Korelsky, V. F. Fish, fishermen and fish industry in Russia / V. F. Korelsky. - Bremen : Krebs, [1993?]-.

The fact that the association consisted of different enterprises, organizations and firms (small, medium, large and their agencies) conditioned their complicated interaction in the economy of the region, where every economic subject played a definite part and ensured the continuity of a technological cycle from fishing to the output of production. Large enterprises of the Northern fish industrial basin possess the best possibilities for the organization of a large output of production, including the cases when the industry requires large capital expenditures. Their advantages are in the low expenses per unit of production, wide possibilities of mechanization and automatization of the production processes that requires considerable investments for carrying out research works. The might and leadership of large enterprises in the fish industry are based on their ability of working out and developing new kinds of production and new technologies. In future large fish industrial enterprises of the basin will satisfy, most effectively, the consumer demand in the fields of the market where essential investments will be required to ensure mass production and where powerful intellectual potential is needed for working out and mastering the production of new kinds of goods and latest technologies. The possibility of concentration of production ensures an efficient functioning of large enterprises under the conditions of the market economy. On the other hand, the output of products in large amounts will require a sufficient stability of the production program, and this may lead to a loss of flexibility on the part of an enterprise and the lowering of the possibility of quick reorganization of production processes. The basis for the activity of large enterprises, especially under conditions and antimonopolistic policy, is the already won leadership, a stable demand of the market for their production and services. They have much to lose, and, therefore, their readiness for risk is considerably restricted. So, they will eventually keep up to the practice of introducing principally new kinds of products already tried out by small enterprises by means of purchasing licenses, patents, etc. This creates favorable conditions for the lowering of expenses by developing small enterprises on the functional basis. The attempts of large enterprises at producing ready goods, maintaining the cycle of production from the primary processing of raw materials to the output of ready goods in a sufficiently large assortment, lead to the appearance within them of a mass of small industries (material and technological supply, servicing of ships by agencies, ship repairs, etc.). In their totality, as they exist now, small enterprises are hardly necessary since they require considerable expenses for managing personnel, technological re-equipment, supply by resources, i.e., for ensuring their efficient operation within the complicated organism of a large enterprise. These subdivisions not only distract the managers from resolving strategic problems of a large enterprise as a whole but also have low labor productivity and the necessity of constant control over the activity of their personnel. Large enterprises will evidently be interested in the financing and working out of projects concerning the re-equipment of the production with subsequent investments into small enterprises. The conversion of small production processes into small enterprises will not only lead to the lowering of expenses of a large enterprise, but will also free them from dudes and expenses connected 1 3 8