E.G. Popkova is Professor of International Economics and Economic Theory at Volgograd State Technical University, Russia. Her scientific interests include economic growth, sustainable development, globalisation, the institutionalisation of social development, development planning, and strategic planning. She is a guest editor of Asian Social Science Journal (Canada), and a member of the editorial boards of International Research Journal of Marketing, Journal of Macroeconomic Dynamics Research, and International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Countries. She has published articles in a number of both Russian and international peer-reviewed journals. I.A. Morozova is Professor of International Economics and Economic Theory at Volgograd State Technical University, Russia. Her scientific interests include the development of the reputational assets of business, the corporate social responsibility of business, the formation of mechanisms of private-public partnerships, and management of human resources of modern companies.T.N. Litvinova is Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Volgograd State Agrarian University, Russia. Her scientific interests include economic growth, sustainable development, development planning, and strategic planning. She has published a number of articles in both Russian and international peer-reviewed journals.I.M. Kuzlaeva is a postgraduate student in International Economics and Economic Theory at Volgograd State Technical University, Russia. Her research interests include the problem of the realisation of the processes of economic clustering in the globalising world. She has more than twenty publications to her credit, and organised the international conference “Role of integration and clustering in provision of sustainability of economic growth”, in 2016.