The paper reports on the importance of customer relationships in industrial markets. Our study investigates the way customer relationships increase competitiveness and effective differentiation of industrial firms. The study contributed to the analysis of relationship value creation mechanism...

The talk examines the conditions of oil production in pre-revolutionary Russia, the structure of oil-producing and refining firms is identified, the conditions of petroleum products sales in the late XIXth - early XXth cen-turies are characterized. The talk is based on the material of office...

This working paper presents methodology for matched employer-employees panel data collection in Russian industrial enterprises. It summarizes the results of the most important Russian and international labor market research based on matched data analysis; introduces sampling procedures and...

This paper presents results from research into growth factors of Russian entrepreneurial firms. The study was based on the data collected by the EBRD during Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) in 2005. From an analysis of 240 Russian firms we suggest factors from the...

The aim of the paper is to contribute to the understanding on the level of strategic maturity of Russian companies in the sphere of supply chain management. We present the results of an empirical study conducted on the base of a sample of 208 Russian companies from different industries, describe...

Emerging countries like India, China and Russia who are under pressure to contribute to a mandatory mitigation regime in the forthcoming climate protocol also view the issue of financing as crucial to their future role in ensuring a low carbon pathway of growth. Whether they contribute to the...

This paper analyzes models of equity valuation which are based on accounting data of equity book value, net income, and residual earnings. Research is focused on the problem of validity of different analytical models which is defined by the ability of a model to produce fundamental valuations...

In this paper we review directions and approaches to the analysis of innovation in the public sector to show the complexity and diversity of the studied phenomenon. Determination of the instruments of state policy, promoting the comprehensive development of public sector innovations, should be...

This paper is the first to analyze importance of monitoring costs in real options analysis. Monitoring costs, in this context, are tied to the process of making key investment or management decisions. Monitoring costs differ from previously considered types of frictions, as they make it optimal...

Pricing strategies in multi-sided platforms are a considerably interesting object of research due to the complexity of pricing for different sides of the platform and due to the presence of network externalities. The paper analyzes the current state of the art of research of the factors lying in...