Volume 5, Issue 2, 2025

Positive urban agglomeration and its efficient management remain understudied in Russia. However, these processes require a system of strategic priorities to minimize threats, especially in the regions. This paper presents an OTSW analysis of regional agglomeration processes, highlighting their opportunities, threats, strengths, and weaknesses. The research covered the data on population density and real estate market in large agglomerations published by the Federal State Statistics Service and the Institute of Urban Economics in 2016–2023. Agglomerations give their residents more opportunities, i.e., career prospects, education, entertainment, etc. The combined potential of several settlements makes it possible to rationalize production factors while minimizing their logistics to a limited number of large centers. The threats to agglomeration processes include uncontrolled growth that leads to a multi-link territory, thus complicating agglomeration management. In addition, agglomerations attract highly qualified personnel, which contributes to the brain-drain process from small towns and municipal districts. Finally, agglomeration has a negative impact on the environment. Regional agglomerations need good transport infrastructure to connect the core and suburbs. Managing positive agglomeration effects and reducing negative consequences require joint efforts of the state, local authorities, and economic entities. The results can be used to develop new strategies for urban agglomerations and socio-economic regional programs.

An economic crisis is both a threat and a source of opportunity. The article analyzes the impact of the economic crises of the XX–XXI centuries on the strategic capabilities of countries and regions. The author performed a retrospective analysis of economic crises in Russia to study their management on the regional level, consequences, and strategic opportunities for national economies. The research objective was to identify the patterns of their impact on the national and regional development, as well as to propose methodological approaches to managing the economy in crisis conditions. The analysis of the major economic crises of the XX–XXI centuries and their impact on global and national economies served as a background for a retrospective assessment of the crises in Russia and their role in the strategic transformation of the national economy. It revealed the key areas of state regulation of the regional economy during crisis. Despite their short-term negative consequences, economic crises catalyze structural changes, technological development, and institutional transformations in the long run. Successful crisis management depends on the ability of the authorities to adapt, implement reforms, and use the growth potential. In Russia, crises have always stimulated modernization. In modern conditions, they require flexible economic strategies, diversification, technological independence, and strategic leadership. Effective crisis management involves a range of measures and activities, including crisis administration, business support, social protection, and strategic planning.

The article describes the current state of the tourism industry in the Russian Far East and outlines the strategic prospects for its development. The author developed a methodology for strategizing the tourism industry and conducted a comprehensive analysis of the external and internal environments, their economic system, and touristic potential. Various documents regulating tourism in the microregion were checked for consistency and strategic overlaps. An OTSW analysis revealed some prospective directions of international cooperation between the Far Eastern Federal District and foreign countries. The analysis supported by the domestic strategizing theory and methodology made it possible to map the outlines of the Tourism Development Strategy in the Russian Far East.

According to Professor Vladimir L. Kvint’s methodology of strategizing, priorities identified as part of regional strategies should be provided with all types of resources. The availability of resources is the most important element of implementing the provisions stipulated in regional strategic documents. The resource provision system depends on the local priorities, industrial specialization, natural resources, climate, infrastructure, labor power, etc. In their turn, all these factors depend on the availability and accessibility of funds at all stages of expanded economic reproduction in the regional economic turnover. The search for available and optimal fund providers is an important methodological and applied task for the implementation of priorities of regional socio-economic development. The tasks subordinate to the regional economy development strategy involve defining the prospective financial resources, selecting the optimal ones, and managing effective financial relations. A consistent system of industrial priorities makes it possible to assess the attractiveness of various types of internal and external financial sources. In this study, the initial hypothesis was that economic results depend on the structure of fund sources in fixed capital in Russia’s regions. Various types of economic activity in the regions were tested for financial sustainability and grouped by the sustainability of investments in fixed capital for various economic activities. An econometric analysis made it possible to assess the effectiveness of attracting internal or external fund providers for strategic development priorities, depending on the major industry in the region.

The author tested the efficiency of Professor Vladimir L. Kvint’s method of OTSW analysis as applied to the strategic management of rural development in the People’s Republic of China. The research focused on opportunities and threats as external factors, with an emphasis on digital transformation, environmental sustainability, and bridging of interregional gaps. By identifying the major opportunities and threats associated with agricultural digitalization, innovation, and global challenges, the author assessed the strengths and weaknesses of rural areas with their natural, infrastructural, and human potential. The analysis yielded some practical recommendations on how to improve the sustainable rural development strategies based on digital technologies and innovative approaches. The data came from official reports, academic publications, and statistics on the digital agriculture in China. Such digital technologies as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence could improve the agricultural productivity, as well as the quality of life in rural areas. Zhejiang, Chongqing, and Heilongjiang provinces are digital transformation leaders in rural economy. However, interregional gaps, poor human resources, and global threats remain key challenges. The OTSW analysis proved an efficient tool when applied to the strategic management of rural development in China. Agricultural digitalization requires addressing infrastructural gaps, attracting human resources, and adapting innovations to local conditions. These steps will ensure long-term sustainable development and improve China’s position in the global economy.

Strategizing technological sovereignty of a particular economic sector requires an objective value chain and a sectoral/intersectoral division of labor system. It also needs clear and balanced requirements and boundary conditions for commercial attractiveness of the activities that ensure technological leadership. Coffee is one of the best-selling commodities in the world: its annual production and consumption exceed 10 million tons. The global coffee market is a complex system of production and sales relations, the purpose of which is to bring the coffee product to the end consumer. This system consists of three major segments: production and primary processing, roasting, and marketing. As a rule, coffee is produced and processed in the place of origin, i.e., Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and roasted in the place of consumption, i.e., Europe, North America, and Asia. The coffee market in Russia is growing, as is the demand production of roasted coffee, trying to catch up with the demand. The supply volume to Russia is also increasing. However, such is the current economic situation on the Russian market that it requires a prompt response from the domestic stakeholders. The challenges include a shortage of ready-to-drink and preprocessed coffee supply, import restrictions, and the withdrawal of foreign companies from the Russian market. However, these challenges provide opportunities for early import substitution and prospective technological leadership, which means that the national technological leadership in the premium coffee sector needs strategizing. The research objective was to strategize the way to national technological independence in the premium coffee sector based on interrelated aspects of policy, strategy, and tactics, as stipulated by Professor Vladimir L. Kvint’s theory of strategy and methodology of strategizing.

Strategic development of resource-based regions requires diversification of the economy based on the creation of high-tech industries. The purpose of the study is to determine the features of strategizing high-tech industries and to develop an approach to strategizing the coal chemical industry as a basis for strategic transformations of regions dependent on coal mining and export. The work is based on the general theory of strategy, the methodology of strategizing by Academician V.L. Kvint, the methods of comparison, abstraction, classification, economic and statistical analysis are used. It is substantiated that the coal chemical industry as part of chemical production in the context of strategic innovative development can meet the criteria of a high-tech industry. Such industries are characterized by high research activity, the use of the open innovation concept, great complexity and uncertainty, the potential for creating and securing world standards with the subsequent extraction of technological rent. It is shown that the creation of the coal chemical industry in the Kemerovo region – Kuzbass meets the first law of strategy – the law of saving time. To implement the second law of the strategy, a matrix of analysis of competitive advantages of a resource-type region in the development of high-tech industries and complexes is proposed. Strategic principles for the development of high-tech industries and complexes in resource-type regions are developed and substantiated in accordance with the rules of strategic thinking of V.L. Kvint. Taking into account the best world experience, a structural and logical diagram of the sequence of developing a strategy for the coal chemical industry in a resourcetype region is proposed. Conclusions. The developed approach to the strategic development of high-tech industries allows ensuring the leadership of resource-type regions in the national and global economic space, their harmonious development, based on the formation of their own scientific, technological, industrial base for the production of products with high added value (in particular, coal chemical products).

The article reviews the strategic competitiveness demonstrated by the Soviet economy in the field of industrial construction from the perspective of achievements in major industries, i.e., energy, petrochemical production, mechanical engineering, etc., depending on their share in the national gross domestic product. The projects were arranged chronologically and divided into those located on the territory of the Soviet Union and those located abroad. The author focused on such parameters of large-scale construction projects as technology, equipment, design institutes, and labor resources. The qualitative development of the industrial construction in the USSR made it possible to reach technological sovereignty in several industries, despite the poor technology, outdated equipment, and personnel shortage. The large number of foreign projects means that the USSR possessed a fairly high level of competitiveness on the global market, which, in its turn, indicates competitive advantages and a certain strategic approach. However, the Soviet economy developed unevenly, with resources being distributed and redistributed irrationally. The imbalance towards the defense sector and related industries prevented the national economy from using its competitive advantages to the full. The materials and conclusions of this historic review may help strategizing the current Russian economy at different levels.

The methodology of strategizing demonstrates good prospects for transforming the national innovative industrial clusters into an engine of the innovation economy. Based on unified methodological standards, it may render creative solutions to the actual task of developing strategies for territories of advanced innovative development. The author applied the methodology of strategizing to innovative industrial clusters with their developmental specifics. The article introduces the key strategizing tools that can increase the competitiveness and innovation activity of these clusters. Their integration into strategizing the economic agents of the innovation economy and innovation clusters as their associations is bound to bring about some major strategic advantages. The author’s recommendations relied on the methodology of strategizing developed by Professor Vladimir L. Kvint. Applied to the existing infrastructure, they will turn innovative industrial clusters into territories of advanced innovative development.