Vol 24, No 2 (2024)
Economics
Capital forms multiplication
Abstract
Introduction. Revealing the content of the capital forms multiplication process is significant for modern economic science in theoretical and applied aspects. The political and economic peculiarities of the study are to reveal the essence of capital as a benefit that generates income in various forms. Theoretical analysis. The authors’ point of view is an alternative to the generally accepted point of view on capital as a self-increasing value, as a certain social attitude based on the exploitation of wage labor, and the allocation of forms corresponding to the stages of its circulation as priority functional forms of capital. The authors introduce a new category into scientific circulation – capital forms multiplication. According to the authors’ interpretation, it is an objective process of constant generation of various new forms of manifestation and movement of capital. Empirical analysis. The authors’ approach allows us to single out such a property of capital as autopoiesis, understood as self-building, self-reproduction, self-regulation. The authors’ capital forms classification is presented, where, along with traditional forms of capital (cash, trade, etc.), new types of capital are highlighted and valorized – intellectual, knowledge, information, network, symbolic (image, brand). In recent years, the autopoiesis of capital has manifested itself in the multiplication of such forms as emotional and aesthetic capital. Results. The capital multiplication process is revealed on the basis of its many forms’ analysis, which tend to grow.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):120-127
120-127
On the question of property transformation forms: Theoretical and practical aspects
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Introduction. The transformation of property as a system of complex continuous relations regarding a change in type, form, characteristics and any properties of the property itself is a discussed scientific problem. The purpose of the study is to analyze the property transformation and develop a classification of types of property transformation in modern economic theory and government practice. Theoretical analysis. This paper examines the processes of changing the economic essence of the concept of “property” and transformation of property, distinguishing two types of transformations: macrotransformation and microtransformation of property. Possession, use, disposal should be considered signs of ownership and peculiar conditions. A change in any of these signs – a decrease or increase in relation to a specific property indicates a transformation of the property itself. In cases where the owner receives the right only to dispose of property, transformation of property also occurs under the influence of processes such as easement, emphyteusis, and superficies. Results. Based on the analysis of property transformation processes in retrospect, a conclusion was made about their cyclical nature. Fundamentally new changes in property relations are observed in connection with the formation of post-industrial society. The dominant object of property is information and knowledge, which gradually adopted the characteristics of individual property.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):128-137
128-137
The role of technological entrepreneurship in industry in modern conditions
Abstract
Introduction. The competitiveness of industry in modern conditions is carried out through scientific and technological development. High-tech companies play a key role in solving the main tasks of increasing the competitiveness of Russian economy in accordance with global challenges and priorities of Russia’s scientific and technological development. Theoretical analysis. High-tech production, Industry 4.0 technologies and technological entrepreneurship in modern economy are the main actors in achieving technological sovereignty, the transition to economic growth and technological support for the sustainable development of Russian production systems. The article examines the role of technological entrepreneurship in the transition of industrial enterprises to Industry 4.0 technologies. Empirical analysis. An innovative development dynamics analysis in Russia and foreign countries is carried out, a startup studio is considered as a tool for the development of technological entrepreneurship, as well as the practice of its implementation in Russia and the USA. Results. Based on the results of the study, a number of proposals for the development of technological entrepreneurship in the small and medium-sized enterprise industry sector were formulated and justified.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):138-146
138-146
Management
Platinum group metals sales process: Planning and optimization
Abstract
Introduction. The development of methodological issues of optimizing the activities of mining and metallurgical companies and the sale of platinum group metals are highly relevant in the current market conditions due to sanctions restrictions and the severance of international economic ties. Theoretical analysis. The concept of an optimization model is formulated, the main goals for the sales unit of a mining and metallurgical company are determined, a balanced approach to monthly planning is justified, which involves dividing the sales volume into two parts: under long-term contracts and on the spot market, and the stages of constructing an optimization sales model are developed. Empirical analysis. An optimization model is presented for calculating sales volumes of platinum, palladium and rhodium within two months to obtain maximum operating profit. The model is based on regression modeling of prices for platinum group metals, a cost model built on open data from a Russian mining and metallurgical company. Results. Approbation of the methodology made it possible to justify the sales volumes of platinum group metals in two forecast periods depending on the price environment, which provide the opportunity to increase the total profit of the company under given restrictions.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):147-159
147-159
The role of digitalization in regional economic and tourist space development: The Murmansk region experience
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Introduction. The Murmansk region is the pearl of Arctic tourism, and its tourist and recreational potential is considered in the work. Theoretical analysis. During the theoretical analysis, it was found that a tourist multiplier operates in the economy of the Murmansk region, contributing to the development of the regional tourism industry. At the same time, the acceleration effect in the industry is observed due to the introduction of digital technologies. Empirical analysis. The analysis of the tourism industry economic indicators the Murmansk region gave mixed results. However, the dynamics of many indicators is positive, although it cannot be unequivocally stated that the tourism industry is the flagship industry of the region. At the same time, there is an active application of digitalization achievements in the region, although insufficient. Regional tourist industry facilities use virtual excursions as promotion tools. However, other digitalization mechanisms will also contribute to the popularization of the Murmansk region. In particular, they include conducting excursions through live broadcasts for people with disabilities, producing games with the landscapes of the Kola Peninsula, creating an application with a built-in navigation function along a pre-laid route, and, in the future, building personal routes by amateur tourists independently using this application. Results. Proposals for the introduction of digital technologies into the activities of accommodation facilities, the use of games with locations in the region, and the increase in excursion streams can lead to an acceleration of the cartoon effect in the Murmansk region and increase the tourist flow to the region.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):160-168
160-168
On the issue of the board of directors’ participation in the strategic process under sanctions restrictions
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Introduction. The role and importance of the board of directors in the strategic process has long been considered in practice and in corporate law legislation. Theoretical analysis. The ambiguous distribution of the role and degree of the senior corporate management participation made it possible to identify four models of the board of directors’ participation in the strategic process, which reflect the primacy of the board of directors and the primacy of management in the strategic process. Еmpirical analysis. In the context of sanctions restrictions and the introduction of sectoral and personal sanctions against Russian companies and members of the board of directors and management, the role and importance of the board in the strategic process should change dramatically, since in these conditions the work of the board of directors becomes more complicated and its workload increases. The article proposes a symbiotic model of the board of directors’ active participation in strategic management. Results. A necessary condition for applying the symbiotic model of active participation of the board of directors in the main stages of the strategic process and realizing its advantages is that the joint-stock company has a balanced board of directors, the members of which have competencies in the field of strategic management. Such a council, in the context of sectoral and personal sanctions, should bear increased responsibility for the course of the strategic process, and the advantages of the symbiotic model make it possible to implement a differentiated approach to the participation of the council in strategic management, identify possible areas for improving the situation and fill the formal aspects of the council’s activities with new content.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):169-173
169-173
Lаw
Law, information society, digital sovereignty
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Introduction. The rapid development of digital technologies has led to significant changes in various spheres of public life. The species classification of the modern world is based on the fact that the era of the information society is coming. Its characteristics were defined in the Okinawa Charter of the Global Information Society. Empirical analysis. The author presents an overview of the strategies for innovative technological development adopted in the Russian Federation under the influence of the development of digital technologies. The relevance of the formation of the concept of digital sovereignty is shown. The researcher conducted a comparative legal study which indicated that digital sovereignty was originally presented in the legal systems of the European Union countries. Foreign approaches to the formation of a new legal order, conditioned by the development of digitalization, are outlined. The article highlights the features of the German concept “Industry 4.0”, the Japanese concept “Society 5.0”, and the Chinese concept “Made in China 2025”. Theoretical analysis. The main trend of digitalization is decentralization, which affects not only the economies of countries, but also the public administration system. Its general consequences are highlighted: the emergence of competition between states (which leads to the expansion of axiology, and not just technology); a change in the concept of public administration in the context of growing horizontal connections (the emergence of the concept of “the state as a platform”); priority of data (in electronic form) as a condition for the economic, political and social development of the state. Results. The acceleration of the technological process has an impact on the socio-political sphere. The law does not have time to react to changes; the formed reality itself dictates those rules that are formed outside of political instruments. This also leads to the transformation of traditional state institutions, which forces us to rethink the very understanding of the modern state.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):174-183
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Probation and problems of its implementation in the Russian Federation
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Introduction. On February 6, 2023, the Federal Law “On Probation in the Russian Federation” 10-FZ was adopted. The law is aimed at the effective inclusion of persons subject to criminal penalties into a law-abiding society, as well as at reducing the level of recidivism in the country. With the help of the probation instrument, involving a large number of subjects in the sphere of resocialization work with persons leading a criminal lifestyle and subject to criminal punishment, the legislator believes in achieving the goals of punishment: restoring social justice, correcting convicts and preventing the commission of crimes. Theoretical analysis. While not being a full source of penal law, the law on probation, at the same time, provides the prerequisites for expanding the subject of this branch of law and outlines further directions for the development of the science of the same name. The law provides for executive, penitentiary and post-penitentiary probation; all these types should be carried out on the basis of individual resocialization programs. However, a number of issues require resolution; these include the relationship between the goals of punishment and the goals of probation, as well as identification of the legal statuses of participants in probation relations. Empirical analysis. The legal, organizational, and social aspects of the functioning of the probation system in Russia are analyzed, including interaction with various participants, effectiveness of measures for resocialization and social adaptation of convicts. The use of the concepts of social adaptation, resocialization and social rehabilitation in the law causes difficulties in understanding and can create problems in its implementation. It is proposed to develop detailed regulations on the part of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Federal Penitentiary Service to better implement the powers of probation subjects. Results. The positive direction of the law is beyond doubt, but the legal nature of probation requires further reflection. Its legislative definition resembles criminological prevention, but at the same time it is not such. Therefore, in conclusion, proposals are formulated to improve the legal and organizational components of probation in Russia.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):184-191
184-191
The bodies of the political police of the Saratov province in the late 19th – early 20th centuries: Institutional changes, areas of work and specifi cs of inter-provincial cooperation
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Introduction. The relevance of the chosen research topic is of lasting importance, since the place, role and importance of the political police is always of paramount importance in order to ensure the security of the state and its power structures. Theoretical analysis. During the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, the gendarmerie bodies underwent gradual reform and serious intradepartmental and interregional reorganization. As a result, by the beginning of the last century, two main, interconnected and interacting structures of the political police operated in the Russian Empire – a separate corps of gendarmes (with a network of provincial gendarmerie departments and gendarmerie police departments of railways) and Security (search) departments (points). Empirical analysis. It was revealed that the political police bodies operating in the early twentieth century on the territory of the Saratov province (Saratov Provincial Gendarmerie Department, Tambov-Ural Gendarmerie Police Department of Railways, Saratov Security Department and Volga Region Security Department), which underwent organizational and structural changes in accordance with the directive acts of the authorities, purposefully performed their functions of search, covert supervision and surveillance of unreliable elements, inquiry and political investigation, as well as the execution of court sentences in political cases. Results. The process of reorganization and restructuring of political police bodies at the local level, in particular, in the Saratov province, testifies to the contradictory and ambiguous nature of the ongoing transformations. The empirical material studied shows that the authorities of late imperial Russia failed, to the necessary extent, to create an effective system of political investigation, which was supposed to resist the rapidly developing revolutionary movement at the beginning of the 20th century.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):192-202
192-202
Dual and multiple citizenship in the Russian Federation: Prospects for the development of legal regulation
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Introduction. After the legislative distinction between the concepts of “dual citizenship” and “multiple citizenship”, predicting the prospects for the development of legal regulation of social relations emerging in the field of dual and multiple citizenship, as well as development of practical proposals to consolidate the legal status of persons with multiple citizenship in the Russian Federation, becomes relevant. Theoretical analysis. The author examined the legislation of the Russian Federation regulating the legal status of persons with dual and multiple citizenship, in particular, analyzed the current legislative restrictions and prohibitions established for this category of persons. Empirical analysis. The author studied the problem of exercising electoral rights by citizens of the Russian Federation with multiple citizenship, including the problem of renouncing the citizenship of a foreign state, and analyzed judicial practice on challenging decisions of election commissions of municipalities on the annulment of registration/refusal to register candidates for deputies. Results. The author proposes the concept of the Federal Law “On the legal status of persons with multiple citizenship in the Russian Federation”: legislative consolidation of the concept of “person with multiple citizenship”, formulation of the goals of establishing prohibitions for persons with multiple citizenship, establishment of additional prohibitions for persons with multiple citizenship in the sphere of the use of electoral rights, in particular, the ban on passive suffrage (the right to be elected) in municipal elections, the ban on active suffrage (the right to vote) for persons with multiple citizenship permanently residing outside the Russian Federation.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):203-210
203-210
Issues of legal regulation of import substitution of messengers in the state and municipal service
Abstract
Introduction. Today, in the Russian Federation the authorities face the task of transition to domestic digital solutions at all levels of government. This issue is especially relevant in the conditions of economic sanctions. Theoretical analysis. According to the results of the analysis of the market of digital services that are used in the public authorities of the Russian Federation, we can conclude that in some categories there is still a dependence on the use of foreign solutions. Among such services messengers, video communication services and email clients were singled out. Empirical analysis. On the basis of the analysis, the author concludes that at the moment the issue of the use of a single messenger of Russian development by employees of government bodies has not been solved at the legislative level. Results. As a result of the analysis, to solve the problem, the author proposes to form unified technical requirements to messengers for the authorities, to approve the list of messengers and services authorized for use in the authorities for official communications, to establish a complete ban on the use of foreign messengers for official communications in the authorities and to approve the list of manufacturers of devices from which access to domestic messengers and services is allowed.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):211-218
211-218
The role of propaganda in popularizing and preserving the all-Russian cultural identity of compatriots abroad
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Introduction. As a result of the constitutional reform carried out in 2020, the basic law of the country was supplemented with new norms. They include the provisions of Part 3 of Article 69 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which enshrine guarantees of support for compatriots living abroad. This norm introduces a new category into constitutional legal circulation – “all-Russian cultural identity”, and its preservation is fixed as one of the areas of state activity. Propaganda is interpreted as one of the elements of the mechanism for preserving this identity. The study of all-Russian cultural identity, as well as propaganda in the context of its preservation, is the goal of this work. Theoretical analysis. The term “identity” has been steadily entrenched in domestic legislation and legal science. Its content varies depending on the characteristics of the identity bearer. It has been revealed that the functions of propaganda used to preserve his / her identity depend on the characteristics of the basis for recognizing a person as a compatriot. Еmpirical analysis. The article revealed that neither ethnicity nor citizenship relations are the basis of the nationwide cultural identity of compatriots abroad. The concept under study is based on the cultural (civilizational) code of Russia as a country with a centuries-old statehood, rich history and a multinational people. Propaganda is one of the ways to spread the Russian value and worldview model. Results. The role of propaganda is to form a positive image of the future among compatriots regarding Russia. The upward constitutionalization of relations to support compatriots is due to several factors: the priority of this direction of the Russian national policy; recognition of the identity under study as a legal fact; justification of the new category as confirmation of the civilizational essence of Russia at the constitutional level.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):219-225
219-225
Theoretical and methodological analysis of the legal nature of public control
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Introduction. In modern legal science, there is no universal and uniform approach to defining the concept of “public control”, which predetermines and actualizes the need for a detailed study of the legal nature of this phenomenon, its content and the functions that it performs in the state and society. Theoretical analysis. The analysis of doctrinal approaches to disclosing the content of public control, formed in the system of legal science, allows us to draw a conclusion about a differentiated definition of this phenomenon. On the one hand, public control is considered as a combination of state and municipal types of control, which corresponds to the constitutional and legislative approaches to understanding public power. Another point of view complements the previous perspective with another type of control – public control, which involves the participation of civil society institutions in the implementation of this function of public authority. Empirical analysis. It has been revealed that the concept of “public control” is practically not used in the Russian legislation. At the same time, in judicial practice this category is often used in the texts of decisions of higher courts, but its interpretation, like that in the legal doctrine, is also very heterogeneous. Results. The assessment of the theory and practice of using the concept of “public control” allowed us to come to the following conclusions. The category of “public control”, in contrast to the term of “public power”, does not have a legal meaning, that is, it is not enshrined in the Russian legislation, which leads to the need to identify its theoretical significance only through the analysis of doctrinal approaches established in legal science. Based on the analysis of theoretical approaches to the meaning of public control, as well as materials from judicial practice, it is possible to conclude that this concept is used in a diametrically opposite semantic context. Applying the concept of public power as a combination of state, municipal and public ones, it is proposed to consider public control in a similar context, as a combination of state, municipal and public types of control.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):226-231
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Chronicle of Scholarly Activities
XI International conference on forensic study of weapons
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The article provides an overview of the two-day sessions of the XI International Conference on Forensic Study of Weapons, which was held at Saratov State University on October 17–18, 2023. The conference was attended by ballistics and criminologists experts from Saratov, Moscow, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Armenia, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, the Republic of Belarus. The conference has been held on the basis of Saratov State University since 2011. The main issues of the conference are related to the introduction of modern technologies into forensic studies of firearms, ammunition and traces of their use. Promising methods for studying modern models of firearms, traces of their use, shot products, reconstruction of places of criminal use of fi rearms, identification of fi rearms by traces on fi red bullets and spent cartridges were presented and discussed at the conference. The results of research into the effectiveness of using machine learning methods to automatically compare weapon traces on fi red bullets and cartridges for the purpose of classifying them into fi rearms were presented in a number of reports. Separate reports were devoted to the reconstruction of crime scenes involving the use of fi rearms. The conference confirmed the status of a scientific platform bringing together criminologists, ballistics experts, specialists in the field of information and digital technologies, whose scientific interests are related to the study of weapons, ammunition and traces of their use.
Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Economics. Management. Law. 2024;24(2):232-235
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