Svetlana Lobova

• Professor at Altai State University

This article is aimed at developing a target SAP-LAP model for the sustainable development of Russian universities in the Decade of Science and Technologies. To achieve this, we used the methods of trend analysis and correlation analysis of the flexibility and sustainability of Russian universities in 2013–2022. The key question of the paper is how...

In the modern conditions of globalisation, universities find themselves in the conditions of large international competition. The national programs of socio- economic development of most countries, including Russia, envisage large requirements to universities to drivers of the development of the “knowledge society”, the innovative a n d digital eco...

The digital economy's neo-industrialization self-accelerates resource consumption and wide automatization inevitably envisage a technological leap. The article contributes conceptually and empirically to a systemic vision of blockchain to sort out climate change challenges and clean energy transition and simultaneously increase the productivity and...

The article aims to define the role of human resources in the transition to Business 4.0 and identify the requirements for HRM (Human Resources Management) for this role’s performance. This paper determines the targeted set of characteristics of human resources (distinct traits, skills, and competencies) necessary for the transition to Business 4.0...

This article reveals a new and little-studied aspect of labour economics - the quality of working life. The author's definition of the quality of working life is proposed, which opens an original view of human resources - from the standpoint of the workers themselves. The specified author's view of human resources is based on the existing concept o...

This paper aims to study the international experience (in the aspect and taking into account the specifics of regions of the world) integrating the SDGs into corporate strategies and to identify the following: (1) supported SDGs (UN standards); (2) implemented measures of corporate social responsibility to support the SDGs and (3) approach from the...

The paper studies successful global practices of responsible agriculture for sustainable development. The authors develop an alternative methodological approach to studying responsible agricultural practices for sustainable development. The new approach involves using regression analysis to find the dependence of the index of corporate environmenta...

The purpose of this paper is to substantiate the perspectives and to develop recommendations for the optimization of labor in the interests of employees and employers from the positions of efficiency and quality for the scientific support for implementing SDG 8. To determine the sustainability of human resources management in the interests of emplo...

This paper investigates international experiences and perspectives on how entrepreneurs can improve management practices while minimizing the COVID-19 pandemic’s social drama. The paper probes how companies deal with the myriad challenges they face amid the unfolding pandemic and how these processes’ economic and cultural dimensions may exert an en...

The paper aims to establish a framework strategy for developing regenerative environmental management based on smart agriculture. The methodological research is a program-targeted approach to strategic planning. The use of this approach is explained by the fact that it allows for achieving the greatest detailing of the developed strategy due to a c...

The paper aims to conduct a systematic scientific interpretation of the fundamentals of the concept of agriculture by defining the concept, its essence, structure, and directions of development of smart agriculture, as well as their benefits. The authors apply the method of structural–functional analysis to analyze the structure of smart agricultur...

The paper aims to develop the concept of responsible smart agriculture to maximize its contribution to the sustainable development of modern economic and ecological systems. The authors use the method of regression analysis to determine the dependence of the results on the selected key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their corresponding in...

The paper aims to distinguish and justify the transition from digital to smart agriculture during the innovative development of agriculture at the junction of technological modes in the conditions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The authors use correlation analysis to identify differences in the correlation of digital and smart agriculture wit...

This paper aims to develop an algorithm for the transition to responsible smart agriculture for the sustainable development of modern economic and ecological systems. The authors use the methods of logical and structural–functional analysis and the method of graphic representation of scientific knowledge and information. As a result, the authors de...

The paper aims to examine smart agriculture as part of modern economic and ecological systems and determine to what extent the available directions (climate-smart agriculture and smart environmentally responsible agriculture) of its development are involved. The authors used the method of calculating arithmetic averages and the method of comparativ...

Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to study the consequences of development of smart production in regions that implement the resource-based models of economic growth, for ecological safety and climate change and to determine financial limitations on this path by the example of Russia’s regions in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and cr...

The goal of this paper is to prove the necessity for a more thorough consideration and more active use of the modern ICTs for the technological support for the practical implementation of the SDGs’ ecological block in the aspect of the increase of energy efficiency and environmental pollution control. The originality of this paper is as follows: it...

Purpose: We seek the goal of formation of a systemic scientific vision of social entrepreneurship in the unity of its manifestations: as non-commercial and socially responsible business. Design/methodology/approach: Two research tasks are solved in order to reach the set goal. 1st task: developing a methodological approach to classification of comp...

Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to determine the possibility to use corporate social responsibility as a universal criterion of assigning commercial business to social entrepreneurship in the market economy. Design/methodology/approach: The authors form a selection of countries, which includes developed and developing countries with the hig...

This paper aims at determining the influence of digitalization on quality of labor in developing countries. Originality and novelty of this research consist, firstly, in specifying the characteristics and systemic treatment of quality of labor in view of the priorities of all interested parties-entrepreneurship, employees, and government. Secondly,...

The article seeks the goal of substantiating the advantages for developing countries and developing a scientific and methodological approach "Pay for Quality" (P4Q) as a new form of stimulation and payment for work. Originality and novelty of this research consists, firstly, in determining and substantiating the advantages and the logic of selectin...

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to study the experience of sustainable development of modern Russian regions and to identify the optimal financial support of Industry 4.0 as the basis for environmental safety of various types of regions. Design/methodology/approach: In order to study the experience of regions of different types, a typology of...

The purpose of the paper is to determine the perspectives of increase of labour efficiency in Industry 4.0 for stimulating the pleasure economy in developing countries. The authors use regression analysis for determining the dependence of the index of happiness on labour efficiency and the dependence of labour efficiency on the index of Industry 4....

Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to determine the scenarios of development of the modern digital economy depending on the combination of social and technical progress and to model their implementation in developed and developing countries. Design/methodology/approach: Regression analysis is used for determining the dependence of social progr...

Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to determine new institutions of the educational services market in the conditions of the digital economy and to determine the factors of these institutions’ formation and perspectives of managing these factors for quick completion of the process of digitalization of the educational services market in develop...

The growing consumption of resources in a linear economy, the associated negative impact of anthropogenic factors, and the incredibly large volumes of waste determine an increasing number of arguments for turning to a circular economy. The principles of the circular economy are designed to ensure sustainable consumption and production processes. Th...

Online courses are changing the landscape of higher education. However, their adoption by the teaching community of Russian universities has not yet been fully studied. The conducted sociological research made it possible to assess the involvement of Russian university lecturers in the processes of digitalization of education, to determine the moti...

This book is the very first book-length study devoted to the advances in technological development and systems research in cooperative economics. The chapters provide, first of all, a coherent framework for understanding and applying the concepts and approaches of complexity and systems science for the advanced study of cooperative networks and par...

The purpose of the paper consists in determining the contribution of transition to Industry 4.0 into formation of the pleasure economy in developing countries and in developing the recommendations for regulation of this process. The research is performed based on the whole totality of the indicators that are used during calculation of the index of...

The formation and development of the university's personnel potential is one of the conditions for joining the project to support higher education organizations announced by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in June 2020. The project is called the Strategic Academic Leadership Program. The fulfillment of this condition...

This article explores different scenarios of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in Russia. The relevance of the research and the range of problems addressed in it consist in the fact that Russia is not fully realizing the potential of innovative economic development. AI can accelerate the innovative development of Russia's Economy, but it en...

Purpose The purpose of the research is to determine the current contradictions and perspectives of convergence of social development and economic growth for the purpose of formation of the scientific and methodological basis of targeted and efficient state regulation of these processes, which would allow for their harmonization and systemic acceler...

Purpose The purpose of the work is to solve the set problem and to study the competition and perspectives of division of labor of humans and machines during creation of intangible assets in Industry 4.0. Design/methodology/approach The research is performed with the help of regression and comparative analysis by building regression curves and with...

The authors argue that the contemporary scholarship on hydro energy in Russia lacks a comprehensive overview of development trends, global and regional challenges, and future prospects in connection with the ongoing processes in other sectors of the national economy. Consequently, this paper addresses the gap existing in the scholarship by providin...

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to determine the current position of Russia in the modern global economic system through the prism of the methodology of the theory of growth poles of economic growth and to create a strategy of increasing the global competitiveness of the Russian economy and Russia’s becoming a new growth vector of the global...

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to determine the place and role of local entrepreneurial structures in the process of acceleration of growth of the modern global economy and to substantiate the preferential directions (stimulation or restraint) of state and supra-national regulation of further development of local entrepreneurship. Methodolo...

During the transitional period since 1992 until today, many transformed and new legal forms of business were established in Russia. The main objective of this chapter is to analyse the effect of legal form of agricultural enterprises on efficiency of crop production in the Kulunda Steppe in Altai Krai in 2008–2012. We analyse statistical data colle...

Purpose: The purpose of the chapter is to study the process of creating highly efficient jobs in the cyber economy through the integration of AI and employees’ mastering new digital competencies.

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to determine the perspectives of diversification of educational services in the conditions of industry 4.0 on the basis of artificial intelligence (AI) training, determine the consequences of this process for academic and teaching staff and to develop recommendations for its practical implementation. Design/meth...

In this paper, we review forty seven best papers on digitalization of the Russian fuel and energy complex. All the papers are written in Russian and published in a number of Russian academic journals that are mostly distributed via closed national library systems and, consequently, are not available for foreign scholars interested in studying Russi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to substantiate the perspectives and to develop recommendations for managing digital modernization of regional markets of educational services in the conditions of formation of Industry 4.0 by the example of modern Russia. Design/methodology/approach The methodological basis of the research consists of the hypo...

This paper presents a rich collection of data used to construct an energy security performance index of the eight countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Namely, the index covers Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. The data include results of Z-score normalization of...

Purpose The purpose of the work is to determine the basic principles of “conflict-free” development of socio-economic systems. Methodology The theoretical and methodological platform for the research includes the principles of crisis management of economic systems, proclaimed within the theory of economic cycles and the theory of economic growth –...

The paper critically reviews the existing energy efficiency policies in the construction and housing sector of Russia, focusing on the following: (i) the government management system; (ii) technological regulations; (iii) financial incentives and funding; (iv) and supporting mechanisms. The methodology used by the Government of Russia to specifical...

Purpose: The purpose of the work is to develop a model of formation of the omnichannel sales system by a modern company for execution of individual orders of consumers with the help of technologies of Industry 4.0. Methodology: The methods of induction, deduction, logical analysis, synthesis, and modeling of socio-economic processes and systems and...

Purpose: The purpose of the article consists in conceptual substantiation of automatization of the labor resources market in the age of the Internet of Things and development of recommendations for risk management of this process. Methodology: In this article, the process of automatization of the labor resources market in the age of the Internet of...

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to determine the perspectives of optimization of the agrarian market and provision of food security on the basis of digital technologies and to substantiate the necessity for development of wireless technologies of digital data transfer for this. Methodology: The following methods are used: logical and structu...

The paper addresses the gap existing in the scholarship and provides an analysis of the energy security performance made by the group of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) over the total of 25 years, from 1990 to 2015. The research is based on a comprehensive approach to understanding energy security as the total of four dimensi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the possibilities and barriers of the practical application of internationally recognized diplomas of higher education. Design/methodology/approach The authors used SWOT analysis for determining preconditions and barriers as well as possibilities and threats that are related to the provision and pr...

Purpose The working hypothesis of this research is that specifics of activities of university that provides remote education does not allow using the same evaluation criteria for assessment of its competitiveness that allow assessing competitiveness of university that provides traditional education. The purpose of this paper is to verify the offere...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of remote education on the consumer value of university education by the example of modern Russia. Design/methodology/approach The authors determine the consumer value of university education in modern Russia in the conditions of the availability of predominantly traditional education;...

The purpose of the work is to determine and substantiate the methods of digitization of the Russian economy with the help of new Internet technologies. The authors apply the methods of trend and regression analysis of the indicators of development of digital economy and the Internet in Russia in 2010–2017 and the developed formula which supposes ca...

The purpose of the article is to study the essence, tendencies, and perspectives of development of the Internet tools of development of knowledge economy by the example of modern Russia. For determining the essence and tendencies of knowledge economy development in modern Russia under the influence of the Internet development, the authors use the m...

The purpose of the article is to study the actual tendencies in the Russian labor market and to study the essence and causal connections of the Russian labor market as a result of development of Internet technologies. The authors use the method of trend analysis for determining the value and direction of the change of the key indicators of the Russ...

The purpose of this chapter is to study successful experience of formation of Industry 4.0 in the countries of the world. As developed countries proclaimed the strategic course at practical implementation of the concept of Industry 4.0 and achieved the highest progress in its formation, they were selected as the objects for this research. According...

The purpose of the article is to study the transformation changes in the system of professional competences of modern specialist in the conditions of knowledge economy’s formation and formation of Industry 4.0 and to develop the innovational approach to its study and preparation. Methodology of this approach is based on application of competence-ba...

Transition to Industry 4.0 in the 21st century takes place in the conditions of past industrial revolutions of the 19th–20th centuries, which were accompanied by transformation of the system of public production. Technologies change very quickly, creating new factors of formation of not only inter-sectorial and inter-country, but also inter-subject...

Purpose This work is aimed at studying the essence of taxation management at a modern company, consideration (by the example of modern Russia) of accessible means of tax optimization, determination of related problems, and development of the optimization algorithm of conduct of taxation management at a modern company. Methodology The research is ba...

The chapter dwells on theoretical foundations of the shadow economy, considers the types of existence and growth of the shadow sector, evaluates the scale and role of the shadow economy, and studies pros and cons of existence of the shadow economy, as well as peculiarities of the model rows of measuring the shadow economy, related to tax evasion at...

The purpose of the work is to study the process of shift of the global investment flows in the conditions of the digital economy formation and to develop the concept of attraction of direct foreign investments into Russia’s economy in the conditions of the digital economy formation. The authors use the methods of regression and correlation analysis...

The purpose of the work is to determine the current state and perspectives of informatization of the Russian society in the aspect of increase of global competitiveness of Russia’s economy, by its informatization. The authors use the method of comparative analysis for comparing the level of informatization of the Russian society to the level of the...

The purpose of the research is to determine distortions in the work of the theory of costs in the conditions of digital economy and to develop the optimized formula of evaluation of cost of benefits that allows achieving high precisions and objectivity of evaluations results and balancing interests of all interested parties. The work uses the metho...

The purpose of the work is to determine the current cost and value of human capital in modern Russia and to develop recommendations for increasing them in the interests of quick formation of the digital economy. For that, the authors use the methods of regression and correlation analysis. As a result, it is concluded that low level and instability...

The purpose of the work is to determine the current influence of the process of digitization of economy on labor efficiency in different countries and to determine the perspectives of growth of labor efficiency in the conditions of the digital economy and to develop recommendations for activating this process. It is achieved with the help of regres...

The paper analyzes energy security performance made by the Russian Federation in 1990-2015 on the basis of an aggregated index that includes the total of four dimension, namely (a) energy “affordability” and (b) “availability,” (c) “energy and economic efficiency” and (d) “environmental stewardship.” Each energy dimension is operationalized with th...

The paper critically reviews Russia’s energy efficiency policies in the fuel and energy complex, one of the most important parts of the economy of Russia, since 2012 till 2016. Since Russia’s economy is very energy intensive and has a great potential of increasing its energy efficiency, the role of such policies in the fuel and energy complex is of...

Economic growth is one of the basic parts of the modern economic theory, as it reflects the targeted direction and dynamics of economic systems’ development.

The goal of this work is to research the corruption component of innovative activities in modern Russia from the standpoint of economic criminology and to develop recommendations for reducing it with the purpose of facilitating innovative economy. The authors use structural-functional, systemic, problem and logical analysis, methods of statistical...

Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to determine the basic institutes of well-balanced information economy and compile its institutional model. Approach The research methodology is based on the methods of the new institutional economic theory. The authors determine the most important qualitative characteristics of the innovational model of a we...

The paper focuses on the significance of energy security in the general structure of Russia’s national security. Given the importance of the fuel and energy complex in the economy of Russia, we review the main provisions of the Energy Security Doctrine of Russia, which was adopted in the year of 2012 and became one of the key strategic documents on...

The goal of this article is to define the main trends and possible ways of further development of the fuel and energy complex (FEC) in the Russian economy. The following tasks were solved to achieve this goal: To determine the place of the Russian FEC in the world economy, to assess the results achieved in implementing the energy strategy, and to i...

The purpose of this article is to identify promising economic incentives for creating high-performance jobs based on the latest Internet technologies in modern Russia and developing appropriate practical recommendations. To achieve this, the authors use the method of factor analysis, with the help of which they determine the extent and direction of...