Economic And Mathematical Modeling of Planning and Management Activities of Enterprises: Past and Present

Abstract

The article presents the theoretical and methodological results of modeling the economic activity of enterprises, obtained in the Laboratory of Methods and Mechanisms of Enterprise Management of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1963 to the present, and shows the meaningful logic of the development of scientific research data in their chronological sequence. Initially, research in the Laboratory began to be carried out in two directions: a) methodology for creating automated control systems in enterprises and industries; b) economic and mathematical modeling of production plans. Within the framework of the first direction, methodological materials were first developed that determine the composition of automated management systems for enterprises with a discrete nature of production. Within the second, the main one, economic and mathematical tools for making planning decisions by enterprises were developed based on complexes of multi-level models, where special attention is paid to the vertical and horizontal coordination of planning decisions using systems of economic and mathematical models. Work related to economic and mathematical modeling of planned activities at different levels of management in an enterprise continues to the present day. In the last decade, the range of research of the Laboratory has expanded, and new, urgent tasks of rationalizing the activities of domestic enterprises have been added to the traditional areas. In particular, the tasks of structural transformation of vertically connected industries; mechanisms for establishing productive inter-company cooperation ties; ways to rationalize enterprise management in the context of digital transformation; measures to activate the human capital of enterprises. The presented results allow us to assert that the Laboratory remains among the active developers of economic and mathematical models for managing domestic production enterprises.