It is obvious that reputation is an important factor in the success of any organization, including those working in the field of education. In the era of digital transformation the importance of reputation is not reduced, but the process of its formation and strengthening (as well as protection) acquires a new content. In particular, in the digital era the number of sources of information and communication channels and, consequently, reputational risks grow. It is important to consider that the organization has no influence over many sources of information, but, at the same time, the information in those sources is important for representatives of the target audiences, especially for applicants. On that basis, it is important for educational organizations to make the right managerial decisions related to reputation and brand. The paper studies the practices of higher education institutions in the process of managing reputational risks in connection with the activities of third-party reputational agents. In particular, it is noted that the presence in the ratings at high positions should not be a goal in itself for a university, but a natural consequence of its successful work. Therefore, managerial decisions should contribute to forming the reputation implyed by leadership in educational and scientific spheres, and that work should be carried out in cooperation with reputational agents.

The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the science diplomacy role as a value guide in the arena of international relations. The relevance of research is due to the fact that at present science and education are becoming the main sources, resources and, accordingly, opportunities for social development. In addition to the growing trend of learning, the educational and scientific space in geographical, social and political plans is expanding. At the moment, there is no country in which the education system is absent, because the processes of informatization influenced the dissemination and increasing intensity in popularization of knowledge. The issue of the study is the ambiguity in understanding the phenomenon of science iplomacy and the role of academic mobility in it. Academic mobility is traditionally perceived as an opportunity to gain new knowledge, experience, professional skills, but it can convey national interests, present the level and quality of national science, demonstrate the capabilities and potential of researchers. The methodological basis of the study was an interdisciplinary approach, consisting in the study of various possibilities and limitations affecting the development of science diplomacy of academic mobility. Economic, political and social factors influence the formation of a single global concept of science diplomacy, relying on modern trends. The empirical basis of the study is based on the analysis of such sources as regulatory acts and documents at the national and international levels, current scientific articles and analytical materials presented on Internet resources, documents of official websites of international organizations and state bodies of the Russian Federation.

The scientific novelty of the study lies in the generalization and systematization of the positive international experience in the development of science diplomacy and academic mobility on the basis of the adopted methodology.

The practical significance of the article is that the results of the study can be used in the educational process by graduate students, teaching staff of the higher education organizations. Also, the work can be used in further studies, including from the position of confirming or refuting the conclusions made by the author.

The article studies one of the most important mechanisms for sustainable development and innovative modernization of modern enterprises – the reproduction of human resources. The authors, using the example of oil and gas companies, conduct a detailed analysis of that process and highlight its key stages. It is shown that the process of reproduction of the personnel potential covers a set of organizational and managerial measures aimed at identifying both the quantitative needs for personnel and the qualitative individual characteristics of employees, which make it possible to clearly determine the required staffing, rank the personnel and predict its development, taking into account the goals and objectives of the company. The authors determined that the basis of the gradation of personnel potential is a comprehensive analysis of the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the employee, which are concentrated in the so-called “profile portfolio of the employee”. They considered the full cycle of work on the formation of the company’s staffing system and the system for the development of its human resources in a complex and taking into account the needs of specific employees. It is highlighted that modern oil and gas companies are positioned as socially oriented production structures, focused on creating conditions for mobile replenishment of staff needs through the implementation of a detailed and large-scale policy to improve living conditions, social security and the use of free time for employees.

This article attempts to analyze the methods of implementing security threats in the information sphere on economic security. It considers five groups of changes in methods of implementing information security threats that have a significant impact on the economic security of the state and the person and violate economic processes.

The paper presents the transition of the world economy to the vector of decarbonization in order to achieve sustainability, which is a certain challenge for countries, exporting hydrocarbons, including Russia, is chosen as a key area of analysis. Demand for energy in the world is constantly growing and it is important to satisfy it in the context of the energy transition. The article considers the development directions of the Russian energy sector in the context of ongoing transformations in the world economic system. It also notes the priority for the Russian economy of expanding technological opportunities for the use of low-carbon technologies and the development of promising areas of cooperation with partner countries in that field. A conclusion is drawn that the achievement of the goals of sustainable development of the Russian economy is possible due to the environmental factor and requires the adoption of strategic decisions in the energy sector of the country.

The article adresses the key aspects of synergetic management, within which qualitatively new approaches to the organization of modern economic entities are being formed. It is specified that in conditions of instability, crises and paradigm changes, any organization acting as an economic entity should be considered in the context of its social structure, the basic element of which is its personnel – the bearer of individual potential and culture. Positioning an organization as a social system puts forward qualitatively new management tasks, namely the creation of such conditions for the activities of personnel that will achieve a synergistic effect and ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of personnel through the integration of the totality of its potential, coordination of processes of self-organization and reproduction of internal resources at all levels. The authors also consider the conceptual characteristics of an organization as a social system, which make it possible to identify critical aspects and structure-forming imperatives of activity that ensure the functionality and sustainability of the organization. The authors indicated that their compilation into regulatory matrices determines the consistency of the actions of the activity subjects and creates the possibility of intensifying business processes through the cooperation of socio-cultural meanings and activity practices.

The review presents the main results of the conference. Many of the reports considered the nature of changes in the media and communications market, as well as transformations in the labor market caused by political and economic crises. Prospects for the development of the creative economy were analyzed. Current statistical data on the various sectors of the economy were presented. The basic requirements to the graduates of higher educational institutions in communication specialties in obtaining the necessary competences are considered both from the point of view of professional and educational standards and from the employers’ point of view. The tasks on the necessity of adjusting educational programs to meet the new requirements of the communications market are set.

The article reflects the results of the IX All-Russian “Speranskii scientific conference: effective management for sustainable development”, held at the Institute of Economics, Management and Law of the Russian State University for the Humanities on March 31, 2022. It focuses on highlighting the current issues of modern management in the context of new challenges of socio-political and socio-economic nature.

The monograph deals with the relevant issue of luxury in the discourse of social reality. The detailed analysis of luxury as a sociological and economic category, within which the issue fields of the phenomenon are defined, as well as the sociological optics of the study, makes it possible to identify the basic imperatives of luxury in the context of their socio-historical development, the dynamics of transformations in the perception of the phenomenon in modern social reality. The etymological analysis of the concept of luxury carried out by the authors is justified, which made it possible to identify the semantic, moral and other components of the concept, the contradictions that arise in the course of the reduction of the sign-semantic imperatives of luxury, the peculiarity of worldview attitudes and value-normative guidelines that determine the essential and conceptual attitudes of the phenomenon.

The book is designed as an educational and business manual and includes a presentation of all the most important elements of the theory of economic management – functions, principles, methods, tools, staffing. At the same time, thanks to the analysis and author’s interpretation of the content of management, estimates, forecasts, the work represents a fundamental scientific study, completed with recommendations.