Principles of regulatory consulting

Aim. The work aimed to define the principles of regulatory consulting that can be used to analyze, evaluate, and forecast the current and future state of the economic regulatory environment.

Objectives. The work seeks to assess the dynamic and static aspects of the regulatory environment based on this analysis; define the scope of the concept of the “regulatory environment” of the economy; identify the government’s regulatory impact on entrepreneurial activity as a material carrier of the emergent property of the regulatory environment integrity; and formulate, systematize, and present a typology of regulatory consulting principles.

Methods. The study is conducted taking into account the evolutionary theory of the functioning and development of the consulting services market and its institutions. In addressing the objectives posed in this article, the methodology of the new economic paradigm, substantiated in the publications of RAS Academician S. Yu. Glazyev and his students, is significant. This methodology aims to critique neoclassical methodology and the theory of neoclassical synthesis in economic science. In the range of various methods, preference is given to the techniques of microeconomic institutional analysis.

Results. In substantiating the hypothesis of the identity of the regulatory environment and a system possessing the properties of integrity and emergence, this article presents a consulting assessment of the regulatory environment as a resource for economic growth and efficiency. Following the subject-object model, the authors define the scope of the concept of “regulatory environment” using a dichotomous division. The article results include a definition and development of the principles of regulatory consulting.

Conclusions. The regulatory environment and regulatory consulting, in the context of the transition to a new technological and global economic paradigm, is a crucial endogenous factor in economic growth in Russia. In the light of economic instability, the analysis and assessment of the formal and informal conditions of entrepreneurial activity constitute one of the key tasks for each of its participants. This article presents a regulatory concept for management consulting as a system of principles that includes long-term trends in the Russian regulatory environment during the transition to a digital economy, new industrialization, and technological paradigm change. The consulting concept of the economic regulatory environment is demonstrated as a necessary component of management consulting theory.

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