Факторы, влияющие на конкурентоспособность телекоммуникационных компаний на мировом рынке

Вестник Московского университета. Серия 6: Экономика. 2017. № 6. С. 65–80.

Tokareva M. S., Чихун Л. П.

The development of information and communication technologies has contributed to the fact that the telecommunication industry has become one of the strategic sectors of the economy on which the functioning of other branches of the economy depends. Therefore, the objective of the study was to determine the factors that influence the competitiveness of telecommunications companies and shape the image of the future telecommunication sector as a whole. The article analyzes two theoretical approaches to the definition of competitiveness: static and dynamic. Due to the importance of the dynamic approach for determining the competitiveness for the telecommunication market, the main internal and external factors affecting telecommunication companies nowadays and having a significant effect in future were identified. External factors were determined using STEEPV-analysis. For internal factors, the following classification was proposed: technological, organizational and marketing innovations. Among the external factors, the digitalization of the economy and society becomes the most important for telecommunication companies, technological innovations are among the internal factors. The factors revealed during the research can be used for foresight of the telecommunications sector of Russia, the definition of scenario conditions for forecasting the development of information and communication technologies, the formation of a strategic policy of telecommunication companies.

Keywords: форсайт, телекоммуникации, foresight, инновационные технологии, диверсификация, diversification, факторы конкурентоспособности, innovative technologies, telecommunications, STEEPV-анализ, factors of competitiveness, STEEPV-analysis