Management of Economic Security of Horticultural Enterprises in Ukraine

Abstract

The current state of economic security of horticultural enterprises in Ukraine, functioning in the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine, indicates the presence of a large number of internal and external threats that arise in the process of their financial and economic activities. Most horticultural enterprises have an insufficient level of economic security. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the algorithm of economic security management of horticultural enterprises of Ukraine. Methodology. During the study the following methods were used: analysis and synthesis (to critically comprehend the theoretical provisions of economic security); system analysis (to substantiate the economic security management system of horticultural enterprises and its subsystems); expert method (to determine the weights in the integral index of internal economic security of horticultural enterprise); methods of statistical (correlation and regression) analysis (to check the sensitivity of horticultural enterprises of Ukraine to changes in macroeconomic and other indicators); graphic and tabular methods (to visualize the results of the study). Results. The authors pay special attention to the presence of internal and external threats to the economic security of horticultural enterprises. The authors have developed a protocol for managing internal and external economic security of horticultural enterprises as a set of successive stages, which will ensure the achievement of the target level of economic security. The article substantiates the methodological approach to the assessment of internal economic security of horticultural enterprise on the basis of relative indicators, which are combined into five components. The article substantiates methodological approach to the assessment of external economic security of horticultural enterprise on the basis of four macro-indicators. Practical implications. The proposed protocol of economic security management of horticultural enterprise can be used as a technology of enterprise management to ensure its stable development. The proposed method for assessing internal and external economic security can be used by a horticultural enterprise. Value/originality. Improved the theoretical and applied bases of the study of economic security of agricultural enterprises on the example of horticultural enterprises. The methodological foundations of internal and external assessment of the economic security of enterprises were developed. The protocol of economic security management of horticultural enterprise is developed for the first time. The protocol includes interconnected and sequential stages and is adaptive to modern conditions of financial and economic activity of horticultural enterprises.