Conceptual framework of analyzing development of threats to a social-economic system “city"

Abstract

There is expediency of building a conceptual framework of analyzing development of threats to a social-economic system “City" justified in the article. Such conceptual framework is considered a system of axioms, principles and concepts that are used to analyze the development of threats. The mentioned system covers cognitive, hermeneutical and methodological functions of mesolevel economical security studies. Constructs of the conceptual framework of analyzing development of threats to the social-economic system “City" are the system of logical statements. Operationalization of such statements allows to define threats to the social-economical system “City”, evaluate their character, scope and sources, analyze development of threats and forecast consequences of their implementation. Constructs of the conceptual framework are built by implementation of imperatives of protective and harmonization approaches and post neoclassic ontological principles, the main of which is methodological pluralism. The content and specific features of the considered constructs as a part of the conceptual framework of analyzing development of threats to a social-economic system “City" are considered in the article. Research thesaurus is improved by specifying content of notions “threat to the social-economic system “City”, “danger”, “risk”, “economic interest”. Characteristics of considered constructs and boundaries of their employment are defined. Connection measure for the considered constructs by the possibility of negative changes in the social-economic system “City” is shown. Operationalization of considered constructs as a part of the conceptual framework of analyzing development of threats to the social-economic system “City" will allow making the necessary tools to identify processes and phenomena in the external and internal environment of the social-economic system “City” as threats to such system and to analyze any particular threat and/or sets of such a threats.