The article attempts to investigate the factors that influence the growth and performance of small and medium-sized businesses in the milling and cereal industry. Based on the analysis, the following key factors are identified: intra-organizational elements, such as the company's resources, its capabilities and organizational structure, experience and competence level, a business environment that includes a microlevel and a macrolevel.

Instruments that promote the diffusion of technologies are an actual topic for discussion both in the world and Russian literature, since it has not only scientific but also wide practical application. This article considers such a tool as a technology corridor and its impact on the development of payment card technology.

This article describes the main consumer values in the B2C e-commerce market, as well as the place of loyalty programs among the factors that influence the choice of the online store. The purpose of the research is to reveal the importance of loyalty programs in the context of creating a consumer value. The questionnaire provided information on the ratio of buyers participating and not participating in loyalty programs, about the impact of participation on purchasing decisions, about customer expectations from loyalty programs, and about loyalty programs that attract buyers. Also, the impact of dissatisfaction with the benefits gained through participation in loyalty programs and the loyalty of consumers was analyzed.

The topic of consumer engagement in co-creation is actively discussed in the world economic literature. One of the key performance indicators of such engagement are customer loyalty and word-of-mouth. Electronic wordof-mouth influence on business of hotel facilities, which are focused on customer’s impression. This article is devoted to the analysis of the impact of electronic word-of-mouth factors on consumers’ buying decision-making processes and hotels’ business models transformations based on the changed consumer’s role.

According to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 925I companies that purchase products within the framework of Law No. 223-FZ from 01.01.2017 should give priority to goods, works and services of Russian origin. This article analyzes the issues relating to the actions of customers and participants of procurement procedures in changed circumstances, namely: planning the tender prices, choice of procurement methods, communication with suppliers, as well as providing foreign products of national treatment in accordance with international agreements, such as GATT (WTO) and the Eurasian Economic Community Treaty, etc. 

Various options of strategies of development of national economy offered by representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development, Stolypin club and the Center of strategic development are considered. The critical analysis of the considered options of strategy from positions of need of shift of accent of the presented strategy with financial on real sector of economy is given. It is indicated the need of the accounting of forecasts of development of national economy and the author's version of the forecast of development of domestic economy taking into account cyclic regularities is presented.

In the article, the author considers the experience obtained from the transformation of the pension system during the transition from the USSR to the Russian Federation as well as during further improvements. The boundary conditions for the transition necessary to ensure conceptual, social and parametric continuity are described. Impact of liquidation of public consumption funds on a pension system is considered and volatility of a replacement ratio during the transition is analyzed.