Russia\'s North Regions as Frontier Territories: Demographic Indicators and Management Features

Abstract

The study of Russia's northern regions as frontier territories is the subject of this article. It has been shown that frontier territories are distinguished with special mechanisms of development and predominance of innovative projects in entrepreneurship. The management of the frontier territories is less centralized and depends more on personal and organizational qualities of local leaders. Distinctive features of the frontier territories brought about the fact that they have some specific demographic characteristics. One of the directions of the research is to clarify the question whether Russia's northern territories are frontiers or not at present time. This problem has been studied from two viewpoints. Firstly, on the basis of the authors' methodology the demographic indicators of Russia's northern territories were compared with the average Russian ones. Secondly, it has been estimated how special the management of the northern territories is in comparison with others.

Corporate Social Responsibility as a Reserve for the Growth of Entrepreneurial Activity in the Russian Arctic

“…The development of entrepreneurship is a stabilizing factor without which no balanced and sustainable development of the Arctic is possible as such. Alongside with this, a series of studies give evidence about poor development of the entrepreneurial environment in the Russian Arctic as compared to the general Russian situation, as well as about extremely non-uniform development of factors of the entrepreneurial environment (Samarina et al, 2018;Suopajärvi, et al,2017;Suopajärvi et al, 2016). The authors have also confirmed the peculiar nature of manifestation of the phenomenon of Arctic entrepreneurship which can elicit the association between the large enterprises and the opportunities for the development of small and medium businesses within the Arctic.…”

“…Escalation of the unemployment problem aggravated by higher expenses for life sustenance in the Arctic can initiate a higher outflow of the population, which will exacerbate the "empty spaces" problem (Edoho, 2016;Samarina et al, 2018). The population's outflow from the Arctic areas is also initiated by the increase of unemployment problems stemming from higher workforce productivity in large industrial enterprises.…”

High-Quality Reproduction Of Labor Potential Of Arctic Territories: Migration Factor

“…The inflow of labor resources into the Russian Arctic was provided mainly through the recruitment of graduates by industrial enterprises and through organized labor mobility (an example of which is the development of virgin lands, Komsomol construction projects), and also through the introduction of a regional wage regulation system (Ivanova & Klyukina, 2017;Timoshenko, 2013). However, the collapse of the centralized Soviet system produced a significant increase in social tensions in the Arctic labor markets and, in fact, the collapse of the social infrastructure (Laruelle, 2011;Sukneva, 2013;Samarina, Skufina, & Samarin, 2018), which led to mass migration to the southern regions. It should be noted that the direction of migration movements, which resulted in the reduction of labor potential was particularly noticeable in that period for the Murmansk region.…”

Human capital of the Karelian Arctic in the implementation of the special economic regime of the region

“…In the development of research tools, the works of leading world [5][6][7] and Russian [8,9] scientists in the field of human capital research as well as the author's theoretical and methodological research [10] were implemented. The considerable experience of Russian researchers in the study of socio-economic processes in the Arctic was also taken into account [e.g., 11,12].…”