Consumer loans and loans to small- and medium-scale businesses as well as appropriateness of credit rationing are examined in the article. The method developed for analysis of heterogeneous samples of borrowers in case of bank’s inability to distinguish the types of borrowers while the latter are unaware of their solvency is presented.

An approach to risk assessment in the coal business describes in the article. A classification of business risks is presented. Case of Kuzbass Fuel Company is risks assessment and shows the mechanisms to overcome them. Some new directions for risk reduction are presented.

The investigation of the world market of ecological equipment is represented at the article. Special attention is given to strategies of development of the countries such as the USA, Germany, and Japan. Those countries are considered as the leaders at the field. Besides, main problems of Russian machinery’s field development are described.

Forecast is the basis of enterprising and management in every sphere, including nature preservation. The water quality of the surface-water bodies is the primary category of the human habitat and a supremely important factor for well being. The extensive environmental degradation, the increase of the anthropogenic load on watercourse and hydraulic facilities wear, lead to the essential water quality deterioration. The article in question offers an evaluation methodology for the System of Local Indicators of the efficiency of the environmental policy of a business entity, based on the environmental audit.

In this paper we consider one of the conditions for innovative development of higher education in the subjects of the Russian Federation – the presence of a system of regional policy in the field of education, science and innovation, defining objectives, trajectory of development of these areas, the resources required to achieve the objectives and mechanisms  of control.

The article reflects the key provisions of Actor-network theory presented by the Paris branch – works of B. Latour,  M. Kallon and their followers. The ideas of social network and interactions through various actants and mediators applied to the analysis of amateur theater groups, their rehearsals and performances which has their own theater existence laws. Analysis of the observations, questionnaires, analysis of documents (passports of theaters) allowed to reveal the activities of theater amateur groups and the specific content of constituting practices.

The paper evaluated the differences of particular indicators and comprehensive quantitative assessments of standards of living in cities of different size and status made on the basis of the proposed  technique. Investigation of dynamics of obtained quantitative estimates of the standard of living showed the increasing polarization of the standard of living in cities with increasing concentration on the poles. The role of the size of the city, its administrative status, as well as intraregional urban structure in the dynamics of inequality of living standards of citizens was studied.

The describes the definition of a sustainable development of municipal education. The main groups of indicators influencing stability of the territory have been analyzed. The maximum allowable values of the one system of indicators have been offered. The analysis the stability of municipal education s of the Republic of Mordovia.

The article is dedicated to the analysis of official approaches to estimation of executive authorities' of the Russian regions activities. It had proved that the institute of the official estimations has a dual nature. It is a tool of monitoring of activity and the generator of incentives  for regional elites simultaneously. As a result of the factorial analysis of algorithms of estimations it is revealed that the specified above incentives don't motivate regional officials to form the regional social and economic policy directed on improvement of quality of life of the population. There were defined the basic vectors of the estimation mechanisms transformation that should be implemented to improve the situation.

This article offers methods of complex evaluation of the marketing innovations. Each component of the marketing innovations potential has a specific use and ensuring of innovation process. Such evaluation allows to make a decision about priority of investments and to heighten the effect of the marketing instrumentations.

This article is devoted to the legal regulation of autonomous institutions. The purpose of this study is to identify the distinctive features and competitive advantages over other autonomous agency organizational and legal form of the institution, in particular the case of budgetary and private institutions. Also talked about the commercial adaptation of  an autonomous institution.

In this article we describe principles and rules for development and introduction of managerial innovations that are used within methodological approach of setting up and implementation of the function of organizational development in the company. By organizational development we mean planning, initiation and implementation of managerial innovations. The function of organizational development is based on organizational policy that is a set of goals, principles, rules, objectives, and implementation of which results in the sought organizational development of the company.

In this article we describe principles and rules for development and introduction of managerial innovations that are used within methodological approach of setting up and implementation of the function of organizational development in the company. By organizational development we mean planning, initiation and implementation of managerial innovations. The function of organizational development is based on organizational policy that is a set of goals, principles, rules, objectives, and implementation of which results in the sought organizational development of the company.