Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1994-2540 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1956 (Online)


Management

Formal Designing as a Feature of the Russian Model of the Corporate Governance

The article describes the features of the corporate management mod‑ el in Russia, which is appropriate for the contemporary situation. The author gives the corporate management characteristics according to the following aspects: key participants, structure of share holding, mechanism of interaction between key participants, the board of directors, legitimate frameworks, requirements of the data disclosure for corporations. The author makes a conclusion about a formal construction of the corporate management in the majority of the companies.

The Human Culture Aspect in a Process of Commercial Banks Restructuring

The article is devoted to the processes of commercial banks restructuring. It identifies the vital reasons for the restructure processes in different forms. The author makes a detailed analysis of the influence of the human factor and culture on the restructure process in the forms of mergers and engrossments. There are given the examples of the consequences of the cultural variants implementation in the process of restructure. The basic reasons of the failures in the process of restructure are given in the article.

Aspects of the Economic Independence Forming in the Regions of Russia

The article deals with the problem of economic independence forming of the regions considering such forms of its being as selfdetermination, self-governance, and self-realization. Moreover, it is proved that the economic independence creates the possibility of unlimited development of the productive forces and improvement of the industrial relations.

Special Features of the Municipal Budgets Carrying out in 2008-2009

The article is devoted to the problems of forming and carrying out the municipal budgets under the crisis conditions. The author analyses the problem aspects of carrying out local budgets in 2008-2009, and possible measures of increasing the budget incomes on the municipal level. The opinion about the necessity to cut down a part of the subject inter-budget transfers in these budgets, is given in the article. The author shows the analysis of the budget incomes structure of the municipal district of Saratov city.

Certification as a Tool of Production Quality Improvement

The paper deals with questions of the influence of certification on production quality, certification types, features of certification in Russia, models of third-party certification.

Strategic Marketing Approach to Management of Innovation Activity of Industrial Enterprises

The basic adaptation mechanisms of industrial enterprises to modern market conditions are identified and analyzed. The main factors that determine competitive advantages of products of manufacturing and technical purposes in the analyzed markets are examined. Method of determining the compliance of product range update policy of manufacturers to dynamically changing market requirements is suggested.

Features of the «Principal–Agent» Relations or «Insider Capitalism» in the Corporate Governance of the Russian Enterprises

The article is devoted features of relations of the principal – the agent in the Russian corporate governance. Privatization processes have generated corporate governance model in Russia, representing «insider capitalism» in which as it is possible to assume, the contradiction between proprietors and managers is reduced to a minimum.

Formation of innovative culture of an organization

The paper is devoted to problems of formation of innovative culture, the culture of continuous training and changes, which is a necessary element of a self-training organization. Characteristics and functions of innovative culture are treated, which support permanent innovations and provide internal integration and long-term external adaptation of an organization. Characteristics of the personnel of an innovative organization and its internal and external competences are formulated.

Platinum group metals market factor analysis and modeling of its development directions

Introduction. The first part of the paper reveals the concept and features of platinum group metals. According to the complex of considered parameters of each platinum group metals, including the market volume in physical and value terms, we distinguish three major (palladium, platinum, rhodium) and two minor (iridium, ruthenium) metals. For this research, the markets of five platinum group metals are identified as the object for factor analysis. Theoretical analysis.

Hierarchical system of commercial banks ranking

Introduction. The main objective of the study is to develop economic and mathematical tools for constructing a rating barometer of Russian commercial banks according to the level of sustainability in a long term view using a hierarchical decision-making structure. Theoretical analysis. The method of commercial banks’ integral ranking is based on a system of hierarchical analysis. The methodology is based on ranking indicators and dividing them into subgroups.

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