Vol. 16 No. 3 (2021)

A section “Economic Theory” in the third issue of the Journal focuses on the principles of the system-evolutionary approach and provides the results of a comprehensive theoretical analysis of entrepreneurship’s nature, content, and essence.
A section “Regional Economy” offers tools for measuring COVID-19 pandemic impact on the social economic development of regions in Russia and the resilience of the regional systems to the pandemic with regard to demographic factors, including region’s population density, the incidences of coronavirus infection, and the coronavirus mortality rate.
Then, a final section of the Journal “ Enterprise Economy and Management of Enterprises, Organizations, Branches, Complexes” justifies the development and operationalization of a scientific and industrial complex’s model which contributes into setting up efficient integrated structures with an extensive scientific, innovative digital, industrial capacity; efficiency measurement methodology for the interfirm interactions was developed in the context of identification and analysis of the factors contributing into the result-focused application of the information communication technologies; theoretical principles for improvement and an algorithm for a strategic planning methodology for the national food balance were defined; the challenges of the “shock” coronavirus driven transition to distance learning were outlined for the students from the national universities, a rating model for assessing the relevance of the these challenges was developed, and an organizational managerial mechanism was proposed to handle them.