Purpose: the study presented in this article is aimed at improving the methodological tools for assessing intellectual capital, taking into account changes caused by the emerging of the information and network economy and deepening of digitalization.

Methods: the article is prepared using a system thinking, a set of general theoretical and economic methods, structural-logical modeling and graphical methods for presention of information.

Results: a structural and logical model of the navigator of intellectual capital is developed to take into account the complete set of resources of the enterprise operating in the information and network economy, including resources related to network interaction and the application of new production and management technologies. The shortcomings of the limitation of the existing model of the intellectual capital navigator have been identified and the approaches for their elimination have been substantiated. A new design of the structural and logical model has been developed to match the intellectual capital navigator with the accounting model of the corporate balance sheet. The content, hierarchy and interrelationships of the tangible and intangible resources are refined. The augmented model of the intellectual capital navigator incorporates know-how concept consisting of the production and organizational-management know-how, as well as it includes the concepts of "brand" and "business model" in accordance with the principle of emergence of a system thinking to meet the challenge of complexity.

Conclusions and relevance: the intellectual capital navigator is a promising methodological tool for the comprehensive accounting of the corporate tangible and intangible resources and presenting of information for management decision-making in order to overcome the limitations of the traditional accounting model. These limitations became especially significant with the emerging of the information and network economy and the deepening of digitalization. At the same time, the initial structural and logical model of the intellectual capital navigator has some shortcomings that do not allow to apply in full extent to decision-making. The modified intellectual capital navigator eliminates the most significant shortcomings associated with the non-conformity of the model to accounting principles, its internal contradictions that hamper the consistent accounting of the parts of intellectual property, and develops a structural and logical model for better accounting of intangible resources associated with the interaction of entities in the information and network economy. 

Purpose: the purpose of the research is to evaluate proposals on the formation of a fundamentally new support and zonal structure for managing the development of the Russian Arctic and related changes in the regulatory and legal support for this development.

Methods: research is carried out with the use of interdisciplinary methodologies which integrate specific tools of research of economic, sociological, political science, ecological, legal and other issues of spatial systems’ functioning.

Results: there is an active modernization in the production, infrastructure and defense spheres on the territory of the Russian Arctic, the accelerated development of which can be considered a prerequisite for solving the social and economic problems of the integrated development of the whole macroregion. At the same time, the gradual modernization of the institutional and legal bases for the development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF) began. An additional impetus was given to it by the adoption of Decree №1064 of the Government of the Russian Federation of August 31, 2017 on a new state program for the development of the Arctic that made significant adjustments to earlier decisions on public administration and legal support for the development of the Russian Arctic.

Conclusions and relevance: the authors showed that one of the main reasons for the slow implementation of the justifiably ambitious intentions of the country's leadership on the complex socio-economic re-development of the Russian Arctic was the underestimation of the importance of modernizing the institutional and legal bases for the re-development of the Russian Arctic. The modernization of the institutional and legal bases of spatial development is becoming an important factor in the stable functioning of not only the state, regions and municipalities, but also for the implementation of any investment projects. The data on innovations in the structure of the institutes and legal regulators of the development of the Russian Arctic confirms the undoubtedly positive potential for modernizing the institutional and legal bases for the spatial development of the Russian Arctic and the need for experimental verification of the decisions taken so that that potential could be fully realized. 

Purpose: the purpose of this article is to study the evolution of oil&gas service outsourcing, to determine trends and factors that define these trends. The article also tests the methodology of “five forces of outsourcing” model formulated by the author.

Methods: a number of factors, which constitute the “five forces of outsourcing” model, proposed by the author, influences outsourcing. The elements of the model are transaction costs, competitive advantages, trust and commitment, level of economic development and the “sourcing cycle”. The article uses extensive amount of company data and market research, contains assessment of the market volume and prospects of its growth.

Results: oil & gas services are the most dynamic type of outsourcing in the oil & gas industry. The article analyses the evolution of oil & gas services outsourcing for the past 20 years through the lenses of the “five forces” methodology. This type of outsourcing first emerged when the Russian economy turned to market economy. It started from the “ground zero” point, evolved, matured and finally became an indispensable part of the oil & gas industry nowadays. At the same time the oil&gas industry reimagined its value chain, having concentrated on its competitive advantages and transferred service business processes to outsourcing providers. The market of oil & gas services outsourcing passed the test when an attempt to create a state monopoly in this field failed due to the maturity of the market.

Conclusions and relevance: the task of increasing eficiency of the oil & gas industry in Russia is paramount especially taking into account the decrease in oil prices. Outsourcing is, undoubtedly, one of the means of achieving such eficiency. Its volumes will keep growing. Yet some companies will continue to test the effectiveness of insourcing operations. The analysis also confirmes the validity of the “five forces” methodology as well as the “sourcing cycle” theory.

Purpose: substantiation of sociological research problems associated with the socio-organizational barriers appearance in the implementation of scientific and technological development Strategies (SSTD) in regions with different levels of socio-cultural modernization and their readiness assessment to innovate according to innovation and technological systems criteria and elements.

Methods: research methodology is the principles of logical and mathematical justification of obtaining new knowledge: from the formulation of a practically significant problem to the empirical interpretation of the used concepts and the new result. The elements of the research program are the problem, object, subject, hypotheses, goals and tasks, and the methodological method is to use of empirical scales to test hypotheses and substantiate the results. The main method of collecting primary data is to obtain them remotely from the selected regionsoficial websites.

Results: to get the proof of the possibilities of more full use of the feedback potential in the regional management systems in the development of Strategic documents and their implementation. It is shown that the main reason for the appearance of socio-organizational barriers is that the interests of central industries and departments today consistently prevail over the of spatial development regions interests with different levels of socio-cultural modernization.

Conclusions and relevance: sociological support Opportunities of Strategic documents preparation and implementation gives a preliminary, but still convincing picture of this process organization. It can be taken by central and local authorities in Strategic documents next stages.

Purpose: is to form a comprehensive view of economic legal awareness as the most important factor in the progressive development of the domestic economy and the pledge of the further construction of the rule of law in Russia.

Methods: the research is based on the principles of systemic, theoretical-cognitive, institutional, instrumental and interdisciplinary approaches, on the idea of the correlation and interaction of subjective and objective factors in social processes accepted in social science, with relative independence of the subject. Which is devoted to the following tasks: To characterize the legal awareness as a phenomenon and disclose the content of economic legal awareness; To investigate the interaction of the economic legal awareness of modern Russians with regard to the economic task of raising real incomes of citizens; To uncover the legal consciousness of modern Russian business, as the main actor of solving the problem of the Russian Federation becoming one of the five largest economies in the world; To outline the parameters of the influence of economic legal awareness on the creation of a high-performance export-oriented sector in the basic sectors of the economy, developing on the basis of modern technologies and provided with highly qualified personnel.

Results: economic legal awareness should be understood as a process and result of the individual's comprehension and evaluation of his legal position in the economy. It is personal and socially conditioned. The state economic policy of Russia has applied specifics, which puts barriers on the way of intensive economic development. The modern Russian in most cases is economically active only for earning, for which he is ready to get a good education and work hard. At the same time, it easily enough goes on minor violations of the law, such as work, without registration for a higher salary or obtaining a loan, which certainly will not be returned in full. At the same time, Russian business, basically, works in the legal field.

Сonclusions and relevance: it can be stated that the economic legal awareness of Russians, like the legal awareness in general, is situational in nature, where the individual's desires, needs and interests become a yardstick, for the implementation of which he is ready to violate the law. Overcome this situation can only complex and systematic activity of government bodies, institutions of civil society and the Russian society to solve the economic problems of progressive development facing it, including through legal education and enlightenment.

Purpose: the main purpose of the study is to substantiate the prospects and relevance of corporate governance in Russia, which is considered as a factor of stability and profitability of business in the dificult conditions of uncertainty of the external environment due to a series of global challenges. For the objectivization of the choice of possessing the relevant competence of managers and avoiding principal-agent conflicts it is important to explore the factors driving the process of delegating the management of the company to the professional management, and to identify its specifics, characteristic for the Russian realities.

Methods: the peculiarity of this article is to compare and summarize the views of members of the expert community, representing different areas of practical and analytical activities and able to assess the state and dynamics of corporate governance in Russia from different points of view. The article attempts to integrate common positions of the expert community and to correlate them in cases where consensus is not yet observed. Thus, the author does not pretend to discover new facts and produce new quantitative data, but offers a generalized representation of existing diverse views on the state and trends of corporate governance in modern Russia.

Results: the factor analysis of the origins and status of the problem of delegation of company management to professional management. Modern trends in the development of management of Russian companies are summarized on the basis of a comparison of assessments of practitioners and experts representing different groups of the professional community on the most problematic areas of corporate governance development. The directions of operational activities for assessing the readiness of management to solve strategic tasks and achieve the strategic goals of the company. A set of factors to improve the eficiency of corporate governance was identified and priority indicators for its analysis were identified.

Conclusions and relevance: the conducted research shows that the topic of achieving the effectiveness of corporate governance does not lose its relevance, its importance increases many times to achieve the strategic goals of the company, improve its competitiveness and investment attractiveness. The success of strategic development depends on many factors, including productive, responsible and trusting relations of all subjects of corporate governance, first of all – owners and hired management. In strategic terms, those companies that have chosen the path of improving corporate governance, gain more chances of their own growth, reliable strengthening of the previously won leading market positions, acquisition of a global scale.

The article analyzes the main provisions of the strategy of social and economic development of the Lipetsk region for the period until 2020. The goal, tasks and indicators for the development of the Lipetsk region for the period up to 2020 are presented, and a scheme for justifying scenarios for the development of the region's economy with the predominance of a type of economic activity (PTEA) on the basis of a qualitative analysis of the established additional parameters. The testing scenarios for the development of the Lipetsk region have been tested on the basis of an analysis of the costs incurred by participants in the region's economy, which are necessary to implement the economic development scenarios of the Lipetsk region by years. Approbation of the process of substantiating scenarios for the development of the region's economy based on the example of the Lipetsk region was carried out. Preliminarily established and justified the most optimal scenario for the development of the economy of the Lipetsk region in conditions of the predominance of the type of economic activity "Processing industries".

Purpose: to develop recommendations for choosing the preferred option for the development of the economy of the Lipetsk region on the basis of a detailed analysis of strategic development scenarios to improve the manageability of the region's economy in conditions of the predominance of a particular type of economic activity.

Methods: the scientific results are based on the main provisions of the neoclassical institutional theory, the principles of sustainable development and the basic postulates of the regional economy. The article uses comparative, analytical and economic-statistical research methods.

Results: the process of substantiating scenarios for the development of the region's economy with PTEA is formulated, additional parameters for comparing scenarios that take into account the specifics of the development of the region's economy with PTEA are described, steps for qualitative analysis of indicators for justifying scenarios for the development of the region's economy are described, scenarios for the development of the Lipetsk region are tested, development of the economy of the Lipetsk region.

Conclusions and relevance: the practical importance of the developed methodological provisions is the possibility of their application to manage changes in the economy of the region, aimed at increasing the sustainability of its development. In particular, in the Lipetsk region, it is advisable to implement a basic scenario of development, which implies a balanced growth of the prevailing and other types of economic activity.

Purpose: the main purpose of the article is to investigate modern problems of the institution of bankruptcy and the impact of its results on the system of economic security of the state, to develop recommendations for improving the institution of bankruptcy and the concept of subsidiary liability. To achieve the goal, the following problems are solved in the article: the definition of theoretical and practical aspects, the generalization of processes for the formation and development of the concept of subsidiary liability of an unscrupulous controlling the debtor’s persons; the analysis of practical problems of realization of the concept of subsidiary responsibility of an unscrupulous controlling the debtor’s persons; a study of the Russian and foreign practice of implementing the institution of bankruptcy and subsidiary liability unscrupulous controlling the debtor’s persons; the formation of proposals on the development of the concept of subsidiary liability of an unscrupulous debtor controlling the debtor as a tool to increase the eficiency of the institution of bankruptcy and ensure economic security.

Methods: methods the article is based on a systematic approach to the definition and formation of the concept of subsidiary responsibility, theoretical, economic and functional analysis of the complex interaction of the main participants of the institution of bankruptcy and the impact of their activities on the economic security of the country.

Results: the increase in the number of illegal actions in bankruptcy cases led to the need in the last decade to strengthen the economic (subsidiary) responsibility of the debtor controlling the debtor. The author summarizes the theoretical and practical aspects of regulating the subsidiary responsibility of an unscrupulous controlling debtor for improper actions in the bankruptcy of the debtor in the concept of subsidiary liability. The study showed that the formed concept of subsidiary liability and the new rules adopted in 2017 for the subsidiary liability of the debtor controlling persons significantly increased the risk of bringing to account those who use the scheme to terminate the company without going through a formal bankruptcy procedure. However, the effectiveness of these measures remains insuficient, there are gaps in the implementation of the concept. In the work on the basis of practical experience of the application of the concept of subsidiary responsibility in Russia and foreign experience, proposals have been made to improve the concept, their implementation along with other proposals for the modernization of the institution of bankruptcy will increase the eficiency of the institution of bankruptcy and prevent emerging crisis phenomena in the economy, stabilize the financial situation of business entities and ensure the economic security of the country.

Conclusions and relevance: the conducted research shows the importance of the concept of subsidiary liability in ensuring the effectiveness of the institution of bankruptcy and economic security of the country. The conducted analysis of foreign practice confirms the need to regulate the institution of bankruptcy of economic and legal responsibility of the controlling debtor for bringing the debtor to bankruptcy and wrongful actions in bankruptcy. The proposed directions for improving the concept of subsidiary liability provide an opportunity for its development, in terms of increasing the responsibility of persons involved in the bankruptcy case, for improper acts in bankruptcy.

The article highlights the issue of the institutional structure of small and medium-sized businesses in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In particular, the essence of the institutional environment of entrepreneurship is determined and its definition is proposed based on the analysis of scientific sources. The structure of the system of state regulation and stimulation of entrepreneurship in the Republic of Kazakhstan is analyzed. Estimates of the entrepreneurial climate of the Republic of Kazakhstan as an object of state influence for the formation of favorable conditions for the development of small and mediumsized businesses are given. Author notes the importance of a systematic approach to the formation of the state policy to stimulate and support small and mediumsized businesses. The article reveals the features of management and stimulation, as well as determines the main priority directions and target parameters for the development of small and medium business for the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Purpose: the main objective of this article is to study the institutional framework for the operation of small and medium-sized businesses in the Republic of Kazakhstan and to assess the impact of the institutional working environment on the development of small and mediumsized businesses. To achieve this purpose, the following tasks were solved: to determine the essence of the institutional environment of entrepreneurship; to study the structure of the system and the mechanism of state regulation and stimulation of entrepreneurship in the Republic of Kazakhstan; to analyze the actual state of the institutional environment of entrepreneurship in the Republic of Kazakhstan; to determine the target criteria for the development of SMEs in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Methods: this article is based on the methods of structural analysis and of the system approach.

Results: today, small and mediumsized businesses are the most promising actors in the development of a postindustrial economy, where advanced technologies and innovative solutions are a priority. Small and mediumsized businesses, by property of their mobility and flexibility, are the most susceptible to innovation and can be providers of high technology. In addition, the adaptability of small and mediumsized businesses is a factor of rapid and targeted response to the slightest changes in market or technological conditions. At the same time, small and medium businesses are an important factor in reducing unemployment (especially structural and cyclical). But at the same time, small and mediumsized businesses need protection from the state, since a small amount of capital, as well as a relatively small amount of production of each individual subject of small and mediumsized business, causes insecurity in the event of a market expansion of large businesses. Errors in the system of state regulation of business (tightening of taxation, inexpediently stringent regulations, etc.) can significantly slow down or even cause a reduction in the expansion of entrepreneurial initiative. Thus, the search for ways to organize the most favorable institutional and market environment for small and mediumsized businesses (in particular, priority for the implementation of state economic policy) is a priority task of the state regulatory system.

Conclusions and relevance: the research carried out within the framework of the subject of this article shows that the institutional environment for the operation of small and mediumsized businesses in the Republic of Kazakhstan is quite favorable, because the state implements a policy of maximum favor to the development of entrepreneurial initiative in the country. Moreover, by maximizing its efforts to create an effective mechanism for stimulating and supporting small and mediumsized businesses, the institutional environment is constantly improving. This brings its results, in the form of improving the general business environment. At the same time, there are certain aspects, such as customs barriers, the dificulty in obtaining various kinds of permits (often this is due to corrupt oficials). Therefore, the incentive system for small and mediumsized businesses should include an effective mechanism to ensure compliance with rights and protect entrepreneurs.