In the conditions of rapid growth of service industries and, above all, business services, the importance of advisory services (consulting) is steadily enhancing for the domestic economy and the growth of its competitiveness. The article analyzes the basic processes occurring in the modern Russian market of consulting services, the trends and patterns of its development, including the growing processes of concentration and centralization, the underdevelopment of market institutions, the lack of legislation regulating this market segment, structural defects associated with the excessive income growth of the management consulting. All this allowed us to draw some important conclusions about the unstable and contradictory nature of the development of the domestic market of consulting, the deformation of its structure and the absence of the state policy in the sphere of regulation of the consulting services market, and to develop recommendations for its stabilization, including the improvement of legislation in the field of intellectual property, the expansion and strengthening of the foreign economic positions of the consulting companies in Russia, the efficiency improvement of their participation in the international division of labor. The article is intended for students studying methods of conducting marketing research on the market of consulting services, teachers of the discipline "Marketing in services", "Consulting" as well as for marketing managers and managers of consulting companies elaborating strategies for their development.

The article is aimed at revealing pedagogical potential of an elective career guidance course to form pupils and students' professional self-determination in the integrated system "school-vocational college". The basic approach to research this problem is an integrative one that causes efficiency of pupils and students' career guidance work in dual integrated system. The content of career guidance course "Professional Career Planning" developed and presented in this article is aimed at pupils' professional self-determination formation, consciousness and steady interest in choosing future profession. As for vocational college students, the course is directed towards the students' choice of their own individual educational and career way, revealing their adaptation abilities to future professional activity. Materials of the article are of value for school and vocational college teachers while organizing and planning career guidance work at the educational institutions.

The purpose of this article is aimed at improving the conditions for the development of the business entities strategic management in respect to the agency conflicts. The submitted article specifies a method to protect the principal's interests in decision-making under current management. The basis of the submitted work serves the application of the quality management tools in the system of strategic management, as it allows to keep a long-term orientation and considers the formation of the customer value as the basic object of management that conforms the management paradigm from the point of the principal. The article presents possible scenarios of large business entities development using the methods and mechanisms of the strategic management of a business entity with the use of the quality management tools. This article is intended for managers, executives, researchers engaged in strategic planning and development of the enterprise structures.

Рафиков Азат Миннегаязович, Сабиров Ильшат Талгатович Вклад предпринимателей-мусульман в развитие системы национального образования во второй половине XIXначале XX в.В статье анализируется деятельность предпринимателей-татар Предуралья по поддержке и развитию системы мусульманского образования в пореформенное время. Авторы прослеживают основные направления эволюции сознания представителей тюрко-мусульманских деловых кругов, отразившиеся в принадлежности к джадидистскому движению, характеризуют механизм их взаимоотношений с властью. Имеющиеся материалы позволяют говорить о том, что купечество, постепенно трансформировавшееся в буржуазию, активно участвовало в процессе социальной модернизации, охватившем татарское общество во второй половине XIXначале XX в.