The economy of modern oil-producing regions is characterized by the accelerated growth of industrial production volumes, the number of created and established industrial companies, relatively high activity of small business, high level of investment attractiveness of the region, infrastructure, rapidly evolving social sphere. The most dynamic sector of the regional economy is the sector of oil-producing industries of the economy, historically developed in the region on the basis of the proven oil fields. It is obvious that the increased competition on the market of oil production with an objective necessity requires activation of such factor of its minimization as consulting. In addition, the need to improve business efficiency makes small oil companies seek the assistance of a consulting firm to search for qualified specialists, to optimize tax payments, develop marketing and advertising campaigns. In other words, the increase in the number of enterprises, their distribution on the territory of the region directly affects the development of the consulting services field. Consequently, big consulting companies are concentrated in oil-producing regions. The article describes the main economic and organizational/managerial prerequisites for activating the market of consulting services in the oil-extracting sector of the economy of the region, including the intensification of the regional production clusters, the formation and development of small upstream companies focused on oil extraction in inefficient and poorly established fields with the use of modern technologies, a high level of scientific-technical and educational potential of large urban agglomerations and several others. The article is intended for students studying methods of conducting marketing research on the market of consulting services, teachers of the "Marketing in services sector", "Consulting" disciplines, as well as for marketing experts and managers of consulting companies working out strategies for their development in the oil-producing regions of Russia. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s3p169
The acceleration of the transition of the Russian economy to an innovative way of development largely depends on the innovativeness in the services sector. The efficiency of the services sector and its innovation development cannot be addressed without consideration of the regulatory role of the state and the assessment of this role. However, there is still no comprehensive study of this problem; there is only coverage of some aspects of the problem and fragmented presentation of its individual aspects. The article analyzes the causes for the need of the state influence on the innovation development of services, methods of regulatory impact assessment (RIA) by industry, including the service sector, highlights the stages of the development of the RIA methodology, systematizes theoretical approaches to the regulatory impact assessment by the state. All this allowed the authors to justify a system of principles and directions of research within the logic of RIA, a set of methods and tools for collecting, processing and analyzing data, forming a methodology for the use of RIA, a system of criteria and indicators of the realization of the RIA goals. This article is intended for researchers, teachers and graduate students studying the problems of regulatory impact assessment of a state on innovation, as well as specialists of the state bodies dealing with the problems of improving the regulatory impact assessment of the state.
In today's economy the social infrastructure sectors from "the social overhead capital" or under the process of social reproduction have turned into an independent economic activity that occupies much larger share of the gross national product and gross national income compared to the "tangible" production phase. The social overhead today dominates both in GDP and employment volume, profit growth rates, capital investments volume, the level of innovation activity. The article analyzes the modern structure of the social infrastructure, gives rationale for the estimation methods of the social infrastructure parameters, examines the current classification of the social infrastructure factors affecting the economic growth of the region, identifies the new trends and patterns, analyzes the reasons for the decline in the investments absolute volume in the sectors of social infrastructure and identifies the factors stimulating and retarding the development of social overhead. This article is intended for the researchers, lecturers and students studying service economy, the methods of research in the social infrastructure sectors within the disciplines "Service economy", "Social infrastructure services ", as well as for the heads of the social infrastructure bodies, specialists of the regional regulatory bodies dealing with development of social overhead. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s3p260
In the context of growing globalization processes and the entry of Russia into the international information space the problems of competitiveness of domestic operators in the information - communication services market are actualizing. On the basis of analysis and use of the "matrix of strategic actions of a service company" the main specific organizational and managerial features of construction and implementation of competitive development strategies for the information - communication services market participants are considered, the comparative characteristics of the development of competitive strategies in the market of information and communication services by traditional methods of strategic planning are considered, the benefits of "divisional" structures and their specificity in the market of information and communication services are justified. This article is intended for students studying methods of marketing research in the service industries, as well as marketing specialists, operators who develop strategies of their companies growth. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s3p113
The article considers the methodological aspects of application of statistical and information modeling to assess the performance of the institutional crisis management systems; proposes institutional attributes necessary to evaluate the performance; contains a conceptual model for evaluating the quality of the institutional crisis management system; suggests methods of estimation of the performance, efficiency and sustainability indicators, and discusses the possible directions of its further application to explore the issues of institutionalization of crisis management systems.
Russia’s joining the international information space and increasing competition with foreign communication providers significantly challenges the competitiveness of domestic operators in the market of information-communication services. The authors consider the convergence process in the field of information-communication services in terms of its place and role information and development of the innovative forms of information and communication services, which is characterized as a process of convergence and interpenetration of diverse information and communication technologies that could lead to a qualitatively new technological solutions able to satisfy the demand of today’s rapidly changing information environment. The researcher critically analyzes the traditional cycle of the mechanism of creating and implementing information and communication services, justifies the principles and prerequisites for convergence processes in the field of information and communication services, as well as their diffusion into other horizontal and vertical branches of economic activity. This article is intended for the students studying the methods of marketing research in service industries, the teachers of the “Marketing” disciplines as well as marketing managers and managers for communications providers who develop their companies’ growth strategies.
