Abstract. Growing market globalization, increasing global competition, more complex products results in application of new technologies, methods and business processes -due to the abovementioned tendencies novel supply chain strategies (Lean, Agile and Leagile Supply Chains) are established. In this study these supply chain concepts are being described and compared. Virtual enterprise is a temporary alliance of enterprises that come together to share their skills, core competencies, costs and resources in order to better respond to rapidly changing market environment and dynamic customer demands. Economic and social benefits and effects of virtual enterprises for customers and production companies and service providers are also described. Optimization software has been developed for optimal formation of virtual enterprise networks and is also introduced in this study. The aim of this software application is to define virtual enterprise as the optimal combination of supply chain members.

Abstract. S. Kuznets wrote that structural changes are the central element in the process of development and the most important part of the growth model. They can hinder the growth, if carried out too slowly or inefficiently, but they can also promote economic growth if the distribution of resources gets better. The article has presented the authors' attempts to present new approaches to modeling the institutional behavior of economic agents. Different approaches and views on economic growth and economic development in their application to institutional changes are considered. The descriptive method explains the hypothesis of the dominant role of social innovations (primarily institutional changes) in social and economic development. Significance of sociocultural capital in the context of contemporary knowledge economy is potentiated. The conclusion is that transition countries must use exemplary models and civilization achievements of institutional changes in developed countries.

This paper considers some of the barriers in implementing the RFID (radio frequency identification

Abstract. The article deals with a modern concept of controlling at enterprises in international business, which contains clarifications of the essence of controlling as a system and detailed consideration by its types: strategic and operational controlling, improvement of their goals, tasks, principles, functions and their relationship to other functions of management. The authors of the article explain how to choose controlling tools which are to be applied at a specific enterprise and suggest a system of controlled performance indicators of an industrial enterprise. A methodical approach to controlling of the export and import activities of enterprises is provided in the article. The authors propose the ways of using the results of controlling related to export and import activities at the enterprise in order to implement business strategies and improving the information systems existing at most industrial enterprises through the creation of the structure of controlling.

Th is paper analyzes theoretical and methodological grounds of geoeconomics as the extended arm of geopolitics and post-industrial development paradigm. Th e article selects its basic semantic components, terms and defi nitions, and explains the geoeconomic character of neoliberalism. Th e authors suggest a new term-the neoliberal geo-ideology. Th e infl uence of geoeconomics in the countries of SouthEast Europe (SEE) is demonstrated, and the destructive eff ects of neoliberalism, which serves as the offi cial economic policy in SEE are discussed. Th e conclusion verifi es the starting hypothesis noting the need for abandoning neoliberal economic policies in the SEE countries as such.