The actuality of the paper is due to the intensification of the strategic, geopolitical, economic, ecological and other challenges to the Russian Arctic’ industrial development which requires the State to respond to them. Thus, the improvement of the Industrial policy (IP) realized in the region and the determination of the opportunities to boost its effects are among the arctic agenda’ issues. The analysis and the assessment of the effectiveness of the course in practice form the objective of the present paper, with its tasks to define the opportunities to elevate the policy’ effectiveness. To solve the above problems, the authors used the general scientific research methods: analysis, synthesis, logical, dialectical, comparative and others. Their application to study the IP in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF) resulted in the identification of a number of shortcomings when the policy’ development and implementation, i. e. the use of quantitative indicators of IP efficiency developed by the authors with the managerial factor accounted; the consideration of the continuity when changing the stages of strategic management; the compulsory use of the information support to the course as a special system that allows one to monitor constantly the effectiveness of IP and identify opportunities to improve it at the system level, as well as the recommendations to accomplish these possibilities.

The study’s relevance is explained that nowadays, Russian oil and gas companies are under the pressure of some negative factors and circumstances that adversely affect both their activities and the national economy entirely. All this dictates the need for a thorough understanding and elaboration of the current situation for the subsequent adoption of effective measures and management decisions strategic. The purpose of the paper is to form a concept and show new promising areas for diversifying the activities of Russian oil and gas companies. The authors used theoretical tools that combine deduction methods, induction, analogy, generalization, and classification. Also, the authors applied such empirical approaches as comparison, observation, and description. As a result, the work summarized an experience and analyzed key aspects of diversification of high-tech Russian and foreign companies in an ecosystem approach to making a business. The authors planned conceptual principles and proposed a model for managing the activities of domestic oil and gas enterprises. There have been carried out the example of PJSC Gazprom, an analysis of the current organizational and economic activities of a Russian oil and gas enterprise, which gave a possibility to identify the main prerequisites and reasons for its diversification. With the help of the data obtained, new trends for the diversification of the business of domestic oil and gas companies from this sector are substantiated. That is an important strategic decision, since the economic results of these enterprises are of decisive importance for the economic stability of Russia.

The relevance of the paper is determined by the authors’ intentions to solve the problems of national economic strategy to a greater extent than issues of purely academic interest, since the effectiveness of domestic strategic planning, despite the efforts actively made to organize this process, including in terms of legal regulation, is clearly insufficient. The principal method of research is the comparison of existing legislative provisions with each other, with elements of foreign experience and with the actual state of things, and their linking into a single logic. The authors analyzed system and tactical problems of the strategic planning and management, considering the involvement of public authorities in this process. System problems include the absence of both a hierarchy of documents and an analytical planning entity of high capacity, as well as a lack of performers’ competencies. Tactical problems include the unsatisfactory state of affairs at the municipal level and the overload of the strategic planning system of inferior quality documents. The primary task of the study is to determine the fundamental ways to resolve systemic and tactical problems. Separately, the authors highlight an importance of introducing the public authority legal category that is going to synchronize strategies of all its levels in the future. Based on the analysis of the internal logic of the development of a strategic planning and management system, as well as the best practices of foreign experience, the authors conclude that the state system of strategic audit. According to the results of the study, this system is inadequate to the tasks of effective implementation of the state strategy. Also, the authors concluded the need for digitalization of strategic planning to reconstruct existing connections, methods of interaction and the use of new, informational analysis methods. The practical significance of the research is determined by the possibility of applying the authors’ recommendations being in the normative regulation of the process of domestic strategic planning and management.

The paper considers modern forms of flexible organization’s management systems in Russia. The aim of the research is to study the necessity and features of flexible management systems use for self-organization of employees’ work, as well as the consequences of the transition from rigid hierarchies to flexible ones. The author solved the following tasks: he described the formation of a new employee and his political behavior; analyzed the new “shop” structures that have appeared in the Russian Federation and their struggle for social rights. The study described experiments of domestic companies with “turquoise” practices and revealed specific features of self-organization in Russia. Also, the author explored flexible methods used not just in management hierarchies but also to coordinate the implementation of projects, build information structures, as well as to organize the financing of innovations in organizations. The study used the method of comparative analysis of the existing practice of applying digitalization in the economy, as well as theoretical approaches to understanding its essence. As a result, it was shown that industrial enterprises caught in the digital transformation zone had to use flexible management practices for innovative development (at least in terms of their information systems development). Nevertheless, not all of them are universal and lead to increased efficiency. The paper reveals the role of a human factor as the most important component in the innovative company management, since self-organization and implementation of changes require special personality characteristics.

Nowadays, the society faces with financial and economic risks which play a special role in the diversity of risks. In the most general form, they affect the amount of available financial resources that can meet the current needs of the population and spread new living standards. The purpose of the study is to analyze the affection of financial and economic risks on social growth and to develop recommendations for creating a mechanism for managing them in the Russian health care system. For this goal achievement, the author has identified several tasks clarifying the approach to determining financial and economic risks in this paradigm, as well as identifying measures to change financing Russian health care. The methodological base: systemic; comparative analysis; synthesis; socio-economic and statistical methods of data analysis. The theoretical and practical significance of the study lies in an integrated system growth for managing financial and economic risks, which unites different economic entities, as well as in determining measures to change the financing mechanisms of the Russian health care system. The specialists can use the results obtained in subsequent work on the problems of risk management at the level of corporate organizations, state agencies, and society.

The paper analyzes ways of the informal economy cutback in the Republic of Uzbekistan, used in the tax sphere. The purpose of the study is to summarize the tax measures to solve this problem. During past few years, there have been taken certain steps in this direction, such as concessions for small businesses in catering, reducing the turnover tax rate in the real estate business, holding large-circulation “check” lotteries with valuable prizes, bringing construction industry workers into the legal field, digitalization of tax administration. According to the authors, the proposed tools correspond both to the practices characteristic of foreign experience and to the conditions peculiarities for making business in Uzbekistan. Also, the authors identified some directions for improving the state tax policy in counteracting the spread of the informal economy: focusing on reducing cash turnover through the use of tax deductions for personal income tax and VAT refunds on purchases; the overall tax culture development; digitalization of the tax reporting procedure; improving a legal status the regulation of the self-employed citizens; initiation of a single tax account mechanism. The scientific novelty lies in the research methodology. Based on a comparative legal analysis, the experience of various countries is used to illustrate the features of tax measures applied in practice to reduce the informal economy. The authors assume the theoretical results of the work will embody in proposals for improving the national tax legislation and will improve the Russian economic and legal doctrine, as well as the level of legal research within the EAEU and the CIS.

The paper considers the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to assess the attractiveness of territorial entities of the Russian Federation in terms of the movement of human capital. The relevance of the study is because of the uneven distribution of human capital, the high rate of its migration from underdeveloped regions and municipalities, and the insufficient effectiveness of the policy pursued by regional authorities and local self-government. The purpose of the research is to develop a GIS monitoring of the socio-economic attractiveness of municipalities to determine the movement of human capital. The research methodology is based on the use of complex and statistical analyses, methods of geo-information modeling. The information basis of the study is the data of the regulatory legal framework of reference systems, official statistics of the Republic of Bashkortostan, and investment passports of municipal districts and cities of the region. The authors justify and formulate a list of requirements and limitations for the GIS software and tool complex. Also, the authors identified and disclosed the requirements for GIS information support: reliability, completeness, relevance, consistency, understandability (unambiguity). There have been generated major conditions for the correct operation of the GIS software for monitoring the attractiveness of municipalities, considering the limitations of the current legislation. The research developed and described the functional basis of the GIS, which includes two key components with corresponding structural elements and tools: an organizational block and a modeling and visualization block. The authors proposed a list of key statistical (attribute) and spatial data and the attractiveness coefficient of a municipality as a criterion for assessing the opportunities for the development of human capital in a particular territory. The authors developed the scheme of the algorithm for the functioning of GIS monitoring the attractiveness of municipalities of the Republic of Bashkortostan, as well as they introduced the interface and user tools. The proposed GIS allows users to search for the municipality with the subsequent output of information about it containing the values of demographic, migration, socio-economic and environmental indicators in tabular and graphical forms. The results of the research make it possible to predict the level of attractiveness of municipalities in the short and medium term, depending on the chosen governance strategy and also allow zoning of municipalities by groups. The authors conclude they developed GIS monitoring of socio-economic attractiveness of municipalities to determine the movement of human capital in the Republic of Bashkortostan can serve as the basis for creating a fully functional decision support system at the regional level in all subjects of the Russian Federation.

Decent work governance for modern socio-economic systems is a key goal and a common operating methodology. The current literature does not fully disclose the questions posed, which require the proposal of system management models, formed considering the factors of the external and internal environment that determine the characteristics of management in different sectors of the economy. The purpose of the paper is to update the modern provisions of the decent work theory, the formation of a basic model for managing decent working conditions and its substantive justification on the example of Russian Railways enterprises. For this purpose, the author describes the implementation research work using the methods of interdisciplinary analysis of literature and practical experience, as well as a regulatory framework, professional recruitment, including for the transport industry, strategic documents and concepts in responsible work. Also, the research used the method of counter modeling, which represents the decomposition of the theoretical model into the results of the production conditions, financial and socio-economic activities of a particular enterprise. As a result of the work carried out, the author built a model for managing suitable labor at the enterprise based on the scheme of suitable labor management, also relying on empirical data and the regulatory framework of Russian Railways. This model has become a methodological basis for analyzing the situation of decent labor management at the enterprises of Russian Railways. The data obtained testify to the operation of managerial, legal, supervisory, institutional and financial mechanisms for managing suitable work. The practice of applying the results of the study led both to positive results and identified problem areas that cause socio-economic risks in implementing personnel policy measures of Russian Railways.

XXII International Conference on the History of Management Thought and Business “Development of views on regional Economic management in the countries of the world: History and modernity” was held on July 1 and 2, 2022 at the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The event was announced in the informational paper of the journal “Management Sciences” [2022;12(1):96–98]. The participants at the conference were asked the following questions:

— Why did ideas and concepts of regional economic management arise and develop?

— How did the authors’ views of the concepts of regional governance differ and what were the factors and reasons for changing these views?

— Which way and what aspect languages (political, economic, socio-cultural, etc.) were measured and estimated the concepts and results of conflict governance in managing the economies of regions in various countries of the world?

— How and why did the views change on the staffing of regional economic management processes?

Over 90 people attended the conference (in online and offline forms) —  students, masters, graduate students, lecturers, scientists and practitioners from 6 countries. They had read 32 lectures and reports. This paper provides an analytical review of some of them.