ECONOMIC SECURITY OF THE ENTERPRISE: GENESIS AND MODERN FUNCTIONAL GOALS
The problem of ensuring the economic security arose before Ukrainian enterprises in the early 90’s. Within a short period of time, there was a rethinking of the importance of security for the functioning and development of each entity. The purpose of the study is to determine the historical stages and characterize the modern interpretation of the concept of “economic security of the enterprise” with the outline of current functional goals. To study the historical stages and characteristics of modern priorities of economic security of the enterprise used methods: induction and deduction, comparison and systematization – in the study of the essential characteristics of the concept of “economic security of the enterprise”; synthesis and analysis – definition of the main approaches to the interpretation of the concept of “economic security of the enterprise”; morphological analysis – to clarify the purpose and functional objectives of economic security of the enterprise; graphic – for a visual presentation of theoretical and methodological material; abstract-logical – for theoretical generalizations and conclusions of the study. The historical stages of changing views on the essence of the concept of “economic security of the enterprise” are considered. It is proved that the formation of modern understanding of economic security of the enterprise was not under the influence of foreign experience, but only through the influence of transformational processes in the national economy and business needs in developing a theoretical basis for the formation of protective redoubts. The current approaches to the interpretation of the concept of “economic security of the enterprise” are characterized, which are based on the focus on: ensuring the protection of the enterprise; efficiency of use of corporate resources; stability and stability of the system; coordination of interests. It was found that today the representatives of business circles pay more and more attention to solving this problem, but without proper theoretical and methodological support and due to the exclusively gained experience such actions remain ineffective. It is substantiated that the departure from responding to the impact of individual threats with a focus solely on reducing losses in favor of building a system of economic security, which allows to identify and implement a set of protective measures, allows to keep internal processes under control and adapt to environmental changes.