ENTERPRISE ECONOMIC SECURITY STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS AND TOOLS

Abstract

Objective. The objective of the article is to substantiate a theoretically significant approach to understanding the essence of the strategic management of the economic security of an enterprise and the choice of effective tools for assessing its effectiveness. Method. To substantiate the results of the study, a set of methods is used,: imethods of theoretical analysis and synthesis, generalization, dynamic analysis, index method, graphical method. The theoretical and methodological base of the study contains the provisions of the theory of management, strategic management, strategic analysis, financial analysis. Results. In the study, the identification of the subject and object of the economic security of the enterprise is carried out, the connection between the management of economic security and the strategic management of the enterprise and the set of the main functions of the latter are updated. Specifically, under the strategy of economic security of an enterprise, it is proposed to understand a comprehensive strategy related to strategies of a supporting type, designed to maintain the state of long-term economic security of both the entire enterprise and economic security in terms of local components (market, technical and technological, personnel, financial, etc.) . The authors’ vision of the algorithm for developing a strategy for the economic security of an enterprise is proposed. It presupposes the following sequential actions: setting the problem; team building; analysis of external and internal factors that generate threats; gradation of threats according to the level of consequences; threat impact forecast; assessment of resource potential; determination of methods, technologies and tools for implementing the economic security strategy; making a decision on a specific strategy, its financial justification; implementation of the company’s economic security strategy. In the course of a practical study, an analysis of the level of economic security of YuzhGOK JSC is made. To identify the economic security strategy of the plant for 2018-2020, a profile of economic security is compiled, the integral coefficient of economic security is calculated, and using the SPACE analysis, it has been found that the plant implements an aggressive economic security strategy, which is effective and adequate for the current business conditions. It has been established that an aggressive security strategy does not require changes, that is, strategic management should focus on the implementation of control and preventive functions that will ensure the preventive nature of strategic management and monitoring of the operating environment. Key words: strategic management, economic security, economic security strategy, strategic management of economic security, strategic management functions.