The paper is devoted to the influence of the social networks on entrance to foreign markets of Russian entrepreneurial firms. Although the majority of researchers assume that social networks play a key role in the process of internationalization of small and medium enterprises, the authors made...

Demand by growing ownerrun SMEs for specialized management knowledge is resolved primarily through the separation of ownership and control, using top management labor market and agency contracts. Under certain environmental institutional conditions, owners of Russian SMEs face difficulties...

The transition to a knowledge economy is changing the nature of organizations and staff working for them. Focused on the creation, preservation and reproduction of knowledge companies increasingly rely on knowledge workers. Qualitative changes in the internal environment of organizations and...

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...

Full text in Russian. Executive summary in English is available at pp. 43.

Full text in Russian. Executive summary in English is available at pp.37.