This policy paper highlights key theoretical issues related to the possibility of competition in provision of health care services and provides their illustrations for Russian health care system. Executive summary is available at pp. 48.

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 objective of this research is to test multifaceted measurement of the innovation activities of companies based on “Innovation Radar†methodology. The authors conducted both qualitative and quantitative studies: first, the methodology was assessed during fifteen in-depth interviews...

The results of survey of specific sets of deliberate intra-firm activities called intra-firm orientations are discussed. The authors distinguish between entrepreneurial orientation, change orientation and knowledge orientation. Factor analysis and structure equation modelling methods are used to...

The research provides a comprehensive review of research on outsourcing from a variety of research domains and traditions. The received perspective on explaining outsourcing of transaction cost economics is supplemented fi rst with the resource-based view of the fi rm and second with the...

The article examines the optimal production output decisions problem in case of shift work and import opportunities over finite and infinite horizons in case the firm does not know the exact demand (informational uncertainty of demand). We develop the optimal production output strategy, which...

Contemporary literature posits that knowledge workers differ significantly from other employees by their structure of motives. However, there are too few empirical studies to support this idea. This paper presents results of an empirical study aimed to discover what motives are most important...

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...