The monograph is devoted to the identification and research of the control system of the Russian retail chains through outsourcing. The authors have developed and systematized theoretical and optional and methodological positions in relation to the outsourcing in Russian retail trade chain, taking into account risks. The authors offer model to optimize the management process of the outsourcing of specific business functions on the basis of new indicators: timeliness of transition to outsourcing; economy transition to outsourcing; the average time exceeded the planned duration of the transition to outsourcing; the average value of the planned costs excess.

The book can be interest to managers of various levels, experts in management consulting, researchers, teachers and students, studying management in modern organizations.

The research considers general philosophical and applied approaches to the analysis of social interaction, defines the mechanisms of social interaction, as well as the methods of managing them. The influence of mechanisms of social interaction on the organization of joint activity is analyzed.

This monograph may be of interest to specialists engaged in research of social interaction, to manager-practitioners who apply the mechanisms of social interaction in professional activity, as well as to all those who are interested in the sociology of management and organization, human resources management.