This article introduces the authors' approach to the study of business success factors for small and medium sized enterprises. The approach is based on the currently dominant practice of estimating the success of an enterprise as its ability to produce profit. The authors have analyzed the success criteria used by managers of Russian small and medium sized enterprises based on the survey carried out among the managers of 212 small and medium sized enterprises in the period of September -November, 2014, and described the correlation between the business success of small and medium sized enterprises and the level of their managers' social responsibility. To estimate the social responsibility, the authors used the values of average salaries and the proportion between the salaries of average executives and those of their managers. Hence, a nonlinear relation has been established between the business success of a small and medium sized enterprises and the manager's social responsibility.
This paper analyses the current situation of small businesses, their outlook and their problems in Europe and in Russia. The number of small businesses opened, legislative system, number of self-employed without employees, influence of bureaucratic system on small business's life, unemployment and corruption are considered in this study. The object of this paper is understanding what can modify the life of small companies. Thus the analysis of every factor is useful to understand how the economy could change, what is correct and what resolutions make the life of small businesses better. The analysis is made using data from Eurostat, Rosstat, and Fedstat (an OECD institutional website), studying how values of indicators have changed during recent years. The results clearly show that the development of small companies is correlated with the development of good institutions, a sane community and trust and optimism in economy and small business sector.
The article presents an analysis of the development of the economy of joint consumption in Russia, an essential area of human activity to ensure sustainable development, conservation of natural resources and energy. The paper presents a typology of the sharing economy. The fastest-growing markets are described: C2C sales, social savings (joint purchases), rental of goods, P2P services in the field of direct hiring (freelance), crowdfunding, and car-sharing. Particular attention is paid to changing the aging portrait of the market participant for the sharing economy, the conquest of these markets by more advanced categories of sellers and buyers. It is concluded that the sharing economy in Russia is on the verge of rapid growth and the need for government support for investments in this area.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.