Sustainable development of enterprises through the industrial policy implementation

Abstract

The discussion about indicators to be used to monitor the sustainable development in the Russian Federation continues, and their obligatory list has not been approved as yet. The paper explores the indicators available from official statistics, which may reflect the sustainable development of enterprises and be a component of the sustainable development assessment of a region and the state generally, and investigates the role of industrial policy in designing the exhaustive set of indicators. The concept of sustainable development constitutes the methodological basis of the paper. Using the logical analysis method to systemitise approaches to the assessment of sustainable development, the authors complement economic and ecological approaches with the complex approach, within which they develop a methodology for evaluating the level of sustainable development of an enterprise with regard to the existing statistical base. The method of a problem-oriented analysis allows proposing a mechanism for managing the sustainable development using the tools of industrial policy, which currently also embraces socio-environmental issues. The constructed set of tools may be a basis for creation of a unified system of monitoring, assessment and control of sustainable development at three levels: enterprise – national economy – global economy.