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The paper pays attention to an important issue—increase the success of medium-sized enterprises. On the basis of comparative analysis across sectors of economic activity (trade and construction) the most successful business practices are studied. Based upon the authors’ methodology for assessing the success of small and medium-sized businesses an integral indicator of success has been identified, which allowed comparing the selected companies. Then the most successful enterprises (leaders of success) have been studied details by a number of characteristics: financial and operational. This eventually, helped to identify factors of success and to develop a portrait of the leader of success in the studied sectors. By means of an integrated description of the leaders of the success guidelines for similar medium-sized enterprises have been developed to enable them to improve their efficiency and to move into the rank of success.
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The study was performed at the expense of a grant of the Russian Science Foundation (project â„– 14-18-02508).
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Nikolaeva, E., Pletnev, D. (2018). Successful Practices of Russian Medium-Sized Enterprises. In: Bilgin, M., Danis, H., Demir, E., Can, U. (eds) Eurasian Business Perspectives. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, vol 8/1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67913-6_9
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