The article presents materials related to the analysis of the causes for management dysfunctions in modern sports and further prospects for the development of sports in a changing world order. Paradoxically, the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent reaction of sports officials of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and international sports federations (IFS) made it possible to really look at the existing models of management of individual sports and the entire Olympic system from an applied aspect.

Governance and power in sport is viewed through the lens of theories of symbolic capital, critical realism, dominance theory and the three-level dimension of power in sport.

In the analytical part, the focus is on the fact that international sport does not adhere to a unitary or federal model of governance, but corresponds to the principles of a polycentric management system, since power in sport is asymmetrical and dispersed across separately established bodies with overlapping jurisdictions, which are not always in a hierarchical relationship with each other. That is why IOC President Thomas Bach made recommendations to remove Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competitions, cancel competitions on the territory of these countries and ban Russian and Belarusian state symbols. The IOC leadership has no other management levers to make decisions.

The author identified that dysfunctions in the management model led to the dependence of the Olympic movement on American capital and unfair distribution of income; creating a trend towards the development of regional sports projects and the formation of a new geopolitical economy of sports. 

The article considers the place and role of trendwatching in modern business. First, a comparative analysis is done on the basic concepts with which the trend is identified (tendency, fashion, analytics, technological entrepreneurship). The basic classification of trends is carried out according to scalability, key areas of society, industry (market) affiliation, dominance of position and dynamism of development. The priority properties of the trend are determined: direction, strength, duration. It is emphasized that trendwatching is an important part of any innovation process, since it provides an opportunity to anticipate new technological, consumer and other trends. In general, trendwatching is increasingly becoming a tool for finding opportunities that contribute to successful competition in the 21st century market by forming a proposal based on potential user expectations, outpacing rivals operating in the industry under study, taking into account the influence of macro-environment factors and adequate adjustment by corporate management. To that end the author gives the methodology for determining the trend, an important place in which is occupied by the means (sources) of its research and selection. The issue of using the consumer trend matrix is discussed, which gives good results in finding free niches and contributes to the opening of new market windows, which is especially important for beginning business startups. At the end of the article, it is noted that the active use of trendwatching promotes technological entrepreneurship, and observing trends provides the business world with the necessary information, as a result of which it becomes more rational for companies to choose promising areas to increase their competitiveness and growth.

The article is about a factor for decreased motivation of employees in the organization – emotional burnout syndrome. According to the survey of NAFI Analytical Center, every second employee felt emotional burnout in the past or is currently experiencing it. The author identifies main reasons for the emotional burnout syndrome and practices that contribute to the prevention of burnout. Special attention is focused on the nature of stress as the main cause of emotional burnout in employees. One solution to issues associated with burnout is the integration of comprehensive well-being programs that affect all spheres of human life. The main goal of well-being programs is to improve the quality of life of employees, increase the level of vitality and stress resistance. The classical spheres of well-being, which are the basis for the development of appropriate programs, are comparable to the classical motivation theory of A. Maslow, which describes the hierarchy of human needs, from basic physiological needs to spiritual and higher-level needs. 

The article deals with the influence of financial technologies in the digital economy and possible innovative solutions in the field of finance and financial services.

The article considers a methodological approach to the implementation of blockchain technology in the Russian payment system “Mir”. It substantiates the main stages of introducing blockchain technology into the activities of that system. Proposals are made out for selecting the optimal partner for the development and implementation of blockchain for the “Mir” payment system. In particular it was proposed and justified how to introduce blockchain technologies into the work of the “Mir” payment system. Project proposals were generated and the project for introducing blockchain technologies into the work of the “Mir” payment system was justified, followed by calculation of the economic effect from the practical realization of project proposals.

 Economic forecast of the project introduction under realistic, optimistic and pessimistic scenarios was developed.

The article considers discusses the issues of effective business conduct in conditions of growing uncertainty in the business environment. In recent years, that uncertainty has increased sharply, which is determined, in particular, by two successive macroshocks (pandemic, 2020 and sanctions, 2022), which gave rise to poorly predictable changes in the Russian economy. The authors define the situation as political-economic turbulence. Political and economic turbulence in general negatively affects the efficiency of management in the economy, which is confirmed by available statistical data. At the same time, there are numerous counterexamples when, even in a turbulent environment, due to effective management it is possible to obtain high results in economic activity. It is shown that the current economic conditions require a revision of management approaches. Renewed management must be focused on protecting against the risks caused by turbulence, while at the same time taking advantage of the new opportunities it generates. In that regard, it is recommended to more actively use the project approach in management. The formation of a portfolio of projects balanced in terms of risks and performance allows economic systems to successfully function and develop even in conditions of political and economic turbulence. 

Today, social entrepreneurship is one of the most dynamically developing types of entrepreneurial activity and acts, along with government agencies, as a driver of sociocultural changes in society. Using an entrepreneurial approach, social entrepreneurs solve pressing social challenges and act in the public interest. The ability to quickly respond to emerging demands from society, meet the needs of different categories of the population, provide equal access and new opportunities that promote socio-economic adaptation and build an inclusive society are decisive for the development of the institution of social entrepreneurship. The specific nature of such activity is dependent on the particular field, within which, for example, sociocultural projects are implemented. The growing interest in the cultural sphere and the trend of active support for projects in that area determined the purpose of the article – an analysis of the characteristics of sociocultural entrepreneurship.

The article is focused on the consideration of the concept of mesosism in the context of management by socio-economic development. It also provides a methodology for assessing and managing the development of socioeconomic mesosystems. The article proposes a number of methods that will allow assessing the level of development of socio-economic systems for further development of measures to improve their management efficiency.

Systemic economics considers the concept of “mesoeconomics” mainly in the context of the economic sphere, focusing on the regional dimension [Kleiner 2006]. At the same time, it is advisable to expand the conceptual framework to include the following aspects in the field of mesoeconomics research:

– Industry clusters and ecosystems – groups of interconnected enterprises and organizations united by a single industry specialization, common technologies and markets;

 – Local economic systems – autonomous territorial entities with their own resources, production base and infrastructure, but interacting with the external environment;

 – Global value chains – networks of interconnected enterprises and organizations engaged in joint activities for the production and distribution of goods and services on a global scale. The development of the theoretical foundations of mesoeconomics will allow not only to study, but also to manage those objects, contributing to an increase in the efficiency of the economic system as a whole. It will require the involvement of an interdisciplinary approach combining methods of systems analysis, economics, sociology and other sciences. Thus, mesoobjects take the modern economy beyond the neoclassical paradigm, opening up new horizons for research and practical application. The system economy, expanded on the basis of the proposed concepts, serves as a promising theoretical basis for building mesoeconomical models and developing effective management mechanisms. 

The author of the article attempts to analyze the concept of sovereign according to Carl Schmitt’s legal decisionism and political theology. – the doctrines developed by the German philosopher and jurist Carl Schmitt (1888–1985).

Decisionism is rightfully considered as one of the basic concepts of Schmitt’s political and legal discourse. In his voluminous treatise “Dictatorship” (1910), Schmitt initiates a detailed doctrine of decizionism, which is based on the adoption of a political decision justified by the relevant authority (and not the law). Later (in 1922), Schmitt publishes his “Political Theology”, which again takes into its optics decisionalism and those of its state-legal concepts that can be correlated with theological ones. Sovereign, sovereignty and state of emergency are the first to belong to them. And finally, in his work “On Three Types of Legal Thinking” (1934), he works out classification of legal thinking (in which it is permissible to assume the simultaneous existence of all three of its types), rejecting normativism and justifying his own inclination towards decisionism and thinking in terms of the specific order.

Some researchers of Schmitt’s works – and in particular his “Political Theology” – believe that by correlating sovereign with God, state of emergency with a miracle, and political action with Way of the Cross, Schmitt tried to protect his doctrine of decisionism from any criticism, since being “passed” through the prism of the theological, not the critical politics, it became an object of faith, taking the form and expression of an indisputable dogma. In fact, such an “exploratory” vision of Schmitt’s analogies did not explain either the interpretatively complex theory of the sovereign or his political theology, but only simplified and sometimes vulgarized it.

 While researching the genealogy of political power, Schmitt attempted to establish a type of sovereign being characteristic for a particular era (the Pope – during the Early and Classical Middle Ages (V–XIV centuries); the Protestant reformer (represented by J. Calvin) – during the late Middle Ages (XVI century), the absolute monarch – during the period of European absolutism (XVI–XVIII centuries), the German people – during the existence of the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918–1933), the Reich president – during the birth of national socialism (the 30s of the XX century). The essential nature of each of them is revealed in the process of taking only those political decisions that the German Schmitt defines as decisions on introducing a state of emergency.

At the same time, each epoch “sets” its own sovereign, what implies the obligatory subordination of its political decision to the spirit of the time in a particular historical period. Thus, with the progressive development of political theology, (legal) decisionism is also developing, resulted in the concepts of sovereign, sovereignty and emergency decision “acquiring” new semantic meanings.

In modern conditions with the variety of forms and types of financial products and services offered on the market, as well as many organizations offering them to clients, a special role is played by the activities of the Bank of Russia aimed at protecting the rights of consumers of financial products and services, preventing violations of those rights, as well as increasing the level of financial literacy of the population. The reactive and preventive activities of that Bank in that area make it possible to effectively address the issue of customer rights violations.

The article deals with a comparative analysis of the provisions of the current emergency legislation, which stipulates the procedure for the establishment and implementation of extraordinary (special) legal regimes. It studies the acts of federal legislation regulating the legal regimes of military, state of emergency, emergency situations, counteraction to terrorism and extremist activities, as well as regional legislation on natural and man–made emergencies (a total of 93 normative acts). It also notes that the legislator (especially the regional one) approaches the issue of normative and legal consolidation of the subject of regulation in different ways, the definition and differentiation of the grounds for the introduction of extraordinary (special) legal regimes, the powers of public administration bodies and their officials who ensure the implementation of such regimes. For example, the legislation on the public protection from natural and man-made emergencies, countering terrorism and extremist activities does not provide grounds for the introduction of appropriate regimes.

The author reveals a discrepancy between the normative content of the legislative acts of the subjects of the Russian Federation in terms of securing the extraordinary powers of the public administration. In order to eliminate uncertainties in the issues of correlation between the objects of legal regulation and the grounds for the introduction of extraordinary (special) administrative and legal regimes, a proposal is substantiated on the need to formulate blank legal norms defining the grounds for the introduction of extraordinary (special) legal regimes and aimed at ensuring their implementation. Based on the results of the study, a conclusion is made that it is necessary to bring into line the content of regulatory legal acts of the subjects of the Russian Federation, which give public administration bodies and their officials extraordinary powers in the field of protecting the population and territories from emergency situations. Possible directions for improving legislation in the sphere are described