Chernyak G. Ensuring economic security of energy enterprises

The thesis is devoted to development and improvement of theoretical and methodological provisions of ensuring the economic security of energy companies which is based on deepening the theoretical foundations of economic security of enterprises and improvement of scientific and methodical way to ensure the economic security of energy companies. Analysed current scientific and methodological approaches, models and methods of evaluation of economic security, causing revealed the existence of a significant number of developments which are related to the formation of complex techniques and activities to ensure economic security directly methodology and evaluation of its level. Systematized components of economic security and proposed to include only those indicators and components of economic security, which are reflecting the specific scope and domestic construction companies. According to the research singled out the basic stages of development and implementation of the strategy of economic security of the energy company, the algorithm and tools of the formation such a strategy. Displayed the place of the strategy of economic security in the hierarchy of company strategies. Proposed to allocate economic security strategy for energy companies depending on zone (level) of economic security. Grounded theoretical and methodological approaches to evaluation the economic security. The economic security can be represented as a function depending on the following metrics: cost per unit; factor of financial stability; the ratio of the average wage in the company to the average wage in the industry; rate of development of new technology; rate of return on assets; the proportion of new technologies in scope or complexity; percentage share of progressive equipment. By using defined parameters estimated the level of the economic security and its components. Proposed to use a process-hierarchical approach to the economic security of energy companies, which includes management of financial and economic processes based on predefined hierarchical levels of influence factors of safety, based on compliance with the proposed principles (consistency of performance security and strategic development, application of constructive solutions, adequacy of coverage areas of security, verification criteria for selecting security strategy, adaptation to change environment, goal-setting). Suggested a scientific and methodological provision of economic security strategies of energy companies by typing strategies depending on the level of economic security that includes growth strategy, selective strategy, adaptive strategy, transformation strategy, comprehensive strategy. Proposed to choice the strategy of economic security of the energy enterprises by constructing a hierarchy of choice strategy of economic security that has enabled many variations to consider the external environment and the existing level of economic security.