Competitiveness of small enterprises under conditions of environmental restrictions: regional aspects

Abstract

The article concerns the problem of ensuring of competitiveness of small enterprises in the presence of environmental restrictions. The main negative factors that destabilize the formation and development of small entrepreneurship are shown, including the lack of reliable social security and entrepreneur security, the instability of budget financing of federal and regional programs for supporting small enterprises, the existing environmental restrictions, etc.It is revealed that the shadow economy has a direct impact on the level of competitiveness of small business entities. It is noted that under environmental restrictions, the activity of small enterprises should be focused on the sustainable natural resource management. It is shown that one of the alternative pathways of development of areas under environmental restrictions is a "green economy". It was revealed that increasing the competitiveness of the small entrepreneurship sector should be associated with a more significant role of territorial-administrative entities in the socio-economic development of Russian society, including problems of economic protection of territories with environmental constraints.A new system of effective management of competitiveness of small enterprises at a regional level under environmental restrictions, based on the concept of the state as a regulator, is proposed.