%0 Journal Article %T Subcontracting principles of interaction between enterprises of different sizes at a regional level %A Eugeny Krasavin %J Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business %D 2009 %I Prague Development Center, s.r.o. %X This paper reviews peculiarities of interaction between enterprises of different sizes at a regional level in Russia on the basis of subcontracting. It defines basic conditions and organizational forms of such interaction related with circumstances of regional economic development. The paper also presents a comparison of American and Japanese subcontracting models considering possibility of borrowing certain specific features for the Russian conditions. It lists stable structures of interaction between small- and large-sized enterprises considering possibility of changing roles in integration schemes. On example of the Nizhny Novgorod region specializing in machine-building and metalworking, the most important peculiarities and perspective lines of subcontracting development in the medium run are reviewed. %K Subcontracting %K enterprises of different sizes %K small business %K subcontracting models %K regional interaction problems of sectors of different sizes %K roles of large and small enterprises in interaction %U http://academicpublishingplatforms.com/article.php?journal=PIEB&number=3&article=59