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The Department of Economics and Management of Agro-Industrial Complex Enterprises

Department of Economics and Management of Agro-Industrial Complex Enterprises at the Belarusian State Economic University is specialized in training economists and managers for the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Belarus. The department was established in 1998 based on two former graduating departments: the Department of Organization and Planning of Agricultural Production and the Department of Agricultural Economics.

Chair of the Department–Andrei Korolev, Candidate of Economic Science, Associate Professor.

Specialties

The department trains students for major 1-25 01 07 Business Economics and Management, specialization 1-25 01 07 15 in AIC Business Economics and Management; qualified as Economic Managers.

Educational activities

Disciplines

Academic disciplines are assigned to the department:
- for students of the 1st stage of higher education:

• Business Economics; Agro-Ecological Management
• Agro-Industrial Marketing and Price Setting
• International Business Activity in Agro-Industrial Complex
• Investment Project Development
• Innovative Technology in AIC areas
• International Agro-business
• Management
• Basics of Innovative Economy of Agro-Industrial Complex Enterprise
• Organization of entrepreneurial activity
• Production Management
• Labour Management
• Management of Agricultural Products Storage, Processing and Sales
• Basics of Norming, Standardization and Certification in Agro-Industrial Complex
• Corporate Planning
• Production Technology
• Agricultural Ecology
• Process and Product Technical Standardization in Agro-Industrial Complex
• Business Project Management in Agro-Industrial Complex
• Economics and Infrastructure Engineering
• Economics of Technical Support Service for Agro-Industrial Enterprise
• Economics and Innovation Management
• Economics of Agritourism and Owner-operated Farms
• Small-scale Agribusiness Economics
• Environmental Economics and Energy Efficiency Evaluation
• Sales Economics and Logistics in Agro-Industrial Complex
• Labour Economics

- for students of 2nd stage of higher education:

• Management of business processes in food systems
• Food markets
• Economic analysis
• Organization's entry strategy to foreign markets
• Sustainable development of food systems
• Risk management in the organization.

The department cooperates with research institutes and agricultural universities of the republic. There is the branches of the department in the Republican Scientific Unitary Enterprise "Institute of System Research in the Agro-industrial Complex of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus" and in the State Scientific Institution "The Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus".
Doctors and Candidates of Sciences: staff members of scientific institutions, heads and specialists of bodies of state government and local self-government – are invited to deliver case study lectures.
The department actively cooperates with the basic organizations: OJSC "Agrokombinat "Dzerzhinskiy", CJSC "Belarusian National Biotechnological Corporation", Consulting unitary enterprise "Agrobusinessconsult".

Students use the economic performance of basic enterprises when writing their term papers and graduation theses.

Student research laboratory "Agroeconomics" is operated by the department in order to improve the quality of specialist training and involve students in research work.

The main areas of student research are:

• Innovative vector of agricultural business development;
• Greening of the agro-industrial complex;
• Sustainable rural territory development;
• Competitiveness and sustainability of development of agri-food systems;
• Innovative management in agro-industrial complex.

Students submit their research results to international and national contests of student research papers, as a result, they have repeatedly become laureates and prize-winners, taking 1-3 places.
Graduates of the department successfully work as specialists, chief specialists, business analysts, experts, consultants, heads of in the agro-food sector enterprises, scientific institutions, educational institutions, governmental and local self-governmental bodies.

Graduates of the department are able to competently solve the following economic and managerial tasks:

• justifying and implementing strategies and tactics for competitive functioning of an organization;
• creating and implementing effective management at an enterprise
• effective business planning and development of current and long-term plans of an organization;
• effective human resource management;
• effective innovative, financial and marketing activities of an organization on the national and foreign markets;
• effective business planning and development of long-term and current plans of organization;
• Expert analysis of economic, financial, logistic and marketing activities of an organization.

The department offers Master and Post-graduate Degree programs.

Since 2012 the department trains students for majors Economics and Management at the Enterprise (1-25 81 07) under the practice-oriented Master's program Top Business Management in the Agricultural Complex;
Since 2017 - under the Master's program Green Economy and Agribusiness Development created in cooperation with the Department of Environmental Economics.
Since 2019, the department provides Master's Degree program in Economics (1-25 80 01) specialized in Economics and Business Process Management in Food Systems, awarding the degree "Master".

Postgraduate students are trained in Economics and National Economy Management (08.00.05).

Research work

The department's main directions of scholarly research include:

• management of territorial development;
• rural economy diversification;
• theory and practice of economic risk management at agro-industrial complex enterprise;
• current trends and development prospects of international agribusiness;
• sustainable development of food markets;
• innovative technologies for the production and processing of agricultural products;
• assessment of investment attractiveness of agro-industrial complex and investment performance analysis;
• problems of labor motivation in agro-industrial complex;
• development of agricultural raw materials and food markets;
• small-scale and medium agribusiness development within sustainable territorial development;
• development of food export;
• trends and prospects of development of entrepreneurship.

A number of study guides are published by the academic staff of the department:

1. Labour Organization, Regulation and Remuneration in the Agro-Industrial Complex: textbook / M.K. Zhudro [and others]; under general editorship of M.K. Zhudro, S.B. Shapiro, V.I. Sous. – Minsk: Higher school, 2012. – 461 p.
2. Business Plan for Organization Development: Guidelines for Automated Business Plan Preparation for Annual Development of Agricultural Organization Using Standard Software Package "NIVA-SHP: Business Plan" / M.K. Zhudro and others: Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus. - Minsk: SDCC of Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus, 2013. – 176 p.
3. Economics and infrastructure organization in Agro-Industrial Complex: Textbook/ A.S. Saiganov, J.K. Tarasevich, L.V. Korbut, I.P. Kashanskaya; under general editorship of A.S. Saiganov. – Minsk: DCC of the Ministry of Finance, 2013. – 400 p.
4. Labour Organization, Regulation and Remuneration in the Agro-Industrial Complex: study guide / M.K. Zhudro [and others]; under general editorship of M.K. Zhudro, S.B. Shapiro, V.I. Sous. – Minsk: Higher school, 2014. – 255 p.
5. Environmental Economics in Agro-Industrial Complex: Textbook/ M.K. Zhudro, V.M. Badina, M.M. Zhudro. – Minsk: DCC of the Ministry of Finance, 2014. – 330 p.
6. L.V. Lagodich, Sustainability of the Food Market Development in the Republic of Belarus: theory and methodology: monograph. / L.V. Lagodich. – Minsk: Belarus Science, 2015. – 257 p.
7. Mechanisms for Improving Efficiency of State Economy Regulation at the Republic and Regional Levels: monograph. / P.V. Leshchilovsky [and others]; under general editorship of P.V. Leshchilovsky, A.V. Mozol. – Minsk: Our Idea, 2017. – 227 p.
8. Investment Project Development: study guide / M.K. Zhudro, A.A. Getz, J.K. Tarasevich, T.V. Kiyan; under general editorship of M.K. Zhudro, A.A. Getz. – Minsk: BSEU, 2017. – 205 p.
9. L.V. Lagodich, Sustainability of Food Market Development: monograph. / L.V. Lagodich. – Minsk: Misanta, 2017. – 292 p.