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The article is aimed at analyzing the methodologies of flexible management of enterprise and the economic security system. It is defined that the methodology of Scrum is used most often in the practical activities of enterprises when implementing agile production. Features of the integrated method of Nonaka-Takeuchi, methodology of Scrum, Spotify model, as well as methodologies of agile software development in the construction and operation of agile organizations are described. It is defined that the application of flexible management in the practical activities of enterprises allows to quickly develop and make managerial decisions, including in the sphere of ensuring the economic security. The main obstacles to the implementation of the methodology of flexible management in the modern practice of operating enterprises have been allocated. At the same time, from the position of efficient functioning of the economic security system of enterprise and minimizing the intra-organizational tension, a flexible approach to solving the problematic aspects of the operation of the above-mentioned system represents a key to its successful activity.

The article is aimed at developing proposals to improve the information component of the economic security of foreign economic activities of domestic enterprises in the context of implementation of the post-customs audit. It is specified that the post-customs audit is a form of customs control. It is defined that the purpose of the post-customs audit is to simplify customs procedures and improve the interaction of national actors of foreign economic activities with regulatory bodies. The basic principles of customs administration, which should be followed by the countries of the world, according to the World Customs Organization and the World Trade Organization, are provided. The main standards of the Kyoto Convention, which are directly related to the post-customs audit, are considered. Proposals are formed to improve the information component of the economic security of foreign economic activities of domestic enterprises in the context of their interaction with customs authorities.

The article is aimed at researching the process of formation of elements of the mechanism for ensuring the economic security of investment activity of an industrial enterprise. The structure of elements of the mechanism for implementation of strategic directions of the enterprise management within terms of formation of a complex strategy of economic security of enterprise is analyzed. The stages of formation and implementation of managerial decisions in the sphere of economic security in general and security of investment activity in particular are considered. The importance of strategic decision-making on attraction of investment resources taking into view risk factors of investment activity is specified. The necessity of the process of monitoring the achievement of strategic goals, as well as analyzing the efficiency of strategic decisions in the economic security of investment activities is determined. The necessity for creating a system of motivation of subjects directly participating in the formation, start-up and operation of the researched organizational mechanism is substantiated in view of differentiations of the potential expectations of the owners of business and enterprises’ staff.

The article analyzes the existing approaches to interpretation of the category of «globalization». The ambiguous attitude to globalization in the scientific sphere is defined, because together with positive elements of «erasing» of borders and deepening of economic relations there is a significant number of threats both for individual countries and for separate economic entities. The rating of Ukraine according to the index of the globalization level (KOF) is presented, which includes the components that measure the economic, social and political aspects of globalization, and dynamics of the change of this index for 2017–2018 are provided. The definitions of national security are detailed and the peculiarities of the influence of globalization on the national economic security are defined. A number of measures have been proposed to minimize the impact of globalization on the national economic security, among which: import substitution, support of own producers, and preservation of the intellectual potential of the nation.

The article examines the peculiarities of influence of operating environment an enterprise on business processes. Considerable attention is paid to negative influence of external environment, in particular, seven factors in the process of growth of inertia are highlighted, namely: 1) fierce competition; 2) limited resources; 3) complexity and high cost of logistics operations; 4) institutional restrictions; 5) destabilization of financial system; 6) change of standards and norms; 7) reduction of target markets. The factors of negative influence of internal environment are singled out as a set of manifestations of economic security destabilization in order of increasing inertia, which are 1) ineffectiveness of research work at an enterprise; 2) problems of responsibility areas distribution; 3) problems of managing operational processes; 4) low efficiency of marketing system; 5) insufficient financial support; 6) absence of effective control system; 7) conflicts; 8) workers' opportunistic behaviour. The article assesses the deterioration of an enterprise business process, taking into account the listed factors of negative impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The realities of today and the active phase of the war determine the search for new ways to form the economic potential of Ukraine, considering direct and indirect losses that have arisen as a result of military operations, which determines the relevance of the research topic. Accordingly, the purpose of the study was to analyse the factors of destabilising influence on the economic security of regions and develop ways to restore their socio-economic potential. Special attention in the course of the study was paid to the assessment of losses as a result of military operations and other processes that accompany the functioning of regions in conditions of extreme aggravation of threats. A model for assessing the negative consequences of the impact of temporary emigration, mobilisation, and internal displacement of the population on the socio-economic security of the region is developed. Within the framework of the model, the state of losses was determined depending on the ratio of the main components of temporary emigration, which include: departure from Ukraine and return, the level of job vacancies, and the demand for jobs of medical workers. The main conditions of losses from mobilisation and temporary migration of the population are also determined. It was proved that the implementation of regional rehabilitation programmes will reduce the amount of losses and ensure the growth of the socio-economic potential of the regions in the medium term, including by improving the regulatory support for financing such processes. This will allow getting a substantial social, economic, security, and legal effect. At the same time, an absolutely new field was being formed for further research on the implementation of security mechanisms at the macro, meso, and micro levels in the conditions of war and post-war reconstruction of territories. The results of the study can be used by state institutions and investment funds interested in reconstructing the socio-economic potential of Ukraine and creating safe, favourable conditions for its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is aimed at analyzing the foreign economic activities of the domestic economic entities and studying the main tendencies in the foreign trade of Ukraine. The current status and tendencies in the foreign economic activity of Ukraine, in particular foreign trade, has been examined. The dynamics of exports-imports of goods and services within the period of 2012-2016 was analyzed. The structure of trade in goods and services during the analyzed period was researched. The article defines how the change in the foreign trade vector impacts its volumes and structure. The main countries-partners of Ukraine in the exports and imports of goods and services have been represented, and the changes in the geographical structure of foreign trade during the period of 2012-2016 have been analyzed. The main external and internal environmental factors that have a negative impact on the implementation of foreign trade by domestic enterprises have been defined.

The article analyzes the existing approaches to the normative treatment of the category of «food security». An author’s own definition of the concept of «food security» has been proposed, which must be understood as the status of provision to society foods of adequate quality and sufficient quantity. An author’s own approach as to the feasibility of applying qualitative parameters for food security assessment and a critical attitude to quantitative indicators has been formulated. The Food security index and the Ukrainian rating for 2012-2016 with emphasizing the negative tendencies and developments have been provided. The article also provides a detailed characterization of the main indicators of Ukraine’s food security in 2016 by the three directions, which are: financial accessibility of foods; physical accessibility of foods; food quality and safety. Strengths and weaknesses of Ukraine’s food security and the main threats to food security were determined, the main prospects were allocated.

The article offers the authors’ approach to identification of types of adaptation of the system of enterprise economic security to negative influence of subjects of tax regulation. It determines composition of these subjects and, separately, regulation subjects that form fundamental grounds of the tax sphere and subjects of effective influence, which directly interact with entrepreneurial structures and realise tax regulation of their activity in practice. As regards direct adaptation of the system of enterprise economic security, the article offers to mark out its individual types with respect to the set goal, essence of changes in the system of economic security, degree of its manageability and nature of accumulated changes. Moreover, the article offers a list of catalysts and inhibitors of adaptation of the system of enterprise economic security to impact of subjects of tax regulation. It also marks out adaptation parameters of the system of enterprise economic security to the impact of subjects of tax regulation and provides their gradations.

The article proposes a model of a probabilistic neural network in order to ensure a sufficient level of economic security through the introduction of agile enterprise management system. It is built on the basis of statistical classifiers highlighting the degree of threats to economic security of enterprise. An input matrix for a probabilistic neural network was developed and a target matrix of classes (states) was formed. A probabilistic neural network was built in the environment using the built-in Matlab-function «newpnn», based on the proposed matrices. A list of management decisions that is a response to determined degree of threat was identified for each degree of threat to economic security. Detailing of management decisions in terms of individual components allows managers to understand the response to the current threat from the standpoint of effective management. Also, availability of alternatives expands opportunities for managers to improve existing management system in various directions. Implementation of management decisions using a neural network can reduce the degree of threats to economic security of enterprise. The article forms a target matrix of lists of actions of company's management and a crucial probabilistic neural network is built in Matlab environment. The implementation of the proposed approach is tested on the example of a particular enterprise, which indicates its suitability for practical use and solution of applied practical problems. Accordingly, the proposals developed in the study on the use of neural network allow a management of enterprise to respond quickly to current threats and risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this article is studying features of strategic management of the interaction of state institutions and enterprises from the position of finding compromise solutions, and the appropriate tools that allow ensuring a balance of interests of society and business in the implementation of foreign economic activity. The methodological basis of the study is game theory, since it is the most acceptable tool used if there is a conflict of interests of the parties. Moreover, the parties to such a conflict often make strategic decisions without knowing about the decisions of their opponents, which we observe in modern business. The game model of interaction between FEA participants and state institutions, developed in the main part of the study, is presented in the form of a non-coalition game. It has been established that the practical implementation of the found combined situation (solution of the game) fully relies on state institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the presented research is a strategic choice and assessment of the markets both from the point of view of the potential benefit for the enterprise - subject of foreign economic activity (FEA) from actions in such a market, and from the position of activity safety. To assess each parameter of market choice for the enterprise-subject of FEA, the necessary tools have been developed. Estimation of the market fundamental availability is carried out on the basis of identification of certain possible barriers on it using the developed analytical additive multiplicative function. The market safety assessment is based on the influence of micro and macro factors, developed by an additive multiplicative function, a certain significance and an ordinal descriptive scale for each of the factors. Market profitability is estimated basing on the developed analytical indicators. The proposed approach to the market choice for the enterprise - the subject of foreign economic activity and behavior in such markets allows to determine the security of certain external local markets for the direct enterprise activity, and provides enterprise management information to make sound management decisions in the field of foreign economic activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The basis of management processes at macro and micro levels is the adoption of balanced management decisions. Considering the high turbulence of the business environment and a significant number of threats, we can say that a mandatory requirement is to take into account their impact on the security of individual entities. Traditional approaches to forecasting socio-economic phenomena and processes do not always justify themselves due to their inertness. Therefore, the study proposes to use the postulates of evolutionary economics in order to better understand the existing phenomena and processes of interaction between state institutions and business entities. A scenario forecasting model for the influence of state institutions on the ecological niche of business entities is also developed. If relevant empirical data is available, it allows not only analyzing the behavior scenarios of individual entities within certain ecological niches, but also making forecasts of the certain scenarios implementation. This is an extremely effective tool for enterprise management from the position of making managerial decisions aimed at ensuring economic security and strategic development of relevant business entities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Foreign economic activity is one of the global opportunities for the development of industrial enterprises in most countries of the world. At the same time, enterprise management faces the problem of improving the quality of management processes in this particular area as a result of the growing number of threats and risks that are difficult to predict and which significantly affect the economic security of such entities. Improving the quality of managing interactions with potential foreign partners provides for their weighted selection based on minimizing risks, which necessitates the use of high-quality management tools. The study developed and tested an economic mathematical model for optimizing the interaction of industrial enterprises with potential partners based on risk minimization. This model allows to make high-quality strategic decisions in the field of foreign economic activity while ensuring the development of the enterprise by establishing mutually beneficial relations with foreign partners with a minimum risk level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quality of interaction between enterprises and institutional agents in most world countries stipulates the conditions to ease doing business. For entities engaged in foreign trade operations one of the main subjects of such interaction is customs. It is customs that control the movement of goods through the country customs border, perform part of the state fiscal functions and directly affect the economic security of enterprises-subjects of foreign economic activity. The study formed a model of the customs influence on the enterprise economic security system based on the use of the game theory. For two participants of the game -- customs and enterprise -- the indicators that determine the strategy of the participant in the game and its behavior in such a game are proposed. It has been empirically proven that the customs does not use the optimal strategy when interacting with business entities, causing a negative impact both on individual subjects and on the results of customs activities. This situation adversely affects the enterprise economic security and makes them adapt to the existing realities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The adoption of high-quality and balanced decisions in the field of cost management requires appropriate information and analytical support, and the possibility of prompt calculation of alternative variants with reference to predicted results. It was proposed to use the means of economic mathematical modeling to solve the problem of forming tools to improve information analytical support for the cost management, namely, the discrete multi-criteria optimization method with the subsequent development of an optimization model comprising information analytical support for cost management. In the process of developing the model, it was taken into account that from a formal point of view the configuration regardinginformation analytical support for cost management is optimized, and this implies an increase in the speed and quality of management decision-making with a sufficient level of reliability (validity) and minimization of costs. Accordingly, in order to build an optimality criterion, two minimization problems are solved in the corresponding optimization model, both of which comprises information and analytical support for cost management. As a result regarding application of the model, the optimal configuration of information analytical support for cost management is formed, which allows optimizing costs and improving the quality of management decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Optimization of the business entities interaction with foreign partners when entering new foreign markets is the key to the successful development of their foreign economic activity and provides the enterprises with additional benefits from expansion of the spheres of activity and potential markets. Game theory is an effective tool for modeling interaction scenarios between enterprises and their potential partners, based on the consent or refusal of each partner to cooperate. The approach proposed in this article allows optimizing interaction processes by compensating losses to economic entities and maximizing the benefit as a result of a non-cooperative game use while simulating their interaction scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]