HISTORICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATION OF THE CONCEPT «ECONOMIC SECURITY OF THE ENTERPRISE»
Authors:   Private enterprise «Troyanda-Zachid», Ravlinko Zoryana 
Published: June 2023

The issue of ensuring economic security is acute in the conditions of every Ukrainian enterprise, which is caused both by the difficulty of applying the acquired experience due to rapid changes in the conditions of conducting economic activity, and by the insufficient level of theoretical developments. The generalization made it possible to identify and characterize the main stages in the change of business attitude to the essence of economic security. It was found that today's stage is characterized by an understanding of the importance of security activities as the basis of business functioning and development. It was determined that there is also a transformation of the principles of business organization, where the functions of security subjects are not limited to the physical protection of property, but are tangential to the solution of absolutely all problems that arise in the internal and external environment of the enterprise. The purpose of the study was to identify the main stages in the change of views on the essence of the concept of "economic security of the enterprise" with the characteristics of modern approaches and justification of the author's position. In order to find out the parameters of the historical and evolutionary transformation of the concept of "economic security of the enterprise", the following methods were used: induction and deduction, comparison and systematization – in the study of the essential characteristics of the term "economic security of the enterprise"; synthesis and analysis – to characterize the stages in the change of views regarding the priority tasks of the economic security of the enterprise; morphological analysis – for consideration of the content of key approaches in the interpretation of the concept of "economic security of the enterprise" and justification of the autoharp’s position; graphic – for visual presentation of theoretical and methodical material; abstract-logical – for theoretical generalizations and research conclusions. It was found that at least six approaches to understanding the concept of "economic security of an enterprise" exist and have practical application at the same time. Critical consideration of the main approaches ("protection against internal and external threats for the stable functioning of the enterprise", "harmonization of interests, in particular internal and external subjects in order to avoid changes in the level of security of the enterprise", "maintaining the stability of the functioning of the enterprise", "promoting stable development through countermeasures threats", "effective use of corporate resources for the implementation of protective measures by security entities", "activity in ensuring favorable development conditions through the use of a wide range of available tools") allowed to justify the author's position, which modernizes the understanding of economic security of the enterprise and is the basis for further progress in improving methodological principles of security activities at the micro level.