Табачникова М.Б.

The relevance of the topic. Approaches to assessing the performance of the Board of directors require modernization, taking into account the specifics of the organizational and legal provisions of public joint stock companies, as well as changes in institutional and socio-economic conditions in Russia. The need to expand the range of methods and tools for evaluating the performance of the Board of directors is due to the growing demands of stakeholders for the quality of its work and the sustainable growth of companies as a whole. Goal. Development and approbation of a methodology for evaluating the performance of the Board of directors of Russian companies based on public information. Methodology. The research uses general scientific methods and techniques: analysis, synthesis, analogy, generalization, comparison, abstraction, as well as statistical methods and methods of economic analysis. The methodological framework is based on modern versions of methodological recommendations on the evaluation of the Board of directors, as well as methodologies for assigning corporate governance ratings. The information base of the empirical part of the study contains the reports of Russian public joint stock companies included in the National Corporate Governance Rating. Results and conclusions. The research identified trends in the formation and functioning of the Board of directors caused by changes in regulatory and advisory documents regulating the corporate governance process, as well as by requirements of stakeholders, in particular, the transition to a balanced board of directors and the expansion of functions in the field of ESG activity control. The study also developed a methodology for evaluating the performance of the Board of directors of Russian public companies, which differs in evaluation criteria, the composition of relevant indicators, the scoring system, the scale of interpretation of the results obtained and meets the requirements of modern theory and practice of corporate governance. Based on the results of the evaluation of the performance of the Board of directors of Russian public companies included in the National Corporate Governance Rating, the study formulated recommendations for their improvement using the proposed methodology. Scope of application. Improving the composition, structure, and performance of the boards of directors of Russian public companies in order to improve the quality of corporate governance.

Purpose. Identification of interrelations of strategic positioning of industrial development of regions of Central Black Earth Macroregion (CBEM) and the work forces providing it. Discussion. Industrial development of Russia and regions of the country is considered as a strategic vector which maintenance is made: positive dynamics of industrial outputs, technical and technological improvement, export expansion, active import substitution, forming of perspective organization structures (clusters, technoparks, industrial parks, special economic zones, territories of the advancing development, etc.). Results. The analysis of strategy of social and economic development of CBEM showed that industrial development is positioned as competitive advantage by all regions of CBEM, and, irrespective of its actual level. In the specified documents the high level of attention to improvement of different aspects of industrial development is shown. The direct connection of a status and dynamics of industrial production with a solution of social problems, improvement of space development of regions is proved. In strategy will reach in general quite high level of compliance of the purposes, tasks, instruments of industrial development. At the same time it should be noted that a variety of solvable tasks is not fully provided with programs, projects for development of work forces. A set of indicators, typical for strategy, and their quantitative characteristics do not allow to see accurately perspectives of industrial development and resources, necessary for it. Most it belongs to work forces.

Article purpose: theoretical justification of influence of the institutional environment on social and economic development of regions of the Russian Federation.Discussion: the problem of the institutional environment of social and economic systems as factor of their development is very debatable, as well as a problem of identification of institutes. In this regard there are at least three debatable problems: what represents institute in the system of the public relations in the region; what contents and structure of the institutional environment; what the role of the institutional environment as a factor of social and economic development of the region consists in. These problems were a discussion subject in the submitted article. Results : the institutional environment of the region - the system including element base and forms of communications. Element base of the institutional environment of the region: households; bodies of authority and management of regional level; local governments; large business; small business; non-profit organizations; budgetary organizations. Forms of communications of the institutional environment are presented by the formalized and unformalized rules of conduct. The institutional element base from the substantial party is diverse, values and the purposes of her subsystems are essentially irreducible to the uniform value and the purpose. For positive impact of the institutional environment on social and economic development of the region it is necessary to be guided not by unification of values and the purposes, and by their compatibility, complementarity within the uniform strategy of social and economic development of the region and instruments of her realization.

Article purpose - the analysis of economic level of various institutional groups for formation of the concept of management of changes of social and economic systems. D is c u s s i o n : development of social and economic systems of various countries, their territorial subsystems considerably depends on perception of events which in general are considered as favorable or adverse. The points of view of various institutional groups on force of influence and probability of approach of events are various. It is essential to management of economic processes as plans, programs of development are implemented on the basis of expectations of various groups. For an assessment of level of pessimism the hypothesis according to which the same event is estimated various image both certain people, and their groups is made. Therefore, each event and each group can be estimated on the level of economic pessimism. In the first case economic optimism can be characterized as «event», in the second - as «institutional». R e s u lt s : in article the points of view of representatives of various institutional groups in the concrete region of the Russian Federation (Voronezh region) are analysed. On the basis of expert estimates threats to development of the region (adverse events) are formulated. Representatives of large business, small business, regional authorities, local governments, public organizations, employees of the organizations of the budgetary sphere acted as experts. Results of a research have two various aspects. First, pessimism indexes for each adverse event and each institutional group are calculated. Secondly, methodical approach to an assessment of event and institutional pessimism which is applicable to any social and economic systems is approved