Basis Of Competition Research Articles

PRODUCT QUALITY AS THE BASIS OF COMPETITIVENESS
 OF RUSSIAN ENGINEERING

The low level of competitiveness of domestic equipment significantly reduces consumer demand. This problem can be solved only on the basis of improving the quality level and operational reliability of manufactured machines, which are laid down in the production of equipment. (Research purpose) The research purpose is improving the manufacturing quality and reliability of Russian-made machines and equipment by improving their production and technical service. (Materials and methods) Investigated as initial information and materials the actual data on machines and equipment involved in agricultural production of countries; indicators of the intensity of their use and operational reliability. The following research methods were applied: monographic, comparative assessments, statistical, analysis and synthesis. (Results and discussion) The work is aimed at determining the reasons for the low level of quality of Russian equipment, substantiating the need for innovative development of production systems and technical service of machinery and equipment. It was determined that the basis of the high competitiveness of foreign equipment is the use of a proprietary method of technical service. The expediency of innovative development of the production and technological system and the creation of machine-building firms has been established. Only the company is interested in improving the quality of manufactured equipment, and only the company can organize branded technical service of its products. (Conclusions) The conducted organizational and technological studies have shown that improving the quality of manufacturing and reliability parameters of machinery and equipment based on the developed innovative method of organizing production and technical service will bring Russian engineering to a competitive level and ensure competitiveness and import substitution in technology.

Coexistence of tetragonal and cubic phase induced complex magnetic behaviour in CoMn2O4 nanoparticles

CoMn2O4, known for its extensive range of applications, has been subject to limited investigations regarding its structure dependent magnetic properties. Here, we have examined the structure dependent magnetic properties of CoMn2O4 nanoparticles synthesized through a facile coprecipitation technique and are characterized using x-ray diffractometer, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), RAMAN spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy and magnetic measurements. Rietveld refinement of the x-ray diffraction pattern reveals the coexistence of 91.84% of tetragonal and 8.16% of cubic phase. The cation distribution for tetragonal and cubic phases are (Co0.94Mn0.06)[Co0.06Mn1.94]O4 and (Co0.04Mn0.96)[Co0.96Mn1.04]O4, respectively. While Raman spectra and selected area electron diffraction pattern confirm the spinel structure, both +2 and +3 oxidation states for Co and Mn confirmed by XPS further corroborate the cation distribution. Magnetic measurement shows two magnetic transitions, Tc1 at 165 K and Tc2 at 93 K corresponding to paramagnetic to a lower magnetically ordered ferrimagnetic state followed by a higher magnetically ordered ferrimagnetic state, respectively. While Tc1 is attributed to the cubic phase having inverse spinel structure, Tc2 corresponds to the tetragonal phase with normal spinel. In contrast to general temperature dependent H C observed in ferrimagnetic material, an unusual temperature dependent H C with high spontaneous exchange bias of 2.971 kOe and conventional exchange bias of 3.316 kOe at 50 K are observed. Interestingly, a high vertical magnetization shift (VMS) of 2.5 emu g−1 is observed at 5 K, attributed to the Yafet–Kittel spin structure of Mn3+ in the octahedral site. Such unusual results are discussed on the basis of competition between the non-collinear triangular spin canting configuration of Mn3+ cations of octahedral sites and collinear spins of tetrahedral site. The observed VMS has the potential to revolutionize the future of ultrahigh density magnetic recording technology.

The impact of supportive policy for resource-exhausted cities on carbon emission: Evidence from China

Carbon emissions and natural resources have become the basis of geopolitical competition due to climate change and energy security in recent decades. Whether transformation policies for resource-exhausted cities can reduce carbon emissions while promoting resource conservation provides empirical evidence for the government to promote green and low-carbon development based on place-based policies. This paper is the first study to estimate the causal effects of the Resource-Exhausted City Promotion program on carbon emissions with a difference-in-differences design. We find that this supportive policy significantly leads to a reduction in carbon emissions in resource-exhausted cities, relative to other cities. The negative effect remains unchanged after a battery of robustness checks. Heterogeneous analyses suggest that this policy reduces more carbon emissions in cities with lower dependence on mining industry and eastern cities. Scale effect and technological effect might be two main influencing channels of the negative effect. Our findings add to the literature on the carbon reduction effect of place-based policies and provide empirical evidence and timely policy implications for the sustainable development of resource-exhausted cities.

Adaptive Basis Function Selection Enhanced Multisurrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Production Optimization

Summary Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have become a popular approach for solving reservoir production optimization problems. The radial-basis-function network (RBFN) is a robust surrogate model technology suitable for reservoir development with numerous wells and a long production lifetime. There are several types of basis functions for constructing RBFN models. However, existing research shows that selecting the basis function with competitive performance for the current optimization problem is challenging without prior knowledge. In conventional SAEAs, the basis function is often predetermined, but its prediction accuracy for the problem at hand cannot be guaranteed. Furthermore, canonical SAEAs usually employ only one surrogate model for the entire optimization process. However, relying on a single surrogate model for optimization increases the probability of search direction misdirection due to prediction deviations. In this paper, a novel method named adaptive basis function selection enhanced multisurrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm (ABMSEA) is introduced for production optimization. This method mainly includes two innovations. First, by training and testing different types of basis functions, the one with the best prediction performance is adaptively selected. Second, the ensemble model is constructed using the bootstrap sampling method, comprising multiple global surrogate models based on the selected best basis function. To search for a set of solutions that perform well on multiple surrogates, we employ an efficient multiobjective optimization (MOO) algorithm called nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II). This algorithm uses the surrogates themselves as objective functions, aiming to find solutions that yield favorable results across multiple surrogates. The proposed method improves the efficiency of production optimization while enhancing global search capabilities. To evaluate the effectiveness of ABMSEA, we conduct tests on four 100D benchmark functions, a three-channel model, and an egg model. The obtained results are compared with those obtained from differential evolution (DE) and three other surrogate-model-based methods. The experimental results demonstrate that ABMSEA exhibits an accurate selection of competitive basis functions for the current optimization period while maintaining high optimization efficiency and avoiding local optima. Consequently, our method enables optimal well control, leading to the attainment of the highest net present value (NPV).

KEY FACTORS OF THE QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN ENSURING THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF THE ENTERPRISE

The article studies the key factors of the quality management system in ensuring the international competitiveness of enterprise. It is revealed that the development of enterprise strategy, determination of its strategic goals and key factors of advantages should be carried out by employees of the enterprise familiar with the features, advantages and disadvantages of this enterprise, knowledge of the market and industry in which the enterprise operates. Each industry and each enterprise will be characterized by its own composition of key factors of the advantages of the quality management system. Four groups of key factors of the quality management system in ensuring the international competitiveness of enterprise have been identified: factors of scientific and technical advantages, which are key for the functioning and development of enterprises of high-tech industries and are based on achieving high efficiency of production organization; factors of organizational and managerial advantages of the quality management system, containing factors that are able to ensure high quality management of both production processes and, in general, high quality management of processes and functioning of the enterprise; factors of marketing advantages of the quality management system, which directly reflect those marketing components that ensure the competitiveness of activities and products of the enterprise, including in international economic markets; The factors of advantages of having knowledge and experience of the quality management system, which determine the overall accumulation of knowledge of intellectual human capital and the experience of the enterprise and its employees in the market, are the basis of the competitive potential of the enterprise and ensure the growth of competitiveness of the enterprise both in the domestic market and in the implementation of international economic activity. It is determined that in order to apply the key factors of the quality management system as the basis for competitiveness of enterprise, it is necessary to organize work and focus simultaneously on two components: management of processes of work organization and introduction of changes, as well as on management of personnel and employees.

Melanin-concentrating hormone and orexin shape social affective behavior via action in the insular cortex of rat.

In a social context, individuals are able to detect external information from others and coordinate behavioral responses according to the situation, a phenomenon called social decision-making. Social decision-making is multifaceted, influenced by emotional and motivational factors like stress, sickness, and hunger. However, the neurobiological basis for motivational state competition and interaction is not well known. We investigated possible neural mechanisms through which internal states could shape social behavior in a social affective preference (SAP) test. In the SAP test, experimental rats given a choice to interact with naïve or stressed conspecifics exhibit an age-dependent preference to interact with stressed juvenile conspecifics, but avoid stressed adult conspecifics. First, we assessed the effect of food and water deprivation on SAP behavior. Behavior in the SAP test requires the insular cortex, which receives input from the ingestion-related peptides melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) and orexin neurons of the lateral hypothalamus (LH). This study aimed to evaluate the role of LH and insular MCH and orexin in SAP test. SAP tests were conducted in rats that were sated, food and water deprived or allowed 1 h of access to food and water after 14 h of deprivation (relieved condition). Separate cohorts of sated rats received cannula implants for microinjection of drugs to inhibit the LH or to block or stimulate MCH or orexin receptors in the insula prior to SAP tests or social interaction tests. Food and water deprivation prior to SAP tests with juvenile rats caused a shift in preference away from the stressed rat toward the naïve juveniles. Pharmacological inhibition of LH with muscimol (100 ng/side) abolished the preference for the juvenile-stressed conspecific, as well as the preference for the adult naïve conspecific. The blockade of MCH receptor 1or orexin receptors in the insular cortex with SNAP94847 (50 μM) or TCS1102 (1 μM), respectively, also abolished the preference for the stressed juvenile conspecific, but only the antagonism of orexin receptors was able to abolish the preference for the adult naïve conspecific. Microinjection of increasing doses (50 or 500 nM) of MCH or orexin-A in the insular cortex increased the interaction time in the one-on-one social interaction test with juvenile conspecifics; however, only the microinjection of orexin-A increased the interaction time with adult naïve conspecifics. Taken together, these results suggest that lateral hypothalamus peptides shape the direction of social approach or avoidance via actions MCH and orexin neurotransmission in the insular cortex.

Food waste management for the UK grocery retail sector—a supply chain collaboration perspective

Food waste is a consequence of the contemporary retail environment, where maintaining high product availability and customer choice is considered the basis of competition. It has become an especially focal issue in recent years for grocery retailers. Despite the evidence of retailers adopting many good practices to mitigate food waste, there are still many challenges facing the sector. This paper thus conducted a qualitative study drawing on secondary data on the big four UK supermarkets and twelve in-depth interviews with high-level supply chain (SC) managers in one of those four supermarkets to investigate UK retailers’ waste management practices and develop SC collaboration strategies for preventative waste management. The findings show that SC collaboration on the waste management needs to focus on forecasting, product range management, case size changes, performance measurement, information systems, and multi-stakeholder collaboration. This study recommends that retailers enhance their institutional collaboration with SC partners and social collaboration with other stakeholders.

"“The International” is outdated for our people". Creation of the national anthem of the USSR (1943-1944)

The article examines the process of work of the state commission headed by K.E. Voroshilov and A.S. Shcherbakov on the creation of the text and musical accompaniment of the new National Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics instead of the "International". "The source base of the article was made up of previously unknown materials of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Archive of Russian Foreign Policy, as well as published documents and memoirs. Since the poems and music for the new anthem were selected on a competitive basis, dozens of Soviet poets and composers were able to participate in this competition. Stalin closely followed the work of the Voroshilov-Shcherbakov commission. He periodically gave instructions to the authors of the words of the anthem (S.M. Mikhalkov and G.A. Urekioyan), attended the auditions of its musical accompaniment. It is concluded that the work on the creation of a new anthem of the USSR in 1943-1944 was the implementation of an important state project that had no analogues in Soviet history. Keywords: "International", the National Anthem of the USSR, I.V. Stalin, K.E. Voroshilov, A.S. Shcherbakov, the Union of Soviet Writers of the USSR, the Committee for the Arts of the USSR, the Union of Soviet Composers of the USSR.

The constitutional guarantee of access to higher education and the principle of equality: a legal analysis based on the example of the protection of the rights of socially vulnerable population groups

The Constitution of Ukraine guarantees the availability and free of charge of higher education, however, it further specifies that citizens have the right to obtain higher education free of charge on a competitive basis. Taking into account the fact that obtaining higher education on a fee-based basis is expensive, the state, by legislative acts, undertakes to ensure equal access to higher education for socially vulnerable sections of the population. There is no further clarification in the legislation about what is meant by equal access to higher education for socially vulnerable segments of the population, as well as the very concept of "socially vulnerable segments of the population. Scientists have given a definition of the concept of socially vulnerable strata of the population, as well as defined the circle of persons who are classified as socially vulnerable strata of the population. In view of the fact that the socially vulnerable population includes a wide range of persons with a special administrative-legal status of the subject of administrative guardianship and from the analysis of benefits in the field of higher education, which are not addressed to everyone who can be attributed to them, we consider it reasonable to exist such a concept as: "subjects of administrative guardianship in the field of higher education", which will include persons from socially vulnerable strata of the population, who are granted the right to free higher education and special conditions for participation in competitive selection upon admission to a higher education institution. The article provides examples that, in our opinion, can be interpreted as ensuring equal access to higher education for socially vulnerable segments of the population. Changes in the legal provision of equal access to higher education for socially vulnerable sections of the population are also analyzed, and the opinions of scientists on this topic are given. In this work, we try to answer whether equal access to higher education for socially vulnerable population segments does not violate the constitutional principle of equality of all citizens to obtain higher education for free on a competitive basis.Higher education is certainly not the final stage in a person's education, because now everyone is talking about "lifelong education", but higher education is an important component in the formation of an individual, as a professional and as a person. Ensuring equal access to higher education for socially vulnerable sections of the population is a manifestation of the social state that Ukraine is.

Organization of the System of Internal Marketing and Marketing of Interaction of Agricultural Enterprises for the Production of Biodiesel Based on Value Chain Analysis

The aim of the study was to analyze and evaluate the organization of the system of internal marketing and marketing interaction of agricultural enterprises for the production of biodiesel based on value chain analysis.
 The authors conducted aresearch on the formation of a marketing model and the corresponding marketing policy of the enterprise, where it is methodologically important is the formation of effective value chains as a basis for competition in the market. The theoretical approach to the formation of the value chain within the marketing model of an individual agricultural enterprise is substantiated. At the same time, value chains are seen as production networks in which businesses use competitive resources and operate in an institutional environment, and form network of horizontally and vertically connected enterprises united by a partnership model of interaction. The objectives of the study were solved using such methods as: historical, systematic, inductive and deductive, analysis and synthesis, modeling and comparative analysis.
 To ensure the efficiency of energy production from biomass, the optimality of the logistics factor should be ensured. Applied models based on tools such as operations research and mathematical optimization using computer algorithms have been developed to plan and manage biomass supply chains.
 It is proposed to model supply chains and / or create value by types of resource flows with the possibility of their modular connection to the overall model, which, in our opinion, can increase the reliability of the results.
 To study the value chain of biodiesel in Ukraine, an appropriate model was developed to simulate the flow of raw sunflower and rapeseed, as the use of both crops was identified as the most common for biodiesel production in Ukraine. The model differs from the existing ones in that it takes into account different scenarios to determine the total cost of biodiesel production, as well as the cost of individual activities in the value chain formation.

УПРАВЛЕНИЕ ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕМ ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫХ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫХ ПРОГРАММ: ОПЫТ РЕГИОНА

The presented article describes the results of a large-scale project implemented by representatives of the RANEPA Law School aimed at replenishing the range of additional professional programs with expert, high-quality, specialized educational content. In order to develop such programs on a competitive basis, the jury selected 22 applicants who for several months, under the guidance of tracker teachers, designed additional professional programs, the content of which was their unique expert experience. From a research point of view, the process of managing the design of educational content in the conditions of interaction between trackers, teachers of the Presidential Academy and the participants of the educational project themselves, who are experts in their professional activities, is interesting. As a qualitative and quantitative result, we note the development of four unique additional professional training programs, which are implemented within the framework of the national project «Demography».

Strategic Marketing and Stable Growth of the Company

All developed (stable and dynamically developing for a long time) companies are somewhat similar. As a rule, they hold strong positions in one or more market segments, their market share is constantly growing, and they are respected by customers and partners. These companies are usually ready for market changes earlier than others and adapt to new conditions more quickly and painlessly than their competitors. The modern reality of the market system dictates to its subjects the inevitability of constant rivalry and striving for progress, the need to stay ahead of potential competitors and strengthen their positions in the short and long term. Awareness of what is happening in the market, the desire to reorganize the business, and the ability to make strategic decisions faster than others are the basis of any enterprise's competitiveness. All this goes beyond even the broadest sense of marketing. However, the marketing approach is also used to solve management problems in the company. In most cases, the quality of the resulting decisions is significantly improved. Company positioning in the eyes of customers, partners, and other market participants is an inertial process. It often happens that even if the company has made important strategic decisions and is actively engaged in changing its business, the market continues to perceive it in the old way. In order to bring the essence of the ongoing transformations to the target audience, special efforts are needed. A firm's response to market changes is often slow. At the same time, there is a danger of lagging behind competitors, i.e. There is a risk of long-term instability. Keywords: Strategic marketing, stable growth, the basis of competitiveness.

Genesis of competitive development of industrial enterprises

The article retrospectively analyzes the concept of "competition" and examines its modern interpretations. It was determined that the basis of understanding competition is the struggle between market subjects for access to resources, consumers, while competition determines the economic behavior of market subjects. It is substantiated that competitive development, as one of the types of development, is a tool for ensuring economic growth and a consequence of ensuring competitiveness. Modern interpretations of competitive development by scientists are analyzed. It was found that such development is based on a process approach to the implementation of changes that provide a synergistic effect in the parallel acquisition of competitive advantages and development of the business entity. The key features of competitive development are determined by its basis on the creation of special unique advantages of the enterprise, the use of production factors capable of providing a competitive basis for development, the use of strategizing processes in ensuring competitiveness, which in the complex not only ensure the maintenance of positions and economic efficiency of operation, but also become tools for the development of the enterprise. The own vision of the interpretation of the competitive development of the enterprise as qualitative and quantitative changes in the economic activity of the enterprise, provided with innovative, organizational, economic advantages, different from those of competitors, which ensure economic growth, increase in efficiency and the transition of the enterprise to a higher level of functioning in an economic environment with hard-to-achieve results, has been formed for competitors.

Comparative analysis of tourism indicators for Croatia and selected competitive countries

An increasing number of countries are investing in the development of tourism, thus becoming a key driver of socioeconomic development. The effects of tourism are realized through foreign exchange revenues, job creation, and the development of local and national infrastructure. As an international trade service, inbound tourism has become one of the world's major trade categories. Tourism in Croatia is considered an important investment driver and a generator of growth in the national economy. Addressing and development on a competitive basis are determined by the unfavorable macroeconomic environment and business climate in the country. Today's business world is characterized by accelerated development and competitiveness of companies that must stimulate profitable development, measure value creation and continuously learn from success, because only such companies can succeed. The aim of the paper is to show the economic effects of tourism and show the position of Croatian tourism in relation to competitive countries, in order to confirm the hypothesis that Croatia is a strong competitive country.

Conceptualizing disruptive innovation: an interpretive structural model approach

Christensen insightfully proposed disruptive innovation. The theory is growing stronger but is still haunted by vagueness and post hoc definition issues, which signifies the nature of disruptive innovation may remain unveiled. In order to eliminate the controversies and confusion, this study sorts out commonalities and key driving forces for market encroachment of disruptive innovation, and utilizes the interpretative structural model to reorganize the original theoretical framework based on the principle of “Occam’s razor”. The results show that (1) the value network is the theoretical outset of disruptive innovation and manifests as two different value dimensions at the product or technical level, which endows disruptive innovation with “duality”; (2) the duality makes disruptive innovation have asymmetric advantages and disadvantages compared to existing products or technologies in terms of price and performance; The asymmetry changes enterprises’ competition basis and consumers’ evaluation matrices, which essentially explains the key to market encroachment of disruptive innovation; (3) the duality is the essence that distinguishes disruptive innovation from other types of innovation.

Contribution of the V.P. Gorychkin Gold Medal Laureates to the Agroengineering Science Development

In the practice of the Russian Academy of Sciences, it is established in the main scientific areas to periodically award gold medals named after outstanding domestic scientists of agrarian science on a competitive basis. According to the profile of agroengineering science, such a medal is dedicated to the founder of the doctrine of agricultural machines, Academician Vasily Prokhorovich Goryachkin. (Research purpose). To carry out a survey of the agricultural engineering science from the historical perspective, summarize its scientific achievements and recreate a holistic picture of the scientific heritage left by the followers of V.P. Goryachkin, who are known in the agricultural engineering science as laureates of the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after V.P. Goryachkin. (Materials and methods). The article traces the development of scientific ideas of V.P. Goryachkin in the works of renowned domestic scientists in the agricultural engineering sciences. (Results and discussion). The article presents a holistic picture of the scientific achievements from 1971 to 2022 made by the followers of V.P. Goryachkin, those who were awarded the Gold Medal named after him. For more than 50 years, fifteen outstanding scientists have been awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after V.P. Goryachkin, in particular: V.A. Zheligovsky (1971), I.I. Artobolevsky (1974), P.I. Vasilenko (1977), I.A. Budzko (1986), G.E. Listopad (1989), N.I. Klenin (1992), N.V. Krasnoshchekov (1995), V.I. Chernoivanov (1998), I.P. Ksenevich (2001), L.P. Kormanovsky (2004), V.M. Kryazhkov (2008), V.I. Syrovatke (2011), E.V. Zhalnin (2014), A.I. Zavrazhnov (2018), M.N. Erokhin (2022). (Conclusions) Outstanding Russian scientists, laureates of the Academician V.P. Goryachkin gold medal made a huge contribution to the further development of agroengineering science and education, the formation of fundamental scientific schools, the development of theoretical and practical foundations for the creation of innovative technologies, systems and machine complexes.

Vedação à ingerência e necessidade de avaliação consequencialista aos limites do poder fiscalizatório e decisório do Tribunal de Contas da União em relação às sociedades de economia mista exploradoras de atividade econômica

The present work has as its development scope a critical-reflexive analysis about the occurrence of a Federal Court of Accounts activism that, sometimes, improperly and abusively, acts as if it were the administrator himself, performing even the judgment of convenience and opportunity; that is, the controller doing the administrator’s times. In this sense, it is also intended to expose eventual problems arising from this undue interference by the control body in relation to the managers, which affect the country’s development, as well as discouraging foreign investments. This paper will specifically address the situation of mixed-economy companies that exploit economic activity (S.M.E), which, although they belong to the indirect public administration, operate on a competitive basis and have legal status of the other private companies, needing to carry out their activities with agility and compatible with its market, as well as the transaction costs resulting from such interference. It also stresses the importance not only of avoiding such interference but of weighing the consequences of its decisions. In order to do so, the current institutional position of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) in the Brazilian State and its main competences, especially those of a decision-making character, will be approached in order to demonstrate the influence of these in the aforementioned activism.

MODERN ASPECTS OF COST MANAGEMENT OF UKRAINIAN ENTERPRISES

Now, in difficult economic conditions in Ukraine, the issue of effective cost management is becoming relevant for enterprises, taking into account the opportunities to stimulate resource savings, forecasting and controlling costs according to the “Expenses-output-profit” system.
 Now in our country there is a question of ensuring the stable development of enterprises. First of all, this is due to the military aggression against Ukraine. Business has to resist internal and external negative processes taking place both in the state and outside it.
 Entrepreneurs are increasingly in need of support and assistance from economically stable partners. The ability of an enterprise to effectively conduct economic activities is marked by the level of its costs and prime cost, which characterize its ability to provide such a level of financial stability sufficient to avoid the risks of bankruptcy and unprofitability of economic activity.
 The above gives an opportunity for stable and dynamic development of Ukrainian enterprises. It is the choice of optimal aspects and methods of cost management that creates the basis for economic stability and competitiveness of enterprises in the world market. Market conditions are increasingly increasing the requirements for the efficient conduct of business activities and maximization of income. This can be achieved in two ways. The first is by increasing income (increase in product prices). The second is the cost optimization method.
 It should be noted that in the context of automating the activities of enterprises in the world, the cost optimization procedure based on business process modeling is of particular importance. The issue of cost management in this context still needs a detailed study. Reliable cost estimates are essential for making the right decisions and taking the best action. Therefore, this task requires highly qualified employees of the company to master the techniques and methods of applying certain elements of the cost management structure to solve certain situations. Modern Ukrainian enterprises still need such employees.
 In difficult economic conditions for our state, the introduction of more adapted to domestic conditions and the specifics of doing business is important methodologically, due to the need for uninterrupted monitoring of costs and support for the competitiveness of the enterprise.

Valentino Sermattei’s Odesa enterprise of 1859–1865 in art and social discourse

Relevance of the study implies the V. Sermattei’s management stage activity peculiarities investigation in terms of the opera singers’, the audience and the theatre management interactions, the study of management decisions and other factors that have led to its decline.
 The purpose of the article is to substantiate the private Italian company interdependence of the stage activities success and the sources and means of organizing theatrical business in the Odesa city theatre on the example of V. Sermattei’s management.
 The methodology includes art critic (to clarify the performing art development peculiarities in Italy), biographical (to investigate the unknown and little-known facts of opera singers’ biographies) and cultural-historical (to reveal the historical processes and cultural phenomena connection and their influence on Italian opera in Ukraine) methods.
 The results and conclusions. The entrepreneur V. Sermattei, who ran the Odesa city theatre in 1859-1865, gained experience in organizing the foreign engagement of opera companies and organizing their performances without theatre activities additional financing by the municipal authorities. In such conditions, the impresario had to implement various strategies that allowed him to save his capital. Among the most common are: the expenses for the theatre building decoration and renovation “freezing”, the involvement of poorly trained musicians in the theatre orchestra, and the part of the company opera singers with low vocal quality and acting training engagement, which everything together made him impossible to follow the key contract requirements, in particular, the opera repertoire renewal and expansion. Since the biggest part of that time opera companies expenses was on the prima donnas soprano in a dramatic role engagement (for the particularly popular performances of the G. Verdi’s and his contemporaries’ operas), V. Sermattei focused on a less expensive option of involving prima donnas contralto in the company. This approach made it possible to stage of the period of romanticism composers’ works successfully, restore the Rossini’s repertoire, which for a certain time improved the financial affairs in the theatre and slowed down the decline of the company. However, the crisis in the theatre, which deepened during the last two years of the contract validity, was not stopped even by the invitation of the former European celebrity prima donna T. De Giuli-Borsi for the performances.
 The V. Sermattei’s company troubles prompted the city authorities to improve the contract requirements for the next theatre tenants, to introduce a procedure for selecting an impresario on a competitive basis. In the successive theatre activities period public’s pressure on the impresario mechanisms in order to improve the opera companies’ quality and diversify the repertoire, tested during the period of V. Sermattei management, were applied.

Understanding the Role of Corporate Social Responsibility on Internal Customer Satisfaction for Sustainable Business Strategy; A Qualitative Research in the Aviation Industry

In industrial life, where competition is increasingly intense in the globalization process, the efforts of companies to gain an advantage differ. In the 21st century, where competition over economic output and growth and profitability alone does not make a difference, corporate social responsibility projects and strategies to compete by gaining social legitimacy comes to the fore. The inimitable aspect of Human Resources, which is the most valuable resource for a business, has led to the need for deep and different studies on the importance of internal customers. These early-recognizing businesses take measures to retain talented employees, making a difference in competition with internal resources. Social responsibilities, which are the responsibilities of organizations to their employees, their environment, and consumers, form the basis of competition and sustainable strategies today. Based on this basis, the research focusing on the role of corporate social responsibility projects on internal customer satisfaction in the aviation industry wants to reveal organization-based outputs. This qualitative research aims to open a social window to competitive advantage with corporate social responsibility strategies; It is concerned to create an important value to understand the role of the institutions that produce and manage sustainability projects that are sensitive to the environment and society. In this context, qualitative research was conducted with 24 middle and senior managers working at the management level of airline companies operating in Turkey. Within the scope of the research, 7 open-ended questions were asked. All collected data were analyzed using the Maxqda 20 program. Content analysis, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research and the connection relationship of the parts obtained as a result of the analysis was conveyed according to the direction of configuration.