Integration Of Strategic And Anti-Crisis Management In Agricultural Processing Consumer Co-Operatives

Abstract

The modern stage of economic development is characterized with accelerating changes, increasing organizational complexity and unpredictable variability of environment. At the same time, introduction of economic sanctions and import substitution policy determine a necessity to increase activities of agricultural consumer co-operatives with the aim of providing the domestic market with domestically produced goods. Complex conditions of the external economic environment negatively influence the efficiency of operation of the agricultural processing consumer co-operatives, and also reduce their stability. These circumstances demand application of strategic management of behalf of the co-operatives, which facilitate timely and efficient managerial decision-making, as well as anti-crisis management aimed at identification and prevention of external and internal threats to the organization. The objective of the paper is to develop a model for integration of strategic and anti-crisis management of agricultural processing consumer co-operatives in order to increase their efficiency at the current stage of economic development. The paper considers the problem of optimizing the activities of agricultural processing consumer co-operatives in unfavorable environmental conditions. Justifications are given for integrating principles and elements of strategic and anti-crisis management of agricultural processing consumer co-operatives into a system of organizational, managerial and economic measures ensuring risk reduction and stable organizational functioning. Economic efficiency has been calculated for application of strategic management in integration with the principles of the anti-crisis management. The research results may find application not only in the co-operative sector of the Russian economy, but beyond it, in other agricultural processing enterprises.