Lytvynenko P. International Strategies of Ukrainian Companies in the Conditions of Price Fluctuations: The Example of Enterprises of Chemical Industry.

The dissertation explores the theoretical principles of strategic management during realization of international activities by corporations in the context of modern global processes. The mechanism of forming international strategies of chemical corporations on the world market has been defined. The analysis of the market conditions has identified modern trends and basic factors of realization of international strategies by chemical corporations on the world market of mineral fertilizers. The use of economic-statistical model-based analysis has allowed to examine the market conduct of most chemical producers of nitric fertilizers of Ukraine with the purpose to expose the features of application of international strategies in the conditions of price fluctuations. The general pattern is export expansion with re-orientation of sale policy from domestic to international market.