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Электронный бизнес. Управление интернет-проектами. Инновации [Текст] : сб. тр. участников VIII Студенч. науч.-практ. конф., Москва, 15–17 марта 2016 г.
The report is dedicated to the question of creation of Internet agroservice. It examines existing problems of this field. The scenarios of development system are provided as a material of the research.
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The article focuses on the major trends and issues of internet retailing in Russia. Despite the negative trends in the Russian economy, national B2C e-commerce market shows fairly high growth rates. In 2014-2016 online sales increased by 60% while gross retail turnover gained only 7.4%. However, e-commerce share of total retail sales in Russia remains quite low (4%) compared to many European countries (e.g. 8% in France, 9.4% in Germany, 11% in Finland, 15.6% in Great Britain). Issues of e-commerce logistics support constitute one of the main reasons for such development lag.
Students' internet usage attracts the attention of many researchers in different countries. Differences in internet penetration in diverse countries lead us to ask about the interaction of medium and culture in this process. In this paper we present an analysis based on a sample of 825 students from 18 Russian universities and discuss findings on particularities of students' ICT usage. On the background of the findings of the study, based on data collected in 2008-2009 year during a project "A сross-cultural study of the new learning culture formation in Germany and Russia", we discuss the problem of plagiarism in Russia, the availability of ICT features in Russian universities and an evaluation of the attractiveness of different categories of ICT usage and gender specifics in the use of ICT.
The paper examines the structure, governance, and balance sheets of state-controlled banks in Russia, which accounted for over 55 percent of the total assets in the country's banking system in early 2012. The author offers a credible estimate of the size of the country's state banking sector by including banks that are indirectly owned by public organizations. Contrary to some predictions based on the theoretical literature on economic transition, he explains the relatively high profitability and efficiency of Russian state-controlled banks by pointing to their competitive position in such functions as acquisition and disposal of assets on behalf of the government. Also suggested in the paper is a different way of looking at market concentration in Russia (by consolidating the market shares of core state-controlled banks), which produces a picture of a more concentrated market than officially reported. Lastly, one of the author's interesting conclusions is that China provides a better benchmark than the formerly centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe by which to assess the viability of state ownership of banks in Russia and to evaluate the country's banking sector.