Principles, methods and tools for managing the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises

Abstract

Introduction. The problem of increasing the competitiveness is recognized as one of the most important in the theory and practice of economic science. We need an effectively functioning competitiveness management system which met modern conditions to the open economy due to limited access to foreign markets, modern requirements for food quality, low activity and efficiency of innovation, imperfect business processes and poor management, insufficiency of state support for enterpris-es. The purpose of the article is to develop and substantiate the basic principles, methods and tools for managing the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises. Method. The research uses methods of system analysis and synthesis, abstract-logical, monographic, generalization. Results. The article is devoted to the substantiation of the principles, methods and tools of the mechanism of manag-ing the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises. The architecture of the organizational and economic mechanism of man-agement of competitiveness of the agricultural enterprises is offered. Methods and tools for managing the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises by stages of management decisions are given: analysis of the market situation, the formation of al-ternative management decisions, determining criteria and limitations for choosing the best management solution, evaluation of alternatives and choosing the best management solution, organizational support and information management decision. The scheme of the competitiveness management service is substantiated. Emphasis is placed on such levers of managing the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises as monitoring and assessing the degree of compliance of the achieved intermedi-ate and final results with the goals and objectives of management, as well as encouraging staff to achieve the required prod-uct quality and minimum production costs. Based on the mechanism, the management system should ensure a close relation-ship between the competitiveness of the enterprise with demand, sales and production efficiency, as well as have a compre-hensive impact on certain objects of management at all stages of the enterprise life cycle and management levels. Key words: agricultural enterprises, mechanism, principles, methods, tools, competitiveness, management.