collaborative innovations and obtaining a synergistic effect as a result of creating additional consumer value and building long-term multilateral relations.

The article studies great importance of livestock products for human body and considers the types of fodder used in animal feeding. The data on ten leading regions in mixed fodder production (Belgorod region, Voronezh region, Chelyabinsk region, Tambov region, Krasnodar region, Leningrad region, Republic of Mordovia, Kursk region, Stavropol region, Penza region) has been given. The historical aspect of mixed fodder production in Russia has been presented and advantage of mini-mills in increasing the volume of mixed fodder production shown. The methodical approach to estimating economic expediency of purchase and use of mixed fodders for animal feeding has been offered and necessity of detailed economic calculations on each concrete variant of purchased mixed fodders use noted. Possible variants of mini-feed mills location have been highlighted considering advanced mini-feed mills of various capacities available in the domestic market.

The article studies main models for compiling organizational cost of scientific-intensive enterprises used in rocket and space industry. Practical application of the most important value configurations analysis has been carried out, as well as analysis of economic activity. The implementation potential of the most promising algorithms of value creation in knowledge-intensive enterprises of the Russian Federation has been assessed. The “Introduction” describes the latest trends in intangible asset management development. The “Research Methods” describes three configurations of value creation (chain, workshop, network) in detail. The “Research Results” describes current architecture of Roscosmos (Porter value chain and Osterwalder business model). In conclusion, the results of the work done have been summarized: relevance of these tools application and what model is best for Roscosmos to move to.

The article substantiates the relevance of state support for critical imports in modern conditions of political and economic restrictions. The current economic and political conditions of Russia’s development introduce significant business risks when concluding import contracts for importing critical goods and implementing additional supportive measures for importers of those goods that are duly recognized as critically important for the country’s economic development. As a result of the conducted research the conclusion about the lack of theoretical approaches to the understanding of critical imports and normative fixation of the sought concept has been made. Based on the analysis of regulatory legal acts of the Eurasian Economic Union and federal legislation of Russia, the system of support for critical imports at the supranational level and the level of the Russian Federation has been described. The commodity structure of the critical imported products lists has been analyzed. On the basis of them the conclusion about the large-scale dependence of the Russian Federation on foreign-made goods has been made. The necessity of state support of insurance of advance payments for imports of critical goods has been assessed and the algorithm of state support of advance payments insurance for critical goods imports described. The conclusion about the need for a comprehensive approach to support critical imports has been formulated and the one of the possible tools for its implementation proposed.

The article presents study results of methodologies for assigning indices and ESG rating, ESG ranking by the largest Russian rating agencies: Analytical Credit Rating Agency, National Rating Agency, Expert RA JSC, and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Growth of negative impact on the environment and aggravation of social and corporate problems have been outlined as relevance reasons of the issue. Theoretical bases of three key blocks (ecology (E), society (S), corporate governance (G)) have been stated. Known rating scales for assessing the level of sustainable development of Russian enterprises have been analyzed and distinctive features found. The influence of a company’s position in the sustainable development rating on construction of long-term trusting relations of the organization with investors, counterparties, consumers, staff, mass media, and expert community, as well as public authorities has been emphasized. As a result of the research work the authors have proposed their own methodology for assigning ESG ratings that can serve as a basis for generalizing all the technologies available in the market to assess companies’ compliance with the ESG agenda.

The subject of this study is an important part of the latest terminology of the modern management sphere, namely, anglicisms. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of anglicisms as an effective means of adapting participants in management processes in Russia to modern economic conditions. On the example of about 100 business terms of English origin, the article gives a classification of anglicisms according to structure, methods of formation, frequency of use and areas of application in management, provides a decoding of the meanings of individual components of borrowings, which contributes to the best understanding and use of business management terminology by specialists. Anglicisms originally entered the Russian language to denote concepts and phenomena completely new to the Russian reality, their emergence, integration into the vocabulary of the Russian language and active use seem to be an inevitable process that meets the communicative needs of society. Due to their high communicative significance, anglicisms from business sphere have firmly entered the Russian lexicon and are widely used in it.

Transformations in socio-economic space affect functioning of entrepreneurial activity, leading to a change in the configuration of business processes. In the context of increasing complexity of external environment and digitalization, subjects must ensure the activities effectiveness based on supply chains optimization. Entities are required to use progressive methods of supply chain management. The purpose of the study is to analyze main optimization models in supply chain management (SCM) to determine progressive ways to improve them. The issues of SCM have been worked out, models of their optimization considered and suggestions for their improvement made. Theoretical analysis and generalization of information that allow to substantiate the SCM optimization models’ apparatus (SCOR, DCOR, CCOR) act as a methodological basis. As a result, it is proposed to focus on possibilities of progressive supply chain management, which make it possible to use information technologies to work through a large array of data and continuously obtain values for indicators, contributing to the development of models for optimizing logistics operations and processes in the SCM. The developments obtained are planned to be used for the development of practical models for optimizing enterprises’ supply chains.

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The Russian penitentiary system is a large diversified industry with a total annual output of goods, works and services worth more than 30 billion rubles. The process of integrating such a manufacturer into the national digital economic system requires a special set of tools, one of which, in the author’s opinion, is a smart contract. The object of the study is the sphere of labor adaptation of convicts, subject is digital tools to improve efficiency of production processes and relations in the penitentiary system. The article studies the use of smart contracts as one of the promising directions for improving economic activity of correctional institutions and optimizing the contracting system. As a result of the study, the author concluded that it is advisable to develop smart contracts as a tool to strengthen and develop economic potential of the penitentiary system, and also suggested possible directions of its practical application.  

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The purpose of the article is to analyze the specifics of financing investment projects in the IT sector of the Russian economy. As part of the paper’s research objectives systemic aspects and peculiarities of investment in the IT sphere, state of the Russian IT market, and trends in its development have been considered. IT investment types and characteristics have been analyzed. Research methods include data systematization and generalization on the topics of modern research on the peculiarities of financing investment projects in the IT sector of the Russian economy. The developed target mechanism allows to consider system aspects of investment and improve validity of the most effective option choice for the IT sphere, which is a new scientific result obtained by the author. Based on the proposed sequence of using the target mechanism, it is possible to develop effective algorithms for decision-making on investment in the IT sphere.

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The article identifies and analyzes main determinants of the 21st century world community system global crisis from the perspective of the systems and self-organization theories. The study analyzes specifics of the world community as a complex social dissipative system functioning and development. Main determinants of the world community modern system entry into the bifurcation zone have been identified and analyzed. A comparative analysis of expert forecasts of trends in the 21st century world community system development, presented in the works of V.I. Vernadsky, N.N. Moiseev, S. Huntington, D.L. Meadows, M. Wackernagel, T. Malthus and neo-Malthusians, and United Nations experts, has been carried out. As a result of the study, the conclusions about possible scenarios for developing the 21st century world community system in the bifurcation zone have been formulated.

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