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The article seeks to identify the features of creative industries in Japanese cities with a population over 1 million people. Since there is no universal definition of creative industries in Japan and no officially adopted classification, we analyzed and aggregated various sources of information to develop a classification of creative industries, which takes into account specific features of Japanese culture and traditions. The analysis of creative industries in the largest cities has revealed that the advanced creative industry, i. e. "IT and computer services", is the most developed creative sector in Japan. The most widely spread traditional industries include "crafts and applied arts" and "architecture". For all 12 cities included in the analysis we calculated specialization coefficients, i.e. the ratio of the share of creative organizations and employed in the creative industries in a city to the corresponding shares of the industry in the country, and built petal diagrams for all creative industries. As a result, we have obtained an understanding about creative profiles of all largest Japanese cities. We applied a comparative-geographical method to identify territorial differences in the development of creative industries in Japanese cities, and a cartographic method to reveal the territorial structure of creative industries at the national level. The study has shown that the creative industries are unevenly distributed over the country and the territorial structure of creative industries in Japan is monocentric with hyperconcentration in Tokyo, the "creative hub" of the whole country, which is intended to become a creative center of Asia. Our study revealed that as the city's population decreases, the number of creative organizations and people employed in creative industries is declining quite steadily. The progress of the creative sector is an important component of the "Cool Japan" national policy, which views Japanese traditions and cultural heritage as innovations for economic growth and the development of creative industries. Depending on the number of found creative industries we identified first-, second-, and third-order "creative cores" which have a potential to become creative centers in their regions.

The issues of determining and assessing the effectiveness of national economic (macroeconomic) industries' integration into global value chains (GVC) are of great importance in the context of globalization processes revision. The paper provides the criterion basis for assessing comprehensive national economic (macroeconomic) efficiency of high-tech industries participation in GVCs based on the comparison of indicators of downward (Backward GVC) and upward (Forward GVC) industry links in GVCs and the indicator of revealed comparative advantage in trade (RCA). The author proposes and substantiates the criterion of effective macroeconomic integration — a combination in the dynamics of positive RCA and the excess of positive Forward GVC over Backward GVC. Drawing on the analysis of the Trade in Value Added indicators of the OECD database, the author argues that with such combinations the high-tech industry expands in foreign markets due to the outstripping growth of technological conversions with high added value in its territory, which has a beneficial effect on the growth rate of the national value-added indicator in the gross export of manufacturing industry. This expresses the effectiveness of national economic structural shifts, which indicates an increase in high-tech redistributions on the country territory, aimed at exporting products of manufacturing industries. The study reveals the success of the country 'import substitution' integration model of high-tech industries into GVCs. The analysis concludes with empirical cases from Kazakhstan pharmaceutical industry and digitalization of chemical global TNCs business flows providing a valid criterion for effective macroeconomic integration in GVCs.

The paper covers operations features of Huntington Ingalls Industries, one of the leading contractors of the US Department of Defense (DoD), in terms of financial performance and business outlook. In general, taking into account the increase in the DoD budget and the increase in appropriations for the procurement of military equipment and weapon systems, as well as R&D, we can say that this had a positive impact on companies of the US military–industrial complex as a whole (both larger and smaller) and led to improved financial performance and level of investment attractiveness. At the same time, it is quite obvious that the high growth rates of the DoD budget cannot be maintained for a while, which in the long run presents significant risks for the companies, as it can lead to a decrease in funding and the volumes of government contracts. Since there are a significant number of studies and publications for large companies in the sector, the author puts emphasis on smaller companies, the number of papers on which is small, but analysis on which is important because of their role and functions in the US military–industrial complex. These include Huntington Ingalls Industries, which specializes in the implementation of the US Navy's shipbuilding program. The analysis showed that the dynamics of its financial and economic operations, in general, can be characterized positively, despite the observed moderate decrease in values of some financial ratios. The outlook for its business in the long run can be assessed as sustainable, but for the period after 2025, attention should be paid to a number of risks that are primarily associated with a reduction of the US Navy shipbuilding program.

Erstveröffentlichung der Rezension in deutscher Sprache auf H-Soz-Kult am 26.02.2020: Boris Gehlen: Rezension zu: Bähr, Johannes; Kopper, Christopher: Industrie, Politik, Gesellschaft. Der BDI und seine Vorgänger 1919–1990. Göttingen 2019. ISBN 978-3-8353-3405-2 , In: H-Soz-Kult, 26.02.2020, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-28475 ; Публикация рецензии на немецком языке на H-Soz-Kult от 26 февраля 2020 г.: Boris Gehlen: Rezension zu: Bähr, Johannes; Kopper, Christopher: Industrie, Politik, Gesellschaft. Der BDI und seine Vorgänger 1919–1990. Göttingen 2019. ISBN 978-3-8353-3405-2 , In: H-Soz-Kult, 26.02.2020, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-28475

This article features an overview of the common approaches towards studying cultural industries in general and music industries in particular, while describing means of developing "research design" (choosing theoretical perspective, posing research question and selecting methodological toolset), which are currently quite prevalent in culture study and sociology.

The author examines the current main trends when it comes to researching cultural industries: the "cultural production perspective", viewing cultural production as a combination of "creative clusters", as well as an approach which sees collaborative networks as the primary actors in the cultural industry. The separately examined approaches towards studying cultural production in the music industry are as follows: examining the influence of market structure on consumer behavior, studying collaborative networks in music, studying the political dimension of music production, and finally communication between various levels of decision making within music industries. Also the article analyzes the most commonly used objects for criticism in a variety of theoretical-methodological approaches. The author evaluates the applicability of those methods utilized by sociology for studying musical and cultural production within the Russian music industry: social network analysis, qualitative and quantitative content-analysis, secondary analysis of statistical data, as well as in-depth and expert interview. Also the limitations of using the aforementioned methods when it comes to researching Russia's musical-cultural industry are demonstrated.

The analysis is summed up with a conclusion on these methods being highly applicable in further academic research within the field in question. Given the macro-economic development of the field of producing and consuming music in Russia, together with the complete digitization of these processes, the author assumes that the research of cultural and music industries is a rather promising prospect. The rate at which Russian musical and other cultural industries are currently undergoing transformation lead us to the conclusion that this could be a potentially relevant line of study in the realm of journalism and Academia.

The article describes the main stages of shipbuilding management system in Russia. It has been shown that the formation of the modern state corporations can become a bud for forming comprehensive ministries with centralized control. Management in shipbuilding and shiprepairing industries has in always been centralized in Russia. Most state shipbuilding and related plants were constructed in 1860s. The Russian government were creat-ing all infrastructural industries for this purpose. Since 1856 a person in the rank of General-Admiral was at the head of the Russian Navy and the Naval Department. He was appointed by the Emperor of the members of the imperial family. At the begin-ning of the XX century there were 26 state-owned and private shipyards in Russia. They built mainly warships. Almost all pri-vate factories were then taken over by the Navy Ministry. There was an intensive development of the Russian military shipbuilding during the years before the World War I. Since the beginning of the XX century, the government began to actively stimulate domestic shipbuilding. Russia started acquiring foreign companies, foreign capital and importing ships from abroad. Before the Revolution of 1917, the dockyards being mainly man-aged by the Marine Technical Committee of the Navy Ministry. The Committee exercised technical control over shipbuilding and the supreme supervision over the work fulfilled on vessels, in ports and factories. Marine affairs man-agement system did not changed much after the Revolution of 1917. Centralized management of the shipbuilding industry by ministries remained unchanged during the first 40 years of the Soviet Union. Only the name of the administrative machine was changed. The situation with the form of the government remained virtually unchanged in the pre-war and post-war period. Today the shipbuilding industry is controlled by the "Shipbuilding - shiprepairing Centers. Ship repairing industry may be incorporated into the control system as a natural element. Shiprepairing industry, as well as shipbuilding one, is considered to be a source of the fleet renovation. This form of the management allows Russia return the status of the leading maritime power, to create its own naval fleet, research, transport, fishing fleet, to ensure the competitiveness of the shipbuilding industry. Thus, the Russian shipbuilding industry can compete with the most powerful shipbuilding companies in the world. Construction of high-tech ships and vessels will provide the Russian maritime safety. ; Рассмотрены основные этапы формирования системы управления судостроением в России. Впервые показано, что судоремонтное производство может быть включено в систему управления как естественный элемент, а формирование современных государственных корпораций может стать основой для организации полноценных министерств при централизованном управлении.