Leading research fellow at the HSE University, VB is mainly responsible for service innovation research by supervising the project on monitoring knowledge-intensive business services in Russia, which covers such areas as company’s innovation activities, HR and CRM practices, digital technology penetration. She has published papers in such peer-reviewed journals and has participated in international projects with OECD on the assessment of higher education learning outcomes, with World Bank on financial literacy and deployment of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in financial sector, and with CFA Institute on fintech.
Research fields
1. Innovation patterns in knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS):
KIBS companies, as well as belonging to sectors that have displayed remarkable growth in the last few decades, play multifaceted roles in national innovation systems. KIBS themselves tend to be highly innovative, and can also contribute to innovation in their clients.
2. Performance of organisational units
Top managers should be aware of cost structure and revenue streams for being viable in VUCU (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) environment and designing sustainable business models.
3 Human capital and digital technology adoption
Digital skills – both technical and managerial – and new information technologies have become core assets for companies aiming at improving their performance through digital transformations that can augment their customer relations, increase labour productivity, and automate business processes.
Expertises
Publications :
- Belousova V., Yildirim C,Tensaout M., (2023) «Cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging country banks: What do acquisition premiums tell us?» International Business and Finance..
- Belousova V., Obondarenko O., Chichkanov N., ., Lebedev D, (2022) «Coping with Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Insights from Digital Business Services» Energies.
- Belousova V., Chichkanov N., Grigoriy Gashnikov, Krayushkina Z., Thurner T. (2023) «Technology-Intense Service Offerings in the Light of Economic Complexity: Establishing a Holistic Service Ecosystem» Foresight and STI Governance.. Nb pages: 10.
- Belousova V., Obondarenko O., Chichkanov N., Miles I. D. () «Coping with Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Insights from Digital Business Services» . https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oxana-Bondarenko.
Innovation patterns
Miles I. D., Belousova V., Chichkanov N. Knowledge intensive business services: innovation and occupations // Foresight. 2019. Vol. 21. No. 3. P. 377-408. doi
Miles I. D., Belousova V., Chichkanov N. Knowledge intensive business services: ambiguities and continuities // Foresight. 2018. Vol. 20. No. 1. P. 1-26. doi
Miles I. D., Belousova V., Chichkanov N. Innovation Configurations in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services // Foresight and STI Governance. 2017. Vol. 11. No. 3. P. 94-102. doi
Belousova V., Chichkanov N. Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in Russia: 2014–2015 Crisis Aftermath // Foresight and STI Governance. 2016. Vol. 10. No. 4. P. 46-58. doi
Human capital and digital technology adoption
Belousova V., Solodkov V. M., Chichkanov N., Nikiforova E. Acceptance of New Technologies by Employees in Financial Industry, in: Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Machine Learning. World Scientific, 2020. Ch. 56. P. 2053-2080
Belousova V., Chichkanov N. Why do Smartphones and Tablets Users Adopt Mobile Banking, in: Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Machine Learning. World Scientific, 2020. Ch. 71. P. 2461-2483
Belousova V., Chichkanov N. Mobile Banking in Russia: User Intention towards Adoption // Foresight and STI Governance. 2015. Vol. 9. No. 3. P. 26-39.
Performance of organisational units
Belousova V., Karminsky A. M., Myachin N., Kozyr I. Bank Ownership and Efficiency of Russian Banks // Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. 2020 doi
Belousova V., Karminsky A. M., Kozyr I. The Macroeconomic and Institutional Determinants of the Profit Efficiency Frontier for Russian Banks // Applied Econometrics. 2018. No. 49. P. 91-114.
Aleskerov F. T., Belousova V., Petrushchenko S. Models of Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis in the Efficiency Assessment of Universities // Automation and Remote Control. 2017. Vol. 78. No. 5. P. 902-923. doi
Abankina I., Aleskerov F. T., Belousova V., Gokhberg L., Kiselgof S. G., Petrushchenko S., Shvydun S., Zinkovsky K. From equality to diversity: Classifying Russian universities in a performance oriented system // Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2016. No. 103. P. 228-239. doi