Operational Approaches to the Management of State Property in the

Context of Sustainable Regional Development

Irina I. Borisova

, Svetlana V. Pronina

and Valentin A. Troshin

National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, N. Novgorod, Russia

Saint Petersburg State University of Economics, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Keywords: Property, Objects of State Property, State Property Management, Property Management Function,

Management Mechanism, Property Management Processes

Abstract: The article reveals the issues of using state property objects, reveals a functional approach to assessing the

efficiency of using objects. The authors investigate the nature of property and the relationship in its disposal.

Property is a universal form of manifestation of human freedom today – the аuthors prove. The authors

characterize the management of state property, describe the instruments of economic policy in the field of

public administration, and concretize the functions of the state. The authors conclude that the management of

state property is a separate area of activity of the modern state. The authors propose elements of the state

property management system, principles of functioning of the state property management system, propose the

creation of economic legal relations between the subjects of property on a parity basis.

1 INTRODUCTION

In the legal regulation of management of state

property, there are currently complex gaps, zones of

"weak" statutory regulation. Management of state

property in Russia is dispersed among a significant

number of government bodies, which include bodies

of all branches of government: executive, legislative,

judicial, and other subjects. Attempts by numerous

government bodies to restrict access to information

about the activities of enterprises, created by each of

them, leads to the fact, that the state does not have

complete proper information about land plots, real

estate, vehicles and other property, belonging to it and

assigned to state enterprises and organizations.

The lack of regulation in the current legislation of

a number of administrative procedures in the field of

management of state property leads to its ineffective

operation and low return on assets (chaotic nature of

the assignment of property, its uncontrolled use, loss

of property). This also includes the inconsistency

between state bodies, state officials and other subjects

in the processes of ownership, use, and disposal of

state property. Thus, the problem of management of

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state property and its administrative and legal

regulation is not new, but becomes more and more

urgent in the context of total “denationalization”.

At present, much attention has been paid to the

statutory regulation of management of state property,

strategies of the concept, programs have been

developed, but in modern conditions of economic

development in the Russian Federation there are a

number of problems, that need to be solved. The

authors see one of these problems in the lack of proper

regulation of the current legislation regarding state

property objects, which leads to its ineffective

operation and low return on assets.

The traditional concept of property as a material-

commodity phenomenon is being updated today due

to the formation of new relations, regarding the

disposal of state property. The authors' new approach

to the nature of property as a form of manifestation of

human freedom in modern society determined

functional approaches to its management. Based on

the foregoing, a new scientific category is proposed -

the mechanism of management of state property,

which is a set of forms, means, methods, tools, legal,

organizational, administrative and other influences of

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Operational Approaches to the Management of State Property in the Context of Sustainable Regional Development.

DOI: 10.5220/0010589002560259

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the subject of management on the development of the

object of management - state property.

2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The article studies the problem of management of

state property and its administrative and legal

regulation, sets the task of studying functional

approaches to improving the efficiency of managing

state property objects, conducting assessment and

expert characteristics of management relations,

arising in the processes of state property ownership.

During studying the problems of state property

management, general scientific and methodological

approaches were used, in particular, a systematic

approach to the subject of research, methods of

observation, and analysis of experience (domestic and

foreign). The research materials were the regulatory

legal acts of the Russian legislation, scientific

literature.

3 RESEARCH RESULTS

From a theoretical facet, the article will be interesting

for researchers, who deal with issues of legal

regulation of the management of state property and

issues of the nature of property as a material-

commodity phenomenon of our time. A review of the

elements of the state property management system,

the principles of the state property management

system, proposals for activating the state function,

aimed at leveling the economic cycle and supporting

employment; the creation of parity in economic legal

relations between the subjects of ownership will be

able to ensure the national security of the state. The

practical significance of the article is indisputable for

managers of all levels of management of state

property, interested in obtaining high results in the

shortest possible time.

4 DISCUSSION OF RESULTS

The works of domestic and foreign scientists contain

important generalizations and conclusions regarding

the features of management of state property both in

Russia and abroad (Kryuchkova and Avdasheva,

2015; Kochetkova, 2016) Modern scientists-

economists consider the features of management of

state property objects in the processes of globalization

(Peng et al., 2016). It should be noted, that the

research carried out cannot fully cover the changes in

property relations, taking place in modern Russia,

taking into account the specifics of the formation of

the institution of private property and the

incompleteness of this process. Despite a wide range

of fundamental scientific developments, concerning

the mechanisms of management of state property,

there are many issues, that have not been sufficiently

developed by domestic and foreign scientists, as well

as controversial provisions on the choice of

management tools in this field.

Recently, there has been a tendency to revise the

traditional concepts on the nature of property as a

material-commodity phenomenon, attempts are being

made to look at this institution as the basis for the

formation of market relations, a universal form of

detecting human freedom, its state in society.

Despite the deep study of this topic by domestic

and foreign scientists and practitioners, the theory of

property cannot be considered complete.

Understanding the definition of its essence depends

on the essence of social relations, through the prism

of which "property" is considered. The development

of these relations does not allow to put a period to the

development of the theory of property. In the

scientific literature, an unambiguous definition of

state property was not developed. Some authors

understand state property as "all tangible and

intangible property at the disposal of the state"

(Bogdan; Abdallah, 2017), others refer to only a part

of the national property state property, that is

involved in economic turnover (Dementiev and

Ustyuzhanina, 2016). Civil Code of the Russian

Federation (Article 214) combines the concept of

state property and state assets, using as synonyms

(Civil Code, 1994).

Since the beginning of the 90s, such a type of

activity as management of state property, relegated to

the branch of public administration, has been

introduced into business practices, which

subsequently required the development of new

instruments of economic policy, that would meet

modern Russian socio-economic conditions, taking

into account the experience of transformations,

interests all subjects, the specifics of objects and the

environment of their functioning, as well as the

specification of the functions of the state (Butibaev

and Hamzina, 2016).

Management relations, arising in the management

of the corresponding state property, play a

supplementary role for each function, performed by

the state. In the case, when the function of the state is

realized through legal relations, arising directly in

relation to one or another object of state property, it

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can be affirmed, that the corresponding function is

performed directly in relation to state property.

In the case, when the function of the state is

realized through legal relations with respect to other

objects (for example, in the behavior of people), it

should be recognized, that a necessary condition for

the realization of each such function is the provision

of a certain state body or official with an appropriate

part of state property. In such cases, when performing

their functions, state bodies or their officials are

endowed with certain competence in the management

of state property (Pronina and Gogin, 2018). Even

when a certain official of a state body is not endowed

with managerial functions in relation to state

property, administrative legal relations in relation to

state property associated with the organization and

maintenance of the activities of such an official

necessarily arise in such a body.

By organizing their activities, the relevant state

bodies implement the functional activities of the state

in one direction or another. Thus, the management of

state property becomes a separate direction of state

activity, that is, a function of the state 1. This function

is performed by all state bodies and officials without

exception, covers the activities of the entire state as a

whole. The function is support in relation to the

implementation of all other functions of the state.

Management of state property should be considered

"as a system of economic, administrative, legal

actions of government bodies... regarding the

organization of reproduction, use and transformation

of its objects, using certain principles, forms and

methods, in order to pursue the basic social and

economic public interests of society and the state"

(Pronina and Sobinov, 2015).

M. Bogdan notes: "... the main goal of

management of any system is to ensure the

sustainable development of this system in the

interests of its constituent elements and other related

systems. With regard to state property, the general

goal of management is to ensure the preservation,

development and effective functioning and use of the

entire set of state property objects in the national

interests". Thus, the question arises of determining

the boundaries of responsibility between state

institutions regarding objects of state property.

In particular, it is noted, that in Russia there is no

clear allocation of rights and obligations regarding

state property between various institutions of the

central bodies of executive power. Almost all of these

bodies can make certain decisions in relation to

specific objects of state property.

The state property management system consists of

the following elements:

 management mechanism (goals, principles,

methods);

 functional subsystem (functions and

management bodies);

 property management processes;

 support subsystem (accounting, assessment,

staffing, performance management, etc.)

(Morozova, 2018). In terms of assessment, this

subsystem requires further development.

The subjects of the management of state and

municipal property are primarily the executive bodies

of state authority and local self-government bodies.

As objects of the management of state and municipal

property are state and municipal property.

Management actions are represented by laws, decrees

of the President, Government resolutions, programs,

plans, instructions, orders, directives.

The objects of management are state-owned

enterprises, state corporate rights in the property of

economic entities, separate individually determined

property (except for real estate), real estate (buildings,

structures, premises), land plots under state property

objects. The action of the subjects of the management

of state property on objects occurs through the use of

management mechanisms, the main ones of which are

organizational and administrative, organizational and

legal, organizational and economic, organizational

and informational.

Morozova L. A. notes, that the management

mechanism is an integral, but active part of the

management system, which influence the factors, on

the state of which the result of the managed object's

activity depends. The management mechanism is a

complex category of management with the following

elements: management goals; management criteria -

a quantitative analogue of management objectives;

management factors - elements of the management

object and their connections, which are influenced in

the interests of achieving the set goals; methods of

influencing management factors; management

resources - material and financial, social and

organizational potentials, using which the selected

management method is implemented and the

achievement of the set goal is ensured (Morozova,

2018).

The main principles of the functioning of the state

property management system include:



principle of legality;

 the principle of responsibility, which indicates

the need to ensure an appropriate level of legal

regulation, avoid gaps in the legal base, and

reduce zones of “weak regulation”;

 the principle of openness and transparency,

which provides for a combination of the state's

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obligation to ensure the opportunity for citizens

to participate in public administration, on the

one hand, and the citizens' right to obtain real

information about public administration, on the

other hand; the social principle of enforcement

of human rights and freedoms as a social

orientation of the management of state property

for the possibility of meeting public needs;

 the principle of responsibility as the

inevitability of liability for illegal actions and

inaction.

5 CONCLUSIONS

The essence of state ownership is best explained

through the functions of the state: leveling the

economic cycle and supporting employment; creation

and financing of industries to accelerate the process

of economic reproduction; creation of parity in

economic legal relations between the subjects of

ownership; ensuring national security.

In the process of managing state property, it

becomes necessary to adjust the main goals and

objectives, functions and methods of property

management (Gribanova, 2017), to create a

management mechanism (Komarinska et al., 2020),

which is understood as a set of forms, means,

methods, tools, legal, organizational, administrative

and other impacts of the subject of management on

the development of the object of management - state

property (Batchurinskaya. 2019).

The question of the efficiency of the use of state

property remains open. Foreign scientists are actively

discussing approaches to increasing the profitability

of the functioning of state property objects

(Сhereyeva et al., 2019).

From the point of view of the property owner, the

main goal is to obtain benefits from the use of the

property. However, in contrast to it, state economic

agents are focused primarily not on obtaining possible

benefit (profit), but on the implementation of social

or defense tasks (Feoktistov et al., 2016). In this case,

the issue of the methodological justification of

assessing the efficiency of the use of state property

remains unsolved.

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