Concerning Methodological Aspects of Researching Transformations in Big Business Units in Russian Agro-Industrial Complex

The article discusses issues dealing with specificity of trends observed in the process of market transformation in the Russian field of the Agro-Industrial Complex. Theoretical aspects of business unit development in the trends of holdingization (or oligopolization) in the Russian sector of the Agro-Industrial Complex were analyzed. Analysis of official statistics shows trends of sustainable advance of agricultural organizations by agricultural produce output. The author focuses at the phenomenon of such a new occurrence of business units in Russian economy as agroholdings and proposes to single out these integrated associations in a specific business entity. It is necessary, firstly, to find in the long-term prospect the optimum market niches on agricultural produce output; secondly, to maintain control over intensifying market power of big business structures and thirdly, to develop tactics on the part of state institutions aimed at attaining new national goals in the field of the Agro-Industrial Complex.