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RAR RUS 9-12 Frolov Andrey andrej.s.frolov@gmail.com The EurAsEC Customs Union and the German Customs Union: the use and limits of analogies The German Customs Union established in 1834 was the first-of-its-kind integration structure in Europe. Nowadays Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia are trying to create the first post-Soviet customs union. They intend to deepen their economic ties in order to form a single market in the near future. A comparison of the two customs unions can highlight the main issues that arise during the initial stages of economic integration. 339.9 post-soviet integration customs union customs union theory german customs union integration theory https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.1/ 1_frolov.pdf

RAR RUS 13-19 Didenko Nikolay didenko.nikolay@mail.ru Dudnikov Anatoliy wecon@fem.spbstu.ru Skripnyuk Jamilya djamilyas@mail.ru Russian’s region the economic strategy under the global economy evolution The article discloses the principles of forming foreign economic strategy of a region in the face of general and regional integration of the Russian economy into the Global Economy. The authors focus on the aims and priorities of the foreign economic strategy of regional development. The article emphasizes the role of innovation technology factors in the economic development of a region. 338.322.470.23 foreign economic strategy of a region innovation technology development factors global economy https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.2/ 2_didenko.pdf

RAR RUS 20-26 Kudryavtseva Tatiana tankud28@mail.ru Problems of russian public procurement reform This article describes the problems of the Russian system of government procurement since reforming in 2005. Тhe main problems are incorrect targeting of the State customer at the time of the conclusion of public contracts: budgetary savings orientation at the expense of quality products; insufficient or partial regulation of the methodology of public procurement; dysfunction of the International Institute of public procurement transplantation in Russia. 658.14/.17 (075.8) public procuremenт competitive bidding performance pricing cooperatives transplantation institute https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.3/ 3_kudriavceva.pdf

RAR RUS 27-33 Gushchina Larisa glb2006@list.ru Livintsova Maria livintsova@hotmail.ru Activity analysis and perspectives of development of power equipment production in Russia In clause problems of competitive situation in domestic energy machine industry at the present stage are studied. Main tendencies of its development are stated due to growth of sales opportunities and improvement of product quality. 338(075.8) activity analysis economics of industry the energy machine industry innovation level investment appeal https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.4/ 4_gushina.pdf

RAR RUS 34-41 Nikolova Liudmila nikalvsk@yandex.ru Radionova Julia conly@mail.ru A model for the optimization of a regional investment program The article reviews the question of building a regional investment program in the context of limited resources. When building a regional investment program in the context of limited resources, a need arises to construct a portfolio of orders with regard to their hierarchical priority, which, in this case, means a criterion for optimization. Using this approach, a program includes, first of all, objects which have qualitatively assessable indicators with higher values. To solve this task, we can use mathematical modeling tools and optimization (normative) tools containing expressions with algebraic operations, which can be maximized or minimized with certain limitations. 330.322.214 investment program optimization priority region hierarchical analysis method https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.5/ 5_nikolova.pdf

RAR RUS 42-47 Demidenko Daniel demidenko11@rambler.ru Babarin Michael The peculiarities of economic and financial analysis of an enterprise when making optimal decisions In article analysis methods for interpretation of optimum economic decisions for the enterprise, concerning efficiency of investment activity and production improvement of quality, are considered. 330.131.5 quality strategy optimization methods economic balance https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.6/ 6_demidenko.pdf

RAR RUS 48-54 Ilyin Igor ilyin@fem.spbstu.ru Levchenko Jury levchenko@set-energo.ru Levina Anastasia alyovina@gmail.com Some issues of the formation of engineering companies’ architecture The article states a problem of correspondence between system of management business processes and organizational structure of the engineering company and its strategic goals and growing business interests. Authors proposed the approach for restructuring of enterprise architecture based on reengineering of management business processes and reforming of organizationalstructure to provide business growth. 65.014.12 enterprise architecture organizational structure project management business process engineering company https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.7/ 7_ilyin.pdf

RAR RUS 55-61 Evseeva Oksana yevoksana@inbox.ru Managing sustainable development of small and mediumsized russian companies in the global economy Opportunities and peculiarities of doing business for small and medium-size enterprises in the global economy are observed in the article. The concept of sustainable development on the basis of managing potential of small and medium-size enterprises is offered by the author. Alsothere are main directions of a state policy of support that could provide more efficient sustainable development of small and medium business in Russia. 658.114 small and medium-size enterprises global economy sustainable development opportunities features https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.8/ 8_evseeva.pdf

RAR RUS 61-64 Malinina Tatiana t_malinina@mail.ru The problem of choice of the unit cost indicators of energy equipment in terms of inflation The paper considers the problem of justification of specific indicators of power equipment for transmission lines and substations arising from the feasibility study of energy facilities. It analyzes the impact of inflation on the specific parameters of the cost. 338.45:621.311 specific indicators of cost power equipment feasibility studies inflation https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.9/ 9_malinina.pdf

RAR RUS 65-71 Lopatin Mikhail m_lopatin@inbox.ru Potyomkin Valery socupr@rambler.ru Professional capacity of enterprise workers The article is defined the problem of employee’s professional capacity growth. The work purpose consist in understanding correlation among organizational development of industrial employees` professional skills. The article also discussed the problems of differentiation of professional competencies by type of work. 658.3:331.108.26 industrial enterprises professional competencies differentiation of professional competencies https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.10/ 10_lopatin.pdf

RAR RUS 72-79 Block Madeleine madeleineblock@gmx.net Khvatova Tatiana tatiana-khvatova@mail.ru Cultural influences on organizational knowledge and knowledge sharing: casestudy of Russia, Germany, Finland Efficient intra-organisational sharing of resources, especiallyknowledge, defines the level competitiveness of large organisations. The aim of the article is to take a closer look at cross-cultural aspect as one of the most influencing factors of knowledge sharing and discover the impact of cultural background of employees belonging to different nations — Russia, Germany, Finland. The cultural influence on understanding the role of knowledge and knowledge sharing is investigated. 005.94 knowledge sharing large organizations culture https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.11/ 11_block.pdf

RAR RUS 80-83 Litnitskiy Ilya ilya.litnitskiy@gmail.com Project management optimization through integration of Agile approach Innovational IT projects are an urgent topic for the last few years. The world is changing, constantly improving technologies have become a part of our lives. Project management tools in the field of IT are significantly different to the ones used in traditional industries. Today's IT projects require project managers with the profound knowledge and practical skills enabling to manage constantly changing requirements of stakeholders. The aim ofthe article is to take a closer look at the advantages of Agile approach over traditional models when it comes to project management in IT field. 338.242.2 project management agile approach traditional models IT projects process optimization https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.12/ 12_litnitskiy.pdf

RAR RUS 84-88 Milskaya Elena santa-2000@mail.ru Innovation as a key factor of competitive advantages The article analyzes the concept of innovation, offers the author's definition of the term. Innovation is proposed to be considered as a distinct competitive advantage, especially in innovative enterprises. 339.13.027 innovation types of innovation competitive factors of innovative activity of enterprises the competitive advantage of innovation active enterprise https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.13/ 13_milskaya.pdf

RAR RUS 89-94 Kankovskaya Alina kankowska_alina@mail.ru National and regional innovation systems in the economic cycle The article formulates the principles underlying the functioning of the national innovation system in the economic cycle and the priorities of the innovation at various levels of the national economy. The problem of the development of regional innovation systems as open complex systems is stated. 338.12 complex system long-tern technological cycle national innovation system (NIS) regional innovation system (RIS) technological development https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.14/ 14_kankovskaya.pdf

RAR RUS 95-102 Rodionov D.G. rodion_dm@mail.ru Sedov Alexander minprom@e-mordovia.ru Innovative infrastructure as element ensuring competitiveness in the region (case study: the Republic of Mordovia) The article studies the impact of innovative infrastructure onto the region’s competitiveness. Competitiveness factors and conditions for efficient performance of an innovative infrastructure are addressed in the case study of the Republic of Mordovia. 332.1 competitiveness innovative infrastructure innovation potential innovation development https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.15/ 15_rodionov.pdf

RAR RUS 103-108 Garanin Dmitriy garanin@kafedrapik.ru Lukashevich Nikita lukashevich@kafedrapik.ru The evaluation of investment attractiveness of the project using the generalized indicator and reducing the degree of subjectivity In general, investment decision is an evaluation of the proposed alternatives for the investor using a set of indicators. It seems to be appropriate to use a method of the potential distribution of probabilities when investors know only the data of relevant characteristics of the investment projects. The application of the method is presented and it is shown that the quantitative estimates calculated by this method are relative and strongly depend on the choice of the base project. 519.86 generalized indicator Bayesian criterion Shannon entropy subjectivity https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.16/ 16_garanin.pdf

RAR RUS 109-119 Mirolubov Andrei amirolubov@yandex.ru Makio Juho juarsa@web.de Mobile technology in supporting ebusiness – chances and challenges Paper discusses the chances and challenges of contemporary e-business mobilization process. Mobile applications are characterized as an applications running invarious mobile devices. In the business context, mobile applications usually have an over Internet into back-officesystems. Because of the lack of the computing power and slow wireless connections, the calculations of the presented data is done on the back-end and the presentation is done on the mobile device. Paper explains that correct choice of mobile apps is a promising approach to improve the efficiency of business processes and to reduce operative expenses in organizations. 334 mobile technology e-business mobile customer applications mobile business applications front-end devices computation power portability https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.17/ 17_mirolubov.pdf

RAR RUS 120-124 Dubolazov Victor info@kafedrapik.ru Salkutsan Sergey salkutsan@kafedrapik.ru Marketing and management The concepts of marketing and marketing management are presented. The aims and the functions of marketing are described. The definition of management is analyzed and the place of marketing plan in the management process is shown. Author provides a classification of marketing plan. The economic and mathematical model for the choice of actions to be included in marketing plan is offered. 65.012.25 marketing marketing management marketing plan model for the choice of actions https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.18/ 18_dubolazov.pdf

RAR RUS 125-130 Okorokov Roman roman_okorokov@mail.ru Timofeeva Anna anna_ti@mail.ru Principles and methods of intellectual property objects’ commercialization It is shown that the formation of innovative economy in our country and increase of requirements to the quality and competitiveness of production of domestic enterprises stipulate the development of principles and methods of the process of intellectual property objects’ commercialization and active implementation of the results of intellectual activity in economic operations. 330.341.2 intellectual property intellectual assets intellectual capital objects of intellectual property commercialization of objects of intellectual property innovative economy https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.19/ 19_okorokov.pdf

RAR RUS 131-137 Yakovleva Elena helen812@pochta.ru Economic margin models as basic methods of the economic efficiency of russian companies The greatest goal of management is to use assets of a company most efficiently and to increase its market value (capitalization, profits) through the introduction of controlling mechanisms which help the company adapt itself to the changes of external environment, ensure the company’s economic growth, lead to successful application of advanced technologies, and result both in the increased quality of products and crucial competitive advantages. 338.12 economic efficiency value based method (VBM) company's assets economic added value profitability https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.20/ 20_jakovleva.pdf

RAR RUS 138-148 V-1094-2019 56968223000 0000-0002-0941-6358 Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Babkin Alexander babkin@spbstu.ru

Russia, 195251, St.Petersburg, Polytechnicheskaya, 29

Methods of evaluating the economic potential of the industrial enterprise In article the contents and economic essence of the concept "economic potential" in relation to the industrial enterprise is considered. The analysis of methods of an assessment of economic capacity of the industrial enterprise on the basis of which classification of used methods is executed is carried out. The developed classification and the executed characteristic of methods will allow the researcher to carry out a reasonable choice of methods of an assessment of economic capacity of the enterprise depending on features of a solved task and influencing external and internal factors. 658 methods economic potential industrial enterprise https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.21/

RAR RUS 149-154 Rudskaya Irina intro9@yandex.ru Methods to evaluate uncertainty of investment process in innovative organizations The article is dedicated to the potential of expertmethods when being used to evaluate environment uncertainty of investment processes in organizations involved in innovative activities. 330.322.01 uncertainty assessment investments process innovative organizations https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.22/ 22_rudskaya.pdf

RAR RUS 155-158 Kozlova Daria 9534795@gmail.com The economic impact of internationalization of higher education Four categories of internationalization of higher education have been allocated depending on the method for determining the economic effect. Educational hub — new trend in internationalization of higher education and the term which is offered by author — has been proposed. Main effects of the internationalization of higher education have been analyzed. 378.14:339.92 (075.8) internationalization of higher education efficiency of internationalization educational hub educational program export https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.23/ 23_kozlova.pdf

RAR RUS 159-163 Tulugurova Ekaterina Ekaterina.tulugurova@gmail.com Higher education virtualization substantiation for sustainable national economic outlook The world economy of 21st ncentury poses new questions and challenges to the players worldwide. The old classical rules of natural resource economy, although stillexisting, have lost its dominating and defining meaning for the development of competitive advantage. Moreover old mechanisms of world economic regulations have recently been proved insufficient and incompetent to protect global markets fr om repetition shock of year 2008. The leading economies have to face new conditions of operating and competing in the era of knowledge economy. Knowledge economy is seen as one strongly based on the intellectual activities of its core players wh ere their intellectual capital and potential become the key resources to build upon. Therefore in regard to the national economic competitiveness the index of national intellectual potential has to be taken into account. 378.14:339.92 (075.8) 339.92 (075.8) educational virtualisation human development index education stakeholders virtual education environment https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.24/ 24_tulugurova.pdf

RAR RUS 164-172 Lichy Jessica jessica.lichy@idraclyon.com A-5757-2017 35573556300 0000-0001-9375-0262 Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Kozlov Alexander akozlov@spbstu.ru; avk55-spb@yandex.ru

Polytechnicheskaya, 29, St.Petersburg,195251

Rethinking of the teaching of crosscultural management: an investigation The purpose of this enquiry is to explore the skills gap in cross-cultural management (CCM). The focus is on investigating the gap by identifying the CCM skills that students can demonstrate in international business programmes within an academic context, then comparing these elements with the skills that employers require for a career in international business. The enquiry puts forward that there is an urgent need to change the fundamental approach to teaching CCM, away from traditional hard skillstowards applied soft skills; to keep abreast of ongoing changes at a global level, and to take into account the impact of technological transformation. The findings point to a number of shortcomings in CCM education today, and serve as a forewarning to those concerned with the future of delivering CCM skills — researchers, faculty and scholars of cross-cultural research. 339.92 cros-cultural management international business programm's graduate skills https://economy.spbstu.ru/article/2013.37.25/ 25_lichy.pdf