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Crowdsourcing as management tool: examples of solving local problems

The economic crisis in the country, the limited capacity to attract foreign capital actualize the need to find internal resources for investing development at all levels: from the state to a settlement and an individual enterprise. One way to find solutions to these problems using relatively free assistance is crowdsourcing. The article examines the main factors that influence the success of crowdsourcing projects locally. Identification of these factors is based on the analysis of successful examples of crowdsourcing projects for solving problems of local development in Ukraine.

Transport services as an object of analysis and management

The transport service is analyzed in terms of the parameters of quality and price. The main factors that form a demand for transport services are determined. The analysis of the factors that determine the concept of transport services quality in the context of their consumer evaluation is conducted.  It is investigated how fluctuations of transport services prices affect the demand for them in respect to different basic characteristics of the services. Scientific approaches to a set of factors actualizing the demand for transportation services are analyzed.

Strategic dimension of corporate social responsibility

А concept of social responsibility of an enterprise in the context of planning and implementing its development strategy is investigated in the article. Nowadays company competitiveness in related not only to the price of its products, production conditions, business conditions but also to its corporate social responsibility (CSR). The idea of CSR involves building the shared value and creating utility for both the company itself and the society or the environment.

Scientific interpretation of the category of effectiveness

Scientific approaches to defining the essence of the category of effectiveness are studied. In  terms  of  the  systems  approach,  the  structure-forming  factors  of  the  organization’s effectiveness  are  substantiated.  It  is  shown  that  the  identified  factors  and  criteria  of effectiveness are the basis for creation of the organization’s effectiveness control system.