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The family as an informal institution has a diverse influence on the child, including his academic performance. In childhood, this influence is pronounced. As the child grows older, the influence of the family transforms and may change the nature of its influence. Generally, in existing studies, the authors focus on the academic performance of one particular group — either schoolchildren or students. The paper presents a comparative analysis of the results of studies of the family influence on the schoolchildren and university students’ academic performance. The comparison is made according to two factors — the socio-economic status of the family and the social capital of the family. This paper examines the question of whether family factors that have proven their influence on the performance of schoolchildren retain their influence on the performance of students during university education. A literature review of Russian and foreign studies has shown that in general the socioeconomic status of the family and the social family capital have a positive effect on the academic performance of both schoolchildren and students. However, some issues of these factors did not confirm their importance (for example, the presence of brothers and sisters). In addition, it was found that the influence of the family changes over time and is determined by the nature of the relationship between parents and students. The results of this review may be of interest to researchers in the field of education, pedagogy and psychology of learning, employees of educational institutions, as well as parents of schoolchildren and students.

The family is informal institution that has a strong influence on the child and on his or her academic performance in particular. Family influence is more essential in childhood, because at a young age children depend a lot on their parents. The nature of relationships between children and parents as well as the role of family in general can change as children grow up. This is a literature review of foreign empirical studies leading to further development of a research program of the influence of family factors on the performance of schoolchildren and students in Russia. In most of the cases, the authors focus on the performance of one group - either schoolchildren or students. This paper considers the research question of whether family factors, which have proven their impact on schoolchildren academic performance, retain their impact on the performance of university students. The novelty of the review lies in its consideration of three ways in which the family impacts on student’s performance: the socio-economic status of the family, the social capital of the family, and the parental involvement in the educational process. The first two ways have been extensively studied in the research, while parental involvement is often considered as a significant factor in school performance. However, it is underestimated as factor in a university student’s performance. The review confirmed that family factors have a significant positive impact on academic performance for both schoolchildren and students. This influence depends on the nature of the relationship between parents and children and can change over time. The results are of practical interest for the researchers in the field of education and psychology, educational institutions as well as for parents. The empirical analysis of parental involvement influence on the academic performance of university students may be one of the possible research themes.

The present investigation provides one of the first complex attempts of theorizing on changes in tourism sector activity within COVID-19 quarantine. Drawing from system and criterion approach we usedthe analysis of official documents and news publication to identify 8 international models of tourism sector support within the pandemic quarantine. Each model was considered with the instrument of strengths and weaknesses analysis. By reviewing Russian national model we conducted deeper analyses juxtaposing and describing experience of Russian regions. Drawing from aтopinion poll realized in Perm krai we described some special features of each tourism sector segment activity within COVID-19 pandemic quarantine. The opinion polls mentioned also showed some limitations of Russian tourism sector support model. With regard to the data mentioned, we proposed the concept of the national electronic exchange service of tourism and resort. This system will potentially support the Russian model in the condition of epidemic crisis, helping the national tourism sector to save and then to restore its activity following laissez-faire principle.

This paper studies the influence of parental involvement in the educational process on the educational achievements of Russian students and their educational strategies, such as studying in high school and successful admission to university. We argue that the patterns of parental involvement represent a link between the formal (school) and informal (family) educational institutions and can have a beneficial effect on academic performance and contribute to the choice of the educational pathway to higher education. Based on data from the longitudinal study ‘Trajectories in Education and Careers’, it was shown that the results of school state examinations are positively associated with the active participation of parents in school meetings, the employment of tutors (except for the Unified State Exam score in mathematics), and the provision of additional literature for the child. A negative relationship was found between homework control and student success. In general, the factor of ‘rational’ (not excessive) involvement is positively associated with educational achievement and educational choice, which may indicate the non-linear nature of the relationship. Parental involvement itself depends on the family characteristics, such as mother’s education, family income and the number of books at home. In addition, family has a positive impact on educational success and educational strategies, and high school characteristics are especially important for the results of the Unified State Exam and the university choice.

Education is one of the key goals of sustainable development (SD), which establishes the basis for the improvement of the people’s living conditions. In this logic a special role is played by universities that create an institutional framework for educating citizens on sustainable development, offering a new understanding of social problems. On the one hand, universities can create and promote knowledge about SD by their educational, expert and research activities, hence developing relevant values among people. On the other hand, universities can become an active agent in implementing the concept of SD by introducing it into its own academic activities.

The  article considers stakeholder approach as one of the approaches to the implementation of the concept of education for sustainable development (ESD). Therefore based on this approach, the article explores the benefits of the key stakeholders of the sustainable university. Low awareness among key stakeholders is one of the significant factors that hindering the implementation of the SD concept. Due to the lack of a sufficient research focused on studying the interests of the main stakeholders in the framework of ESD, this article is an attempt to narrow this gap. Keywords: higher education, sustainable development, education for sustainable development.

Project selection is a complex multi-criteria decision-making process that is influenced by multiple and often conflicting goals. In world practice, the problem of project selection is mainly associated with a large number of projects which company should include in projects portfolio. In practice of Russian machine-building enterprises, the problem is further complicated by such factors as: the lack of linkage of the project portfolio with the company's strategy; filling all sections of the company's strategy with projects and programs; irregular update (revision) of projects included in portfolio; non-regular updating of program documents, as well as the lack of a set of project performance indicators for different types of selected projects.

This study is devoted to review of portfolio management modern theory of, an analysis of the situation in Russian machine-building industry, using the case of a particular enterprise and developing recommendations concerning the selecting criteria for development projects.

The paper aims to study sustainable regional development by assessing the realisation of the values and interests of key stakeholders. The methodological framework includes the concept of sustainable development and a value‐driven approach to management. The authors employ the method of theoretical analysis to validate the possibility of applying the value‐driven approach to assess the sustainable regional development and building a conceptual model reflecting the composition of the key regional stakeholders and the content of their values and interests in the context of the concept of sustainable development. To provide both the overall and individual (in terms of social, environmental and economic components) assessments of the level of realisation of these values, the researchers adopt the method of integral assessments and develop a system of indicators and a step‐by‐step method for calculating the integral index. The authors test the proposed methodological tools using the case of the regions of the Volga and Ural Federal Districts. The findings demonstrate that the most acute problems for all stakeholders are the problems of ensuring environmentally friendly living conditions for the population, reducing the environmental pressure and environmental intensity of economic activity. In the social sphere, the most relevant issues remain improving the standard of living, and raising the volume and quality of social services provided to the population. The authors arrive at the conclusion that insufficient level of realisation of the regional authorities’ values limits their ability to influence the processes of sustainable regional development by improving the level of other stakeholders’ interests’ realisation.

The present investigation provides one of the first complex attempts to analyze new burgeoning part of theory, that illustrates changes in tourism sector daily within global epidemic crisis. Drawing from system and criterion approach we realized theoretical analyses of the conceptual space mentioned. The analyses mentioned showed preconditions of the considering theoretical space and illustrated the main features of its development within Russian and English academic discourses. Within each of the mentioned discourses we identified some dominating types of academic papers and a number of the most widespread topics. Basing on the analysis mentioned, we described two key investigation strategies “Eastern” and “Western” ones, which differ in general investigation logic that they are based on. The theoretical analysis showed that the question of tourism sector functioning within the pandemic (on the business process level) has not been deeply investigated yet. The key reason for it is the early stage of theorizing on the topic mentioned. At this stage investigations are often not systematic and are not coherent enough. To overcome theselimitation we suggested a model of empirical analysis of tourism sector within pandemic. In the future this model will form theoretical and methodological basis for creating effective tourism sector supporting systems for the cases of global epidemic crisis.

The present investigation considers phenomenon of tourism     cluster as a theoretical  model of region  tourism complex administration. Basing on  authors’ approach to theoretical analysis, deep investigation  of the concept “tourism  cluster” was realized.  Following the results of the analysis  mentioned, we described a number of theoretical  approaches to  the category of tourism cluster.  All  the approaches mentioned  were  presented in two  different ways: static and dynamic ones.  The dynamic  model   provided  a  general view on historical  development   of the  category  “tourism cluster” in the scope of  economic theory.

Basing on complex analysis results,  we created our own  “system and  agglomeration” approach to  the  concept of “tourism cluster”. The  approach mentioned  was structured as follows: authors’  interpretation of  the category “tourism cluster”,   feature-based table, tourism cluster   graphical model, authors’ methodology of tourism cluster identification and  complex analysis of this  type system.

New methodology  was tested on the case of Perm krai.

The  set of theoretical  and practical  innovations suggested in the present research is  considered as universal  one and it could be used  in the practice of other regions  administration. The present  monograph could be recommended  to  the specialists  working in the sphere of  public administration ( specially  to those  of them who  is responsible for  tourism policy); to  students of  university programs  related with  tourism , economics, public administration and  to all of those who  are interested in the sphere of special development and tourism  development in the Russian Federation.

This article addresses the development of an integrated approach to assessing the effectiveness of state projects for all types of accessibility (physical, transport, time, information) of environment for the disabled in all directions from the point of view of citizens (rendering state and municipal services and vital activity, categories of disability).

The work presents theoretical foundations of the concepts "efficiency of state projects", "accessible environment"; the analysis of theoretical approaches to the evaluation of state projects’ effectiveness; the practice of implementing state projects on an accessible environment in the Perm region; the efficiency indicators of the realized state projects of an accessible environment for low-mobility groups in the Perm region; problems of assessing the success of state projects; the integrated approach to assessing the effectiveness of state projects; the comparative analysis of the evaluation of state projects implementation by public authorities on the one hand, and organizations of the disabled, on the other.

Drawing on the results of the analysis, we may conclude that there are significant differences in evaluating the implementation of state accessibility projects due to functional and organizational reasons.

The authors have developed the directions of improving the organization of an accessible environment for low-mobility citizens, such as provision of direct interaction between public organizations of the disabled and public authorities, development of a unified construction concept of accessibility formation, improving the mechanisms for conducting inspections, monitoring and regulatory and legal frameworks in the field of accessibility of the environment.

Within the scope of spatial economics and economic geography, the social and cultural milieu of the tourism cluster is often considered to be an important driver of the cluster’s functioning. At the same time, the conceptual mechanism and conditions of the influence exerted by the milieu on the tourism cluster are still unclear. This theoretical gap hinders the development of a coherent policy to support the cluster. The main purpose of the present study is to develop a complex conceptual model of the social and cultural milieu influence on the tourism cluster. This model will further allow us to create a special methodology for investigating particular regional cases. Within the present research, we conducted a theoretical analysis (based on system and criteria methodology) of the social and cultural milieu in the scope of cluster theory. The analysis identified four modern approaches, which were considered to be ineffective in terms of the complex view formation. In view of that, we suggested a new approach of ‘tourism agglomeration’. Based on this approach, we described the conceptual mechanism of the social and cultural milieu influence on the tourism cluster (including behavioral and resource aspects of the mentioned effect). Using the created mechanism, we developed a new methodology of the influence investigation. The methodology was tested based on the case of the Perm region, which showed a number of behavioral problems connected with the associative culture of the existing tourism clusters. The problems mentioned tend to limit cluster development. Accordingly, we suggested some measures which are supposed to improve the situation.

The growing importance of regions as subjects of economic relations and part of a single economic space naturally leads to the need to improve methods and tools for managing regional development. At the same time, at the present stage of economic development, one of the key forms of socio-economic changes is a project activity that defines the principles and characteristics of managerial functions. In the modern world, special attention is paid to achieving sustainable socio-economic development of the region. Due to the fact that modern society solves the problems associated with the continuous assessment of the feasibility of costs for achieving economic results and ensuring stable economic growth, environmental problems and maintaining a balanced development of social and economic spheres remain key problems in the context of regional development. The relevance of this article can be defined as an attempt to systematize existing paradigms and approaches to organizing the management of programs and projects for the regional development within the perspective of the of sustainable development concept, as well as considering related issues considered in scientific works and modern management practice. The main aim of the work is to review the existing theoretical and methodological approaches to the management of programs and projects for sustainable regional development and to identify the features of project management of this type.

This paper studies the influence of parental involvement in the educational process on the educational achievements of Russian students and their educational strategies, such as studying in high school and successful admission to university. We argue that the patterns of parental involvement represent a link between the formal (school) and informal (family) educational institutions and can have a beneficial effect on academic performance and contribute to the choice of the educational pathway to higher education. Based on data from the longitudinal study ‘Trajectories in Education and Careers’, it was shown that the results of school state examinations are positively associated with the active participation of parents in school meetings, the employment of tutors (except for the Unified State Exam score in mathematics), and the provision of additional literature for the child. A negative relationship was found between homework control and student success. In general, the factor of ‘rational’ (not excessive) involvement is positively associated with educational achievement and educational choice, which may indicate the non-linear nature of the relationship. Parental involvement itself depends on the family characteristics, such as mother’s education, family income and the number of books at home. In addition, family has a positive impact on educational success and educational strategies, and high school characteristics are especially important for the results of the Unified State Exam and the university choice.

Recently the global trend to organize the activities of companies in different spheres and sectors of the economy on the project principle has become more relevant and acute. Heads of companies currently pay particular attention to the assessment of the result of the project and find the factors that affect its success. At the first stage of development of this problem, the researchers focused on the study of the indicators of the “iron triangle”, on the achievement the strategic goals of the company or on the meeting the interests of the project customers. Contemporary scholars focus on a wider range of project success factors, their ambiguity and multi-dimensionality. Organizational culture of a project is one of the most important factors as, on the one hand, its impact is well recognised, but on the other hand it is difficult to identify its impact as the culture interacts with other factors. Therefore, it is difficult to determine the boundaries of the impact.However, extending the success factors of a project to include aspects of organizational culture provides managers with an additional tool to achieve project results. The purpose of the article is to test the OCPS( Organizational Culture–Projects Successful) method that has been modified by the author according to the features of the Russian economy. The method allows determining the impact of organizational culture on the project success in different branches of activity. The research is based on a systematic and synergistic approach that considers the project success as a complex system in which the effect of the control action is not directly proportional to the efforts made. This is due to a wide range of possible factors that affect the success of the project, a high degree of uncertainty of the environment, as well as a variety of internal impulses of an organization. The method has been applied and tested in the case study of companies operating in a construction industry as a project is the main type of business for them. In this sector of economy, projects can attract large cash flows. However, unsuccessful projects lead to financial instability of a company. Qualitative and quantitative methods have been used in the study. The main results that have been obtained are 1) the determined aspects of organizational culture that affect the project success in the organisations operating in construction industry of economy: teambuilding, external communication and leadership; 2) the generation of criteria for their assessment and recommendations on the use of the identified aspects of organizational culture in order to increase the probability of success of construction projects. For this purpose a matrix of levels of success of construction projects has been proposed. The application of the matrix allows quickly responding to the problems existing in the project team. The obtained scientific results will allow project managers to get an additional tool to study the aspects that affect the success of an organization’s projects, as well as to identify the elements, influencing on which increases the opp ortunity to achieve project results. Further studies will be devoted to the testing of the suggested method in the case study of projects made by companies operating in other branches of economy. Subsequently, it will verify the method in the context of ap plicability to organizations regardless of their sphere of activity.

The search for and training of employees suitable for the company’s strategic goals and values

is a lengthy and costly process. Therefore, organizations are ready to make eff orts to retain the

most valuable employees, on whom the company’s profit largely depends. The retention of creative specialists increases the capacity of an organization, and creation of working conditions that stimulate creativity and activate thinking, provides generation of new ideas that can become the basis of company’s competitiveness. This pаper presents an analysis of specific features of the staff retention process in creative industries in the context of the theory of generations. The investigation formulated the hypothesis that the retention factors in creative industries are different from those in a non-creative sector. The study is based on the empirical sample derived from the results of 7 interviews with managers of creative industries and a survey of 53 creative workers of generation Y. As a result of a comparative analysis of major international research, and also interviews with managers of creative industries, a number of factors were identified that affect the retention of employees from the creative class of generation Y. The use of the t-criterion for comparing independent samples (creative workers and sales workers) partially confirmed the hypothesis. The study also revealed that managers’ views about the factors of retaining creative employees differ from those of creative workers themselves.

The modern system of higher education involves the active introduction of a practice-oriented approach, which is based not only on the educational process, but also on the formation of the student’s personality. The implementation of a practice-oriented approach implies that students acquire not only practical but also social competencies that they need for their future professional activity. Project activity HSE is presented as a separate type of educational activity of students as part of the educational program with credit units. The project seminar is an educational form of organizational and educational support for project activities. Not directly related to the forms of project implementation, the project seminar aims to form students' project competencies, skills of project interaction and project management. The practice of implementing a project seminar on undergraduate programs began in 2014, on graduate programs from 2018. This study is devoted to the analysis of the practice of project work of undergraduate students in educational programs of economic profile. The study is based on the analysis of the HSE – Perm, the survey involved 117 respondents, of which 8 teachers, 5 customer representatives and 104 students from different courses (the sample corresponds to a confidence accuracy of 95 % and an error of 10 % with a total population of 983 students).

Research question. Since 2014, HSE has been implementing a special practice of project-oriented training in undergraduate programs, which is to implement projects and a project seminar and to involve students in practical programs (applied projects). This practice has methodological support in the form of local regulations, but, in fact, there are ample opportunities for educational programs on the features of implementation. At the same time, a large number of participants were included in the process of implementing this practice and, in order to identify common benefits and difficulties in implementing such an approach, we launched this study. Accordingly, the purpose of the study is to evaluate the practice of introducing project-oriented education on the example of undergraduate economic programs at HSE – Perm, identify problems and identify ways to improve this process.

The present articlelooks into  possibility of    territorial identity  conception implication  for the purpose of  sustainable  tourism  cluster  construction. Within this  article, we  present  results of  theoretical analysis, which illustrate the system of modern approaches  to the concept  mentioned. The  present analysis also  showed internal structure of territorial identity and  allowed to describe interaction between this  concept and sustainability  factors. Basing  on two relevant approaches, we  created author model of territorial identity which focuses on the  ability of present concept to  be integrated  to the  process of tourism cluster projecting. The model mentioned was laid the  foundation for author methodology of territorial  identities identification  and their further  implication for  the  purpose of projecting  sustainable tourism clusters.  This   model was  tested and ensured through  the  example of  Perm krai.  Basing on  the  model implication we suggested   some recommendations  on tourism  development in the region mentioned. 

The article contains the results of an empirical study devoted to the development of a universal management tool in the field of interaction with such social projects stakeholders as investors and project managers. The management tool is presented in the form of a reference model of the communication landscape with methodological recommendations for its use. The empirical basis of the study was 5356 social projects in Russia and the Perm Territory, a series of in-depth interviews with social project organizers, survey data from more than 150 respondents involved in the process of attracting investments in social projects. It is important to emphasize that the practical application of the universal management tool allows us to solve the problems in attracting investors to social projects comprehensively, taking into account the industrial, regional, typological and other features of the participants in the investment process, while forming effective attributes of the investment brand, including: an individual approach to the development of an investment proposal, "Personal stories", reflecting the social values of the project, reputational and other investors’ benefits. Moreover, the model of the communication landscape can form the basis for the creation of a digital platform, aimed at accumulating the existing variety of social projects of a specific territory and solving strategic problems in stakeholder management within the social projects industry.

The Russian Higher education is a turbulent environment. We can find the main challenges facing modern higher education, such as reducing government funding, integrating Russian universities into the international system of higher education, and changing the structure of competition for teachers and students in the global market. These modern trends are complemented by such factors as the transition to the Bologna process and a significant change in the format of studies in undergraduate and graduate programs. In addition, employers are actively involved in the educational process, who are increasingly making demands on the preparation of "ready-to-work" graduates, which also imposes certain duties on universities. As an additional challenge to modern higher education, we would like to note a change in the requirements for teachers who must combine teaching with research, and not just translate other people's achievements to a student. Also, the format of educational services provision is significantly changing due to introduction of modern technologies, the informatization of the educational process, the active involvement in the educational process of online courses or blended format disciplines. All these changes should be taken into account in the activities of the educational institution. This article examines the issues of organizational culture, leadership and behavioral skills of teachers in the position of programme academic supervisor. The study is based on the analysis of the HSE, the study involved 77 programme academic supervisor of undergraduate and graduate educational programs, which is 34.5 % of the total number of programs (at present, 72 educational programs of undergraduate and 151 graduate programs are being implemented at HSE. Research question. Since 2014, the HSE has been implementing a training model for educational programs, headed by a programme academic supervisor. However, this function is written in documents in a generalized form and, most likely, is understood differently by each of the managers. Accordingly, the purpose of the study is to evaluate the practice of introducing the functionality of a programme academic supervisor using the example of HSE, identify problems and determine the role models of programme academic supervisors based on the model of integrated competing values. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the practice of introducing the functionality of a programme academic supervisor using the example of HSE, identify problems and determine role models of programme academic supervisor based on the model of integrated competing values. As a novelty, it is necessary to highlight the adaptation of the concept of competing values ​​in the development of the role model of the programme academic supervisor of the educational program based on a study of its functionality, resource support and degree of involvement in management processes.