Management in complex social and economics networks includes elements of cooperative behavior or full cooperation between agents involved in decision making process. The most appropriate mathematical tool for modeling in this case is the mathematical theory of cooperative games. Unfortunately...

There are three important aspects which must be taken into account when the problem of stability of long-range cooperative agreements is investigated: time-consistency (dynamic stability) of the cooperative agreements,strategic stability and irrational behavior proofness. Timeconsistency (TC)...

Game-theory approach is widely used in investigations of controlled systems in different fields of management. This is due to the universality of the games theory techniques and, in particular, principles of optimality. Implementation of an optimality principle in a game gains the optimal...

In this paper we attempt to classify Russian journals in economics and related disciplines for their scientific significance. We show that currently used criteria, such as a journal's presence in the Higher Attestation Committee's list of journals and the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI)...

The paper presents the results of a comparative study of human resource management peculiarities in two groups of knowledge-intensive firms: those working in IT field and in advertising/ PR field. 100 Russian medium size enterprises were the object of research. The questionnaire made on the...

This report aims to build conceptual foundations of the development of future general theory of sales. The propositions on fundamentally new role of sales in economic mechanism of modern market economy are put forward and proved. An empirical, theoretical and methodological analysis of the role...

In this paper the problems of formation and development of marketing channel management theory are considered. The definition and components of marketing channels are presented. Marketing channel management process and key management decisions are described. The major stages of marketing channel...

The research examines whether centralized supply chain decisionmaking within the firm plays a role in how the firm transforms investments in process research and development (R&D) into financial performance. This transformation includes the process investment - financial performance chain, which...

The results of survey of specific sets of deliberate intra-firm activities called intra-firm orientations are discussed in current research paper. The authors distinguish entrepreneurial orientation, change orientation and knowledge orientation. Factor analysis and structure equation modelling...

The paper examines the preconditions of developing a coordination mechanism for the relationship management process with partners on industrial markets. It contains indepth analysis of its structure, main characteristics and tools. Coordination mechanisms for the relationship management process...