Vol. 27 No. 2 (2025)

The article summarizes the findings of the authors’ sociological investigation into how Russian citizens and private economic entities view the actions of regulatory and supervisory authorities. Various factors influence the trust level in regulatory and supervisory bodies. For citizens, this primarily means making sure that the control and supervisory authorities safeguard the values that are protected by law and that requests for their assistance in defending those values (such as life, health, property, the environment, etc.) are successful. For private economic entities, it refers to the existence or absence of material and administrative expenses related to the operations of control and supervisory bodies, the excessiveness of mandatory requirements, and the customer focus of regulatory and supervisory bodies. The article was prepared as part of a state assignment by the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).

The article presents the study findings on assessing the Russian Federation’s strategic initiatives and the selection of economic development priorities. The challenges facing the country’s economy are not so much a challenge to the apparatus of state administration, but rather opportunities for the realization of new approaches and management techniques. The authors stress the value of generalizing the state apparatus’s professional experience to support national initiatives. The findings of sociological research are used to conclude the necessity and applicability of the chosen priority paths of social and economic development for the benefit of the government, domestic industry, and society. The study provides public evaluations of the Russian government’s strategic investments in industry, the economy, and digitization.

The study aims to suggest recommendations for simplifying the system of strategic planning documents adopted in the regions of the Ural Federal District. The study’s findings came from an evaluation of the external parameters’ consistency, including names and implementation deadlines. After the situation has stabilized, it will be necessary to examine and enhance the coherence of strategic documents with respect to their constituent elements, including structures, content, resources, outcomes, etc. The study examined the consistency of programs and strategies implemented at the regional and municipal levels. The methodology used in the analysis was based on a numerical assessment of deviations in the number of programs from the optimal intervals calculated using current legislation and different implementation deadlines. The research identified a series of measures that, if applied not only to the study object but also to other comparable objects (federal districts), will stabilize strategic management systems and result in simplification of the internal content of strategic planning documents, which will increase the efficiency of their implementation.

The article assesses the contributions of public administration organizations to developing the tourism industry in the Republic of Altai. The Altai Republic’s tourism potential depends on endogenous (natural) factors, with limited exogenous (anthropogenic) factors, such as different tourist infrastructure facilities. The Republic of Altai is one of the least developed regions in terms of socioeconomic, cultural, and educational indicators. This has a detrimental impact on the region’s financial and economic potential as well as the prospects for labor, investment, material and production, and service support for the growth of the tourism industry and the republic’s tourism infrastructure. Both federal and regional state initiatives for developing the Republic of Altai’s tourism sector form a system of strategic development of the tourism industry. According to this system, the dynamics of the tourism sector’s functioning indicators are positive but deficient compared to the region’s present tourism potential, which fosters the desire to accelerate the development of tourism infrastructure. The study employs state statistics data, scientific advancements, and normative methodologies to evaluate the role played by public policy actors in regional development. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the author’s approach to assessing the effectiveness of local authorities’ management over the development of the tourism industry.

The article examines certain legal aspects of entertainment and theater performances as distinct categories of complex intellectual rights. The author analyzes the legal status of the creators of a spectacular performance. The components of such a complex object of copyright can be a libretto, script or play, music, directorial and choreographic production, as well as the performance of artists and conductor as objects of rights related to copyright. Some of the elements of a spectacular performance can be independent protected objects if they are used by their author outside the complex object under study (for example, a composition that became part of the performance after its writing and separate performance). The owner of the exclusive right, as for any complex object, is the organizer of the performance creation. According to the author, the article defines an unambiguous, objective form of expression for a stage performance, establishing a distinction between a stage and choreographic work. The work examines the innovations in legislation on the legal status of the director of a 2017 theatrical production and determines their significance.

The authors’ research on the growth of the Altai Region’s creative industries has allowed them to formulate and suggest a method for determining the region’s creative industries’ development priorities. This method is based on projects that incorporate multiple related creative activities rather than on the growth of individual sectors or unique competitive advantages. The approach adheres to human-centered principles and includes two components that ensure the sustainability of the results obtained: static and dynamic. The research enabled the development of stages for establishing and developing priority creative industries. The suggested method for choosing the Altai Region’s creative industry priorities is based on the region’s distinct competitive advantages in the creative industries, aligns with the goals of the Russian Federation’s national projects, strategies for growing service exports, and the state’s cultural policy, and considers the standard for implementing creative industries. The proposed strategy aims to build professional skills and a critical mass of specialists who can produce competitive creative products without contradicting or undermining regional governments’ efforts to support creative industries and encourage citizens to engage in the production of creative products.

The article examines the legal aspects of strategic planning for the socioeconomic development. It is noted that strategic planning is one of the functional characteristics of public administration. The author examines the concept of “strategy” at the legislative level and concludes that it is not used separately but rather only in conjunction with other concepts that clarify its purpose. The study notes the existing heterogeneity of “strategic planning” definitions. According to the author, the current legislative definition of “strategic planning” and “public administration” may cause misunderstandings because it weakens the strategic element and lacks a strategic component of its own. The research examines the issues related to correlation of these concepts. It is emphasized that a legal model providing strategic direction must clearly reveal the essential characteristics of the regulated phenomenon; only then can state governance in this area be ensured. In order to overcome existing shortcomings, the author proposes his own definition of the concept of “strategic planning”.

This article focuses on the challenges of digitalization of business processes in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and government support for the digital economy. An indicative approach was used to assess the level of digitalization of small and medium-sized businesses: the author evaluated the Business Digitalization Index, calculated by Otkritie Bank in collaboration with the NAFI analytical center. Individual indicators of the use of digital technologies by SMEs were also analyzed (including the results of industry surveys and monitoring). The author found that the level of digitalization of most enterprises remains average, and only a small proportion of SMEs have fully realized their digital potential. The main problems slowing down the digital transformation of SMEs are related to a lack of financial resources and qualified personnel. These barriers directly affect the course of digital transformation, reducing its speed and efficiency: enterprises cannot fully take advantage of the benefits of “digitalization” and postpone the modernization of business models, which negatively affects their competitiveness. To overcome this gap, a set of measures has been proposed, including the development of human capital (training, attracting and retaining IT talent), strengthening financial support for digital projects (subsidies, incentives, IT grants), and improving the institutions and infrastructure of the digital economy (creating platforms and services that simplify SME access to technologies and markets).

The article analyzes the role of human resources departments in the public sector based on a study of economic instruments for ensuring motivation among employees of public organizations. A review of scientific research by foreign scholars has shown that public administration is mainly affected by the Russian Federation’s reorientation toward regional partnerships. It was found that many domestic authors do not take into account the economic context of the development of the public system in the current conditions. The results of research by Russian theoretical scientists presented in the article largely reflect the scientific community’s views on ways to optimize the motivational component in the public sector. Some of them focus on current economic and technological trends in the development of the state system. Others focus on the bonus part of the motivational component of civil servants. The directions for the implementation of personnel policy in the context of overcoming external challenges indicate that personnel services will begin to focus on the professional development of highly specialized civil servants in the foreseeable future. Over time, changes in the compensation system will become the main motivational tool, as the state system will be interested in the unique competencies of civil servants, for whom the necessary material resources are already in place.

The article addresses changes to the municipal personnel work system within the framework of the Russian Federation’s continuous reform of the local self-government structure. The study’s goals are to pinpoint the primary issues with local government staffing and to identify strategies for enhancing municipal personnel reserves. The author employs several techniques in the work, including the general scientific dialectical method of cognition, formal-legal, system-structural, comparative-legal, synthesis, and analysis. The study provides a thorough description for the current status of the personnel in local self-government bodies in modern Russia as well as the mechanisms for ensuring the consistency of the public power structure. The analysis of doctrinal sources and norms of federal and regional legislation made it possible to identify existing problems and propose necessary means and mechanisms for their solution in the field of municipal personnel management. These are the most important ones: the creation of programmatic and strategic documents on public authority staffing; the implementation of professional development programs used in the public service system at the municipal level; the shift to a unified system of personnel training and retraining for the public administration system; the enhancement of systems for employee motivation, both material and non-material.

The article substantiates the concept of a ‘‘managerial holistic ecosystem’’ by drawing on theoretical provisions of social construction within the framework of the BANI world. The ecosystem’s features, including governance and manageability, are studied separately. The parameters of the managerial holistic ecosystem are described, and the components and characteristics of the designated ecosystem are derived. The components of the managerial holistic ecosystem are examined using the example of the childhood ecosystem, which is supervised by the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Chelyabinsk Region. Features of the managerial holistic ecosystem include multi-levelness, flexibility and adaptation, long-term functioning, self-reproduction, integrity, and interconnectedness. Digital components of the ecosystems mentioned above and the assurance of their existence are two ways to trace the impact of digitalization on the social construction of managerial holistic ecosystems.

The article focuses on a thorough examination of the epistemological potential of an interdisciplinary approach in social and humanities research, taking into account the transformation of modern society and scientific knowledge. The study investigates the evolution of interdisciplinarity, from the first integrative attempts in classical sociologists’ works to contemporary research strategies in the context of a complex, nonlinear, and highly differentiated social reality. The authors provide a detailed analysis of the four fundamental conceptual «turns» in science that served as the foundation for interdisciplinary research methodology. The paper identifies key methodological innovations for each scientific «turn». The study organizes the epistemological benefits of interdisciplinarity as well as its drawbacks. The author categorizes interdisciplinary approaches into two groups: subjectively oriented and objectively oriented. The article focuses especially on the unique features of modern social processes that call for the use of interdisciplinary approaches. As a unique research object, the author believes that the Internet is a perfect place to test interdisciplinary approaches.

The article examines the higher education system from two perspectives: as a component of the knowledge economy and as a system that benefits the public. The study focuses primarily on the second approach. This method places a higher priority on how the educational system is interpreted in relation to space and conditions. Concurrently, the establishment of a national educational space is identified as a vector of the federal strategy for education development. To accomplish this, the author lists the state's (the regulator's) system-wide instruments as well as the resources that universities have at their disposal for planning collaborative events and partnerships. Such instruments include consortium collaboration, network partnerships, academic mobility programs, educational program design, and cross-regional educational projects. Cooperation with these instruments, according to the thesis, helps to create a unified educational space. Each instrument is evaluated separately based on its frequency of use and regulatory certainty. According to the findings of the instruments' analysis, the author provides us with metrics that show how well universities use them, along with conclusions regarding the outcomes of these collaborations and the prerequisites for joint work in science and education.