Micro-enterprises in Russia exist for a long time, but have acquired an official status only in 2008. What is the difference between micro- companies and economic operators of other types, what are their demographic characteristics - these research questions are the subject of this article....

In this paper we examine determinants of the quality of secondary education for making informed policy decisions at the levels of student / family, school, country's education system institutions and macroeconomic indicators. The quality of education is estimated by the outcomes of the latest...

In this paper, the prevalent approaches towards defining and measuring brand equity are discussed and systemized. The resulting classification allows matching particular types of brand metrics with coherent approaches to defining brand equity, which contributes to the convenience of making and...

In this work, disruptive innovation theory is applied to studying multi-sided platforms (MSPs). It is argued that a successful MSP is one that is capable of making products, which are likely to disrupt the current market. The authors develop a mechanism by which it is possible to determine the...

We asked the participants of our controlled experiment to solve the Newsboy Problem. In this work we describe the design of the experiment. We analyze results of the experiment and emphasize the difference between the theoretical solution and the solution chosen by our subjects. We test sever-al...

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The work is dedicated to insufficiently known of interaction among motivation, stimulating system and organizational culture system. In quested data from the personnel of the 13th companies of St. Petersburg & Moscow was analyzed. The typology of organizational culture was established with the...

One of the basic issues in the field of corporate governance is the choice of the most adequate national model in conditions of globalization of modern economy. The comparative analysis of national models of corporate governance allows defining the basic advantages (costs) which are necessary...

The problem of formation of effective commands is actual now as its decision allows, using rather small investments to waken motivation and actively to use a professional-personal potential of employees for the organizational purposes achievement, thus forming and supporting at employees...