The Bak–Sneppen model of co-evolution is used to derive synthetic time series with a priori specified fractal dimension (or Hurst exponent) through a mixing of processes in various lattice dimensions. Both theoretical and numerical analyses concern the avalanches at the critical threshold and...

The salience of the international purchasing office (IPO) in the management of international sourcing activities of multinational corporations (MNCs) has steadily increased, in developed and emerging economies, since the first adoption of this supply chain strategy in the 1980s. The aim of this...

The article aims to give an overview of the main models in the spin-off research field and to streamline further research in this domain. The main evolution and performance models known in literature will be analysed. The evolution models will be discussed in increasing order of complexity....

As information technology has advanced, people are turning to electronic media more frequently for communication, and social relationships are increasingly found on online channels. However, there is very limited knowledge about the actual evolution of the online social networks. In this paper,...

The article aims to give an overview of the main models in the spin-off research field. The main evolution models known in literature will be analyzed. The evolution models will be discussed in increasing order of complexity. However, the existing models will prove to be inadequate to reflect...

The context of competitiveness can be defined as a set of institutions, policies and factors which, in a particular economy, determine the volume of national productivity and the level of economic well-being of the population. In brief, competition reflects the capacity of a national economy to...

The paper is the first part of the study which is devoted to the analysis of the macroeconomic trends in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Armenia in the period 1995–2011 and the development of the aggregated macroeconometric models of the national economies of these two countries. We...

The article is devoted to the basic theory for the origin of the financial and economic crises and the factors of their forming. Presents the main features of the consumer society in the world and in Ukraine, as well as the influence of the global financial-economic crisis on the development of...

The main goal of the article lies in statistical assessment of influence of globalisation upon the growth of the national economy and upon the level of economic security of the state. The author justifies expediency of a formalised expression of globalisation through sub-index of economic...

The article studies issues of the degree of openness of public systems under conditions of modern globalisation. It considers interaction of international economic subjects, formation of interrelations and inevitability of transition to a new more progressive model of economic development. I...