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This paper examines the sharing economy as an advanced model of interaction between economic agents that helps them mitigate resource constraints and rapidly meet producers’ and consumers’ needs in the face of new challenges. We found the benefits of collaborative consumption, or sharing, to be largely determined by the level of trust in society, development of technological base and adaptation of legal framework to digital transformation of the national economy. Based on the evidence from Russia and Brazil, we classify the factors that determine the sharing economy development and identify effective instruments of regulating sharing relations. The results indicate that regulatory “sandboxes” appear to be most appropriate as they allow participants to test innovations of substantial public importance that lie outside the scope of existing legislative norms.

This study investigates how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) achieve and manage innovative ambidexterity through their dynamic capability, addressing potential imbalances in changing environments under resource constraints. Employing a comparative case study approach, the research draws on qualitative, in-depth interviews with CEOs and founders of four Russian SMEs operating in the Information Technology (IT) sector, selected from a larger cohort. Key capabilities were identified for each phase of the dynamic capability process. In the sensing phase, essential capabilities include cultivating dynamic technological and marketing skills, problem-solving proficiency and commitment to continuous learning with real-time awareness. In the seizing phase, the emphasis shifts to enhancing capabilities through learning, fostering innovation-driven culture, empowering employees, providing continuous training, promoting active collaboration at all levels, and recognizing achievements through team rewards. During the reconfiguration phase, adaptive decision-making, resource and coordination flexibility and future-oriented innovation and partnerships become critical. These capabilities contribute to a balance of exploratory and exploitative innovation within SMEs enabling the achievement of innovative ambidexterity. Throughout this process, potential imbalances are managed by leveraging critical capabilities such as clear goal-setting and performance feedback, culture of openness, trust, and mutual support, and adaptive decision-making with wise allocation of firm-specific resources. Through our findings, we advance the understanding that ambidexterity is achievable for resource-constrained SMEs in uncertain environment under external constraints, offering insights into dynamic capabilities that enable such attainment.

The paper explores the role of external mentoring as a strategic talent attraction tool in the context of talent shortages and describes the ways in which it can help firms to find new candidates, especially among young graduates, at the same time developing its own employees. The authors conducted 21 in-depth interviews with experienced mentors from multinational companies in Russia and one expert interview. Content analysis was used to identify the key themes related to the effectiveness of external mentoring. External mentoring significantly enhances employer branding, knowledge exchange, learning and professional development. The critical components of success are voluntary participation, non-monetary recognition and long-term trust-based relationships between mentors and mentees. The paper also identifies the challenges that external mentoring may encounter and essential criteria for selecting mentors and mentees. The authors conceptualize external mentoring as a novel approach to talent attraction extending beyond internal employee development. The study provides fresh insights into resolving talent shortages and creating external talent pools, thus contributing to talent management and mentoring literature.

Статья посвящена вопросам преобразований в кадровой политике, включая управление человеческими ресурсами, оценке их эффективности для рационального использования профессиональных возможностей личности; подчеркивается важность реализации принципа человекоцентричности, цифровых решений, формирования цифровой культуры и соответствующей цифровой среды, способствующих профессионализации кадров. Особое внимание уделяется важности учета в кадровой политике современных подходов и трендов в управлении персоналом, разработке мероприятий, направленных на усилении лояльности кадров к органу публичной власти или организации и проводимой кадровой политике, удовлетворенности результатами профессиональной деятельности. При написании статьи применялся системный подход, методы социологического анализа.

Как в управленческой, так и в повседневной жизненной практике важно иметь определенное представление о возникающих и решаемых проблемах, критериях их разрешимости. В данной статье представлен комплексный подход к решению этого вопроса: обоснована целесообразность выделения следующих критериев разрешимости социальной проблемы: информационного, детерминационного, ресурсного, инструментального, мотивационного и экономического.

В статье на основе вторичного анализа научных публикаций, официальных информационно-аналитических материалов, результатов экспертных оценок исследуются социологические факторы преступности среди несовершеннолетних, дается оценка системе профилактики подростковой преступности.

Цель статьи - рассмотреть наличие на основе исследования вокальных стилей, присущих американской культуре, самобытной, американской школы вокала. Для получения результата в статье использованы методы - теоретический, сравнительный, аналитический. Автором проведено глубокое, историческое исследование зарождения, становления и современного состояния вокальных стилей, присущих американской культуре в целом. Была анализирована степень влияния иных культурных традиций музыки и вокала на американскую вокальную культуру. В результате подробного исследования можно сделать вывод, что американский вокал сформировался под существенным влиянием европейской и африканской культур. Несмотря на наличие довольно специфических музыкальных и вокальных жанров, говорить о существовании самобытной американской школы вокала преждевременно.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has garnered significant attention over the past decade. This expansive project promises lucrative opportunities and a potential boost to global trade. However, infrastructure, policy, and strategic challenges pose risks to its international success. This study examines the forces driving the growth of e-commerce supply chain companies participating in the BRI, focusing on China and Russia as research context. Using the Value Chain theory, we explain how combination of its primary and support activities influences the development of international supply chains within the BRI. We employ a multilinear regression model to test the proposed framework, with an ANOVA model to verify the robustness of our findings. The results reveal that primary and support activities have different significance within BRI collaboration. Exogenous factors, particularly industrial and municipal policies, as well as infrastructural development, are the key drivers of e-commerce success in the BRI supply chains. This study contributes to the growing body of literature on the BRI by providing empirical evidence of the factors influencing e-commerce growth in participating countries. Our findings offer insights for firms and policymakers seeking to capitalize on the opportunities presented by the BRI and highlight the areas requiring attention to ensure its long-term viability and success.

Stabilizing the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to protect the populace from the adverse effects of inflation necessitates appropriate measures at both political and economic governance levels. This study examines the impacts of imports (IM) and exports (EX) on inflation (CPI) in Afghanistan using data from 1990 to 2023. The findings from the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model indicate that both IM and EX significantly impact CPI in the short and long term. A robustness check employing the Kernel-based Regularized Least Squares (KRLS) machine learning technique further validates these results. The analysis confirms that international trade has a substantial and positive effect on CPI. Additionally, in the context of Afghanistan, political instability acts as a positive moderator, amplifying the influence of imports and exports on inflation. The study concludes that the country requires a reevaluation of its policies regarding exchange rates and economic growth to mitigate the negative effects of imports, exports, and political volatility on the stability of the CPI.

This research aims to investigate the influence of stock market volatility and liquidity turnover on returns in the emerging markets of Middle East and North Africa (MENA countries) using the interaction of global economic policy uncertainty index and exchange rate as a moderating variable. The paper employs panel quantile regression with daily data from January 1, 2000 to August 30, 2024 and a panel quantile regression sensitivity analysis. The findings suggest that the U. S. economic policy uncertainty index was markedly negative; the negative and significant interaction coefficient between the variables of exchange rate fluctuations and worldwide economic policy uncertainty indicates that stock returns of the MENA markets dropped substantially in response to international economic policy uncertainty; the more extensively the exchange rate fluctuated, the lower were the returns. Empirical evidence reveals shifting dynamics in the impact of short-term interest rate volatility on returns as we move from the period before the pandemic outbreak to the post-pandemic era. The study has notable implications for financial investors. Markets’ response to interest rate volatility cannot be predicted with high degree of certainty because the market reacts spontaneously to adjustments in the short-term interest rate even when market players operate rationally and base their decisions on all available information regarding stock prices. As a result, investors may choose to consider selecting shorter-life alternative equities as a long-term hedge against interest rate volatility risk. The MENA countries’ central monetary authorities and governments should work jointly to maintain stock market stability by enacting measures to make stock exchanges and the equity markets more resilient to the negative effects of uncertainty brought on by foreign economic policy, even as exchange rate volatility rises. Additionally, international business entities and traders could also shield themselves against international economic policy-related risk of uncertainty in the midst of currency volatility given the current research.