Month: June 2020

ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL AS A CRITERION FOR EVOLUTION OF THE MESOECONOMIC SYSTEM

Olga MYZROVA

D.Sc. in Economics, Professor; Department of Economic Security and Innovation Development, Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov, Saratov, Russia

myzrova.stus@bk.ru

Larisa SERDYUKOVA

D.Sc. in Economics, Professor; Department of Economic Security and Innovation Development, Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov, Saratov, Russia

serdyukova.stus@ro.ru

Elena LABAZNOVA

Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor; Director of Institute of Social and Production Management, Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov, Saratov, Russia

labaznova.stus@ro.ru

Abstract

Under current conditions of economic development a constant and timely research into the ongoing internal and external changes, affecting the accumulation of innovative potential, as well as degree of its utilization, will speed up the processes connected with upgrading competitive advantages and economic growth rate. The aim of the work is offer methodological tools employed to estimate the innovative potential of the mesoeconomic system as a criterion which ensures development in a given direction. The results of research proved that the ability and determination to develop innovative activity is determined by the accumulated aggregate potential of the mesoeconomic system as a whole, which can be estimated across the sections including infrastructure and legal regulations, innovation and production, education and research, as well as finance and investment. The results of research were tested based on the analysis of innovation potential of Saratov region as a mesoeconomic system.

Keywords: Innovation potential, infrastructure and law, production and innovation, scientific and educational, investment and finance

JEL classification: O10, O52

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HOW CITIES IN INDIA CAN ATTRACT MORE RURAL POPULATION?

Sabyasachi TRIPATHI

Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 11 Myasnitskaya St., 101000, Moscow, Russia

sabya.tripathi@gmail.com

Abstract

The low level of rural to urban migration needs to boost up for a higher rate of urbanization and economic development in India.  In this paper, we use cross-section data models to investigate the relevant determinants of rural to urban migration at the city level in India in 2001. City-level analyses show that employment opportunities and availability of infrastructure facilities pull people from rural areas to urban areas; however, a higher level of living cost, poverty, and inequality discourage migration. India’s abundant rural resources such as land and labor need to reallocate to the urban areas to increase productivity and economic growth. In this context, we suggest that management of poverty, inequality, job creation, provision of better infrastructural facilities are essential at the city level to promoting rural to urban migration in India.

Keywords: Urbanization, rural to urban migration, urban economic growth, India

JEL classification: R12, O10, O15

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FORMS OF INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNEMENTS APPLIED BY FOREIGN COMPANIES OPERATING IN ALBANIA

Albana BORIÇI (Begani)

Assiociate Professor, Faculty of Economy, University “Luigj Gurakuqi”, Shkoder, Albania

albana.borici@unishk.edu.al

Alba BERBERI

PhD, Faculty of Economy, University “Luigj Gurakuqi”, Shkoder, Albania

alba.berberi@unishk.edu.al

Abstract

Various authors argue that, in today’s highly competitive global business environment, the effective management of international human resources, is imperative for the MNCs[1]’ ability to appropriately identify and fulfill markets’ demands, to continuously innovate and consequently to differentiate from their competitors. Within the context of international human resources management (IHRM), global staffing, has been receiving particular attention among researchers, for almost three decades, firstly focusing on expatriates’ management and more recently on new forms of international assignments. Nevertheless, discussions on the field of IHRM as well as the issue of global staffing are quite new and rare in the Albanian management literature, despite the growing number of foreign companies investing and operating in Albania. Due to this literature gap, especially regarding the new forms of international transfers, the purpose of this paper is to make the first step in understanding the actual forms of international assignments used by foreign companies in Albania. Accordingly, the paper is built as an exploratory study, based on three main pillars. At first, it aims to present the various forms of international transfers MNC’s use. Second, it tries to explore, through the use of case studies, if any of these forms is applicable by foreign companies in Albania. And third, it aims to set a base for raising questions for future research in this specific topic. The primary research instrument used for the purposes of this paper is the semi-structured interview, conducted with the HRM officials at the headquarters of the companies selected as case studies, or the manager of the HR department of these companies’ subsidiaries in Albania. Given the exploratory nature of the study and the fact that it belongs to a quite new topic in the Albanian literature, several foreign companies operating in our country, belonging to different sectors, such as banking, production, insurance, education and telecommunication, have been subject of interviews with HRM staff. However, only the interview results of two of these case studies are presented in details in the paper.

Keywords: expatriates, international assignments, foreign companies, Albania

JEL classification: M160

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[1] MNC-multinational company