No 1 (2011)

In the article questions of specificity of banks' competition on Russian market and approaches to it's analysis are risen. Author suggests a more detailed segmentation of competition, than Bank of Russia does, basing on the residence of bank owners and the size of bank's assets. Competitiveness analysis based on number of qualitative and quantitative indicators is performed in the article. As a result competitive advantages and disadvantages affecting banks' competitiveness on Russian market are revealed. Author considers state-owned banks as national champions and finds some evidence of equilibrium in the segment of large banks, except the group of first echelon, where threats towards Russian banks competitiveness are found.

The article is covering the following topics: modern specifics of theory and practice of consolidation in the frames of today's problems and processes of companies' innovation development. The problem of utilization of effective methods and models of companies' mergers is researched from the position of processes analysis which is connected to integration, concentration, centralization and consolidation of companies' businesses. Particular attention is paid to the strategic development of Russian and CIS nanoindustry. The conclusions and recommendations were made for the establishment and further development of russian nanoindustry in crisis and post-crisis conditions.

In article dynamics of financing of agriculture of Russia in realization of the national project «Agrarian and industrial complex Development» c 2006 till now is analyzed, the basic directions of the anti-recessionary regulation which has allowed domestic agrobusiness to overcome negative influence of world financial and economic crisis and to provide growth of production reveal. Recommendations about perfection of the state support of innovative activity and increase agrobusiness on this basis of its economic efficiency are resulted.

The article deals with urgent and significant matters of economic theory and practice in development and long-term outlook for creation of virtual enterprises as objects of management in information-based economy. It looks at origins and evolutionary stages of telecommuting with description of main periods in development of telecommuting in the West. The article offers theoretical analysis of concepts and gist of virtual enterprise and points out several researchers holding different opinions on novelty of virtual enterprises. Advantages of virtual enterprises are assessed from marketing and practical viewpoints. The main emphasis is on merits and advantages of virtual enterprises in the global business environment. Despite numerous publications on this subject the author endeavours to take original approach to definition of virtual organization, internal and external features of its environment, advantages of operating such organization and other problems.

The article considers the main trends of team management developing in nowadays companies and in the managerial consulting market. Timeliness of the problem is mandated by the novelty and upcoming trend of team methods of work in the increasing efficiently of the organizational work. The object of the article is to analyse the main trends of team management on the managerial consulting market and in the native companies. The article considers the approaches to give a definition of the term team, outlines the analysis of the team features and the difference between team and group, being discussed in the historical aspects on teambuilding in management and gives out the analysis of the main approaches of teambuilding in the nowadays companies practices. The article highlights the problems, in the course of team management developing in the managerial consulting market particularly in Russian Federation. To engage in an attempt to give brief teambuilding services analysis on the native managerial consulting market, to study the existing teambuilding tools and to find out its advantage and disadvantage.

The article focuses on the results of the III International Conference World and Russia: regionalism and globalization (with youth scientific school), 11-12 November 2010 at the Faculty of Economics, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.