FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF KEMEROVO CENTER OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES

The problems of formation and development of Kemerovo center of International Association for Institutional Studies are pointed out in the paper. Kemerovo center of International Association for Institutional Studies is the base for the research school of institutional regionalistics. The specificity of the scientific approachwhich deals with complex analysis of institutional systems that are formed in the post-soviet economy of Russia is highlighted. The main scientific achievements of the team members are pointed out in the paper. Some researches, conducted by the members of the scientific school, were supported by 18 grants of various foundations. Amid them are the following: 5 grants from Russian Foundation for Humanities, 4 grants from Russian Foundation for Basic Research, 1 grant from Targeted Federal Programme. The most significant scientific results were reported in the leading Russian journals: «Voprosy Economiki», «Social Sciences and Modernity», «Sociological Studies», «Terra Economicus», «Man and Labor», and others. Some theoretical conceptselaborated by the members of research team, are the reason of great scientific interest of journals and readers, namely: deformalization of business and authorities interplay, political-bureaucratic market, social capital in business and authorities interplay, quasi developmental institutions, quasi public-private partnership, political resources of a firm. Within the International Association for Institutional Studies, theresearchteam maintains firm scientific links with researchers from Moscow State University, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Donetsk National Technical University (Ukraine), South Federal University, Siberian Federal University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Tomsk State University, Omsk State University, Altai State Technical University.