Department of Management of Foreign Economic Activity and Tourism
The Department was founded in 2008.
The total number of staff employees: 8 employees, including: 1 professor, 6 Ph.Ds associate professors.
Head of Department
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Dr. Leonid Yatsun , Ph.D., Prof. |
Vice Head in research: | |
Mr. Viktor Seliutin, Position: Vice Head in research, Ph.D., associate professors. Contact phone office: +380 57 349 45 27 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Contact person from Faculty speaking in English: |
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Ms. Olga Budanova, Position: Assistant Professor. Contact phone office: +380 57 349 45 27 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Department short description
Scientific and research activity of the department
The basis of scientific and research activity at the Department
Scientific and research activity of the Foreign Economic Activity and Tourism Management Department is conducted according to the plan of research work of the University both State budget and self-financing contractual themes.
Priority of scientific and research activity areas.
- performance of both low cost (State budget) and self-financing scientific themes on planning and placement of commercial networks in the settlement sectors, forming the development strategy in the sphere of catering, food industry, food products, restaurant business;
- performance of both low cost (State budget) and self-financing scientific themes on the development of corporate management scheme for a firm in conditions of business diversification, improvement of management system of trade- and-entertainment centers, the development of the methods of preparation programs for the development of tourism and the concept of creating tourist and recreational areas;
- organization of the scientific and research work of masters in order to create research centers of the University;
- raising the scientific level of lecturers of the department, preparation and defense of master's and doctoral theses on improving the competitiveness of enterprises – the subjects of foreign trade activity;
- improving the quality of management of catering and tourist services, improving the management of enterprises engaged in foreign trade activities in the field of food industry.
Scientific schools at the Department
At the Department and acts now the following scientific schools were formed and are acting at present with the aim of studying the problems of socio-economic processes in the sphere of foreign trade activities of the subjects of restaurant, hotel and tourist industries:
- Scientific school “Strategic Management in Sphere of Hospitality” (Scientific supervisor – Ph.D.Prof. Leonid Yatsun).
- Scientific School “Solving of the Problems of Dynamics and Transformation of Open Economy of Ukraine” (Scientific supervisor– Ph.D. Oleksandr Ol’shansky).
All themes of the theses of the lecturers of the Department are aimed at solving the most actual problems of management, enterprise, psychology of management, quality of hospitality services, human resource management. These are closely related to the courses that are taught at the Department.
The results of scientific researches conducted within the framework of the above scientific schools are being introduced both in the educational process and in the practice of activity of enterprises of food trade and restaurant industry, engaged in foreign trade activities.
The themes of some actual scientific researches on the which the researchers of the Department are working now are:
- solving the problems of catering and increasing its efficienc;
- formation of goal-oriented programs of the social-and-economic development of territories;
- Development of the methods of preparation of the local development of the trade and catering programs;
- Development of modeling services forms of network calculation of catering and trade institutions;
- Development of projects and programs as to formation of catering and trade system for tourists and the local communities of recreation areas.
International scientific and research activity
The scientific and research staff over the past 5 years actively participated in international scientific-and-practical conferences on actual problems of improving teaching methods, specialized fairs and exhibitions, as well as in the introduction of the best practices of improving the competitiveness of enterprises - the subjects of foreign trade activity, improving the quality of services, improving the efficiency of foreign trade activities and other profile directions.
The scientific and research staff studied the possibility of participation in the European Framework Programs of the research-and-technological development of FP7 in particular (2007-2014).
The Involvement of the Department in FP8 – “Horizon 2020” (2014-2020)
Currently the Department is conducting organizational work on searching for profile consortia within working programs WP-Food 2016-2017 of the Sub-priority “Food Security”, Priority area “Societal Challenges 2”, EU Program “Horizon 2020” (2014-2020). First of all – in the field of management of foreign economic activities of Ukrainian enterprises to improve the safety and sustainable reliability of produced food products, food processing and in other relevant research areas.
Material-and-technical base of the Department
Material-and-technical base of the Department provides optimally both educational process and scientific and research activity of lecturers and students.
The Department has the necessary material-and-technical basis both for ensuring the training-and-educational process and for carrying out the planned scientific and research work for lecturers and students: lecture halls and classrooms, where lectures, seminars and workshops are held. The premises for lectures and practical classes meet the modern requirements of the educational process using modern computer equipment, specialized computer devices and software.
Basic expertises and RTD carried out by the Department for project customers
Specific profile scientific research & technology development (RTD) and industry sectoral expertises that the Department of Management of Organizations of the Faculty of Management of KSUFTT can actually performs in the case of address to him with such request possible European project consortium within the Horizon 2020 Programme:
- Applied targeted researches and industry expertises in the field of improving the quality of management in catering, improvement of enterprise management system, carrying out foreign trade activities in the field of food providing sphere.
- Development projects and programs of formation of food and trade systems for tourists and the local population of recreational areas.
- The decision of the planning and placement of commercial problems of networks in the settlements, building development strategies food service sector, food industry, food products, restaurant economy.
- Other specialized expertises on a proposal of foreign customer.
- The Department is also ready to perform part of the of project profile scientific researches and carry out scientific expertises on the topics, proposed by the coordinator of the European project consortium.
Scientific publishing activity
During the time of existence of the Department (since 2008), the researchers of the Department have published more than 250 scientific-and-methodical works. The total volume of published work is 112.8 published sheets (PS)*. Among the published works - 3 monographs of total volume of 24.7 published sheets (PS), 5 manuals of total volume of 65.2 published sheets (PS)*, 27 articles of total volume of 13 published sheets (PS), 57 scientific abstracts of total volume of 9.9 published sheets (PS). Most of the scientific works of the Department made the works, published in scientific collections of KSUFT and in collections of scientific papers of related profile universities.
*Note: «Published sheet» – conventional published sheet (PS) – unit of measurement of volume publications or separate publication, which is equal to one side of the printed sheet of format 60×90 cm. 1 PS – is conventionally equal 24 pages A4 of total volume of 40 000 characters with blanks.