About the Journal

Peer Review Process

Review of the articles sent by the authors for publication in Bulletin of South Ural State University, Series “Economics and Management” is performed in accordance with the following rules.

1) The publication reviews all materials received by the editorial office that correspond to its subject matter, with the aim of their expert evaluation. All reviewers are recognized experts on the subject of peer-reviewed articles and have publications within the last 3 years on the problems of the peer-reviewed article. Reviews are stored in the publishing house and in the editorial office of the publication for 5 years.
2) Terms of reviewing are no more than 4 weeks.
3) The editorial board of the publication sends comments or a reasoned refusal to the authors of the materials submitted for publication, and also undertakes to send copies of reviews to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation upon receipt of a corresponding request by the editorial office of the publication.
4) Document flow in the review process:
– Articles prepared in accordance with the requirements for the design of articles intended for publication in the journal “Bulletin of South Ural State University, Series “Economics and Management”.
– The article passes the input control for compliance with the topics of scientific specialties in the field of economic sciences, requirements for structure, sufficiency of sources and design. The decision on the inconsistency of the article with the subject and requirements of the journal can be made by the editors based on the results of the initial review of the article.
- The next step after the input (primary control) is to send the article for review to a specialist in the relevant field (hereinafter referred to as the reviewer), who has a doctorate in science. A member of the editorial board of the journal cannot act as a reviewer. The term of reviewing is from two to four weeks from the moment the work is received by the reviewer. Reviewing is carried out confidentially, without indicating the names of the authors or other information that allows the authors to be identified. Reviews are provided to the authors of the manuscript without indicating the name, position, place of work and signature of the reviewer. If the reviewer indicated the need to improve the article, the author takes into account the comments, reworks and re-submits the article no later than one week, the date of receipt by the editorial office is the date of return of the revised manuscript.
5) The review provides a description of the article, which reveals the following points:
 degree of relevance of the research and tasks solved by the author;
 novelty and adequacy of the proposed methods, comparison of the materials given by the author with the closest analogues, assessment of the conformity of methods, solutions and results obtained with the tasks set in the article;
 completeness of information about the development of a scientific problem and the use of literary sources to substantiate scientific provisions,
 degree of practical significance of the results;
 degree of structuring, consistency, content content of the provisions of a scientific article (the volume of the article is indicated);
 style, literacy of presentation, quality of drawings, informativeness of graphs, tables;
 comments of the reviewer are indicated (if any);
 general conclusion (recommended for publication, recommended with modifications, not recommended, does not correspond to the profile of the journal).
6) The editor-in-chief makes a preliminary decision to accept or reject the manuscript based on the reviewer's review, within a period of not more than a week from the receipt of the review, the editorial board considers the reviewer's review and makes a reasoned decision on the possibility (impossibility) of publishing the article. The editorial board sends comments or information about the editorial decision to the author. If revision is necessary, the author submits a revised version in accordance with the reviewer's comments. The reasoned decision of the editorial board is communicated to the authors of the article within a week after its adoption.
7) The final date of receipt of the work to the editorial office is the date of receipt of the manuscript, finalized in accordance with the comments of the reviewer. In case of unreasonable refusal of the author to take into account the recommendations of the reviewer and finalize the manuscript, the article is removed from consideration. The authors may, in writing, justify the refusal regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the reviewer. In this case, the explanatory letter of the authors is sent to the reviewer, who agrees or disagrees with the authors of the article. If the reviewer disagrees with the authors and there are meaningful comments, the article is not published, about which the authors are notified by an official letter with the wording about the impossibility (inappropriateness) of publishing the article in its present form.

Information about the Publication

Establisher — FSSFEI HPE «South UralStateUniversity».

Editor in Chief - Alexander Leonidovich Shestakov, Rector, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, (351) 263-58-82, email: admin@urc.ac.ru

Series is established in 2007.

Periodicity — once a quarter.

Bulletin is registered in International center ISSN, ISSN number 1997-0129.

Journal is included in the "List of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications in which the main scientific results of dissertations for the degree of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences should be published" in the following specialties:

5.2.1. Economic theory (economic sciences),
5.2.3 Regional and sectoral economy (economic sciences),
5.2.4 Finance (economic sciences),
5.2.6 Management (economic sciences).

Bulletin is included into Abstract Journal and Data Bases of All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information.

Information about the articles published is provided to the Russian Science Citation Index in the prescribed form.

Information about publications is annually provided to International Periodicals Directory «Ulricht's Periodicals Directory».

Complete version of the journal is provided into official web-site of Scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU in the Internet, as well as “Bulletin of SUSU” section on SouthUralStateUniversity web-site which is available free.

Editorial Board

Danilova Irina Valentinovna, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Dissertation Council 24.2.437.07 Regional and Sectoral Economics (Regional Economics; Population Economics and Labor Economics) (Economic Sciences), Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Economic Theory, Regional Economics, State and Municipal Administration, Deputy Director for Science work of the Higher School of Economics and Management, South Ural State University (Editor-in-chief)

Kuvshinov Mikhail Sergeyevich, Doctor of Economics, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Dissertation Council D212.298.07, a member of the Dissertation Council D999.118.02, a member of the Dissertation Council D212.287.01, Professor of the Department of Economics and Finance, South Uralsky State University (Deputy Chief Editor)

Korotina Natalia Yurievna, Doctor of Science (Economics), assistant professor, professor of the department "Economic security ", South Ural State University (Deputy Chief Editor)

Denisova Taya Vitalievna, Candidate of Science (Economics), associate professor of the Department of Economics and Finance, South Ural State University (executive secretary)

Editorial Council

Plotnikov V. A., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Professor of the Department of General Economic Theory and History of Economic Thought, St. Petersburg State University of Economics
Tretyakova E. A., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Perm State National Research University
Shakhovskaya L. S., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Volgograd State Technical University
Klimova N. I., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Institute of Socio-Economic Research of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Piskun E. I., Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Sevastopol State University
Shelomentsev A. G., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Simchenko N. A., Doctor of Economics, Professor, V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University
V. E. Strovsky, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Ural State Mining University
Tyapukhin A.P., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Director, Orenburg Branch of the Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Aristarkhova M.K., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Professor, Department of Financial, Accounting, and Tax Technologies, Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Ekimova K.V., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Vice-Rector, G.V. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Plekhanova
Gileva T.A., Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship Economics, Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Kelchevskaya N.R., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Economics and Management at Metallurgical and Mechanical Engineering Enterprises, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
Maramygin M.S., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Director of the Institute of Strategic Planning and Financial Analysis, Professor, Department of Finance, Money Circulation and Credit, Ural State University of Economics
Shevchenko S.Yu., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Professor, Department of Economics and Management of Enterprises and Industrial Complexes, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Kuzmenko Yu.G., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Professor, Department of Management, South Ural State University

Publication ethics of a journal

Publication policy of the journal is based on traditional ethical principles of the Russian scientific periodicals and is built in terms of ethical norms of editors and publishers work stated in Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers, developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In the course of publishing editorial board of the journal is led by international rules for copyright protection, statutory regulations of the Russian Federation as well as international standards of publishing. The editorial board recommends the authors to follow the rules and examples of the documents when submitting articles.

The article should be in printed or electronic version in Russian languages. The electronic version should be identical to the printed one. The printed version should have the signatures of all the authors.
The article submitted to the periodical should present a complete scientific research and include new scientific results.
It is forbidden to publish the articles previously published or sent for publication to other periodicals. The author is responsible for the content of the article. The editorial board is entitled to withdraw a published article if there is an evidence of the fact that within publication the rights and general accepted rules of scientific ethics are infringed. The editorial board must inform the author of withdrawal.
Printed version is followed by:
— the act of expert examination about the possibility of publication in public media;
— non-exclusive license agreement of granting the right to use the article;
— agreement for processing of personal data.
The license agreement is to be compiled in 2 copies for the co-authors. The agreement for processing of personal data is to be in one copy. Signing the license agreement the author guarantees the fact that the article is the original version written by the author. He also ensures the granted rights do not infringe the rights of other people or companies.
Chief Editor conducts the policy of prevention and control of publishing conflicts.
The printed version is to be followed by the information about the author who wrote the article and cooperates with the editorial board in the process of submission the article for publishing, contact telephone and e-mail for feedback.
The editorial board is not responsible for artistic, literary or any other types of correction of the articles.
The decision on acceptance of the article for publication is made by the editorial board on the basis of the expert review of the same or related field of study. Final date of acceptance of the article for publication is the date of acceptance of the article with necessary corrections in accordance with the comments of a reviewer. If the authors ignore the comments of the reviewer to make necessary error corrections of the article, the article will not be published. The authors can give reasons for refusal to follow recommendations of the reviewer in the written form. In case of disagreement of the reviewer with the authors the article is not published, the authors are notified about it by the official letter with grounds for refusal to publish the article in the present form. Publication ethics provides fair and objective reviewing process free of business interest and market needs.
The editorial board has the right not to accept articles that are submitted with deviations from the rules.
Articles which are not accepted for publication as well as accompanying documents are returned.
Submission of an article to the editor of the periodical "Bulletin of the SUSU" signifies the agreement of the authors to accept the rules and place full a version of the article to the Internet on the Internet on the official web-site of Scientific on-line library eLIBRARY.RU, and in the section of South Ural State University «Bulletin of the SUSU» for free access as well as to use personal data in public media.

The subject of a journal

ECONOMIC THEORY AND GLOBAL ECONOMY
Methodology of economic system analysis, microeconomics, macroeconomics, institutional economics, transitional economic theory, history of economic thought, global economy

REGIONAL ECONOMY
Territorial organization of the national economy, rational spatial distribution of economic resources, territorial economic differentiation and integration, regional economic policy and its implementation mechanisms, economic foundations of federal relations

ECONOMY AND FINANCE
Current issues in the theory and practice of finance and investment, problems of assessing the solvency and financial stability of economic entities, problems of capital diversification, cost management, the theory of intangible assets, problems of developing methods of economic analysis of enterprise activities, general issues of economic functioning

INVESTMENT AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
Theoretical issues of economic evaluation of investment and innovation projects, investment process planning, innovative models of economic development, investment and innovation processes in sectors of the national economy, at enterprises and in Production complexes

ACCOUNTING, ANALYSIS, AND AUDIT
Current issues of accounting reform, the implementation of International Accounting Standards principles in Russian practice, problems in the development of auditing activities, current issues of tax administration and taxation of economic entities, methodology for organizing management accounting, issues of accounting automation

MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Current issues of the organization and economics of management, modern approaches to enterprise management, new management technologies, industry management, problems of economic, social, and organizational development of enterprises

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Theoretical and historical problems of entrepreneurship, current issues of organizing wholesale and retail trade, supply and sales issues at enterprises, logistics of commercial activities, regional problems of commercial activities, organization and regulation of foreign trade activities

MARKETING
Organization of the marketing process at an enterprise, problems of increasing competitiveness, market research methods, development of product and Pricing policy, integrated marketing communications, modern advertising technologies, product and service branding, merchandising, and point-of-sale communications

LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Problems of designing and operating logistics systems, interactions between logistics system elements, supply chain modeling, commercial logistics, logistics cost analysis, logistics process regulation, transportation system management

SHORT COMMUNICATION
This section publishes research articles on the journal's topics, up to 5 pages in length.

JOURNAL'S POLICY ON PROCESSING THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL DATA

In order to ensure compliance with the requirements of the legislation on personal data, as provided for in Federal Law No. 152-FZ dated July 27, 2006, "On Personal Data," the editorial office of the journal notifies the author of the work that:

Accepting an article for publication in a periodical (journal) requires the publisher to process the author's personal data. In this regard, it is necessary to obtain the consent of the author (the subject of personal data) for the processing of the following personal data:

– last name, first name, patronymic (if any);

– year of birth;

– passport data (series, number, issued by whom and when);

– place of work, position;

– academic degree and/or academic title;

– TIN, SNILS;

– cell phone and/or home phone (if available);

– email address

Some of the specified personal data (passport data, year of birth, TIN, SNILS, cell phone