Popova O. The methodological basis for maintenance of an ecological orientation of economic agents' development

The object of study - environmental and economic development processes of economic entities. The aim of study - formation of the methodological principles and justification of scientific-methodological and practical recommendations for environmental focus of economic entities ensuring. Methods of study - methods of statistical analysis, logical and theoretical generalization, dialectics, logic, systematical and historico-economic analysis, abstraction, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, institutional analysis, system-target method, method of hierarchy analysis, methods of financial mathematics, factor analysis, correlation-regression method, method of sampling. The practical significance of results lays in the fact that the developed in dissertation theoretical and methodological positions are already brought up to the level of practical recommendations which are focused on the process of efficiency of business entities improving through the introduction of proposed instruments to ensure its environmental directivity. Scientific novelty of results lays in the fact that concept of environmental orientation of business entities was first formulated; scientific and methodical approach to the quantification of consumer behavior greening was formed; ecological-economic quality of economic decisions was assessed; environmental status of the entity became reasonable. Structure of analytical-information support of environmental orientation was improved; scientific and methodical approach to "lost" product evaluating; scientific and methodical approach to the formation of environmental portfolio; mechanism of economic and environmental assessments of the economic activity integrating; scientific and methodical approach to financial support of environmental programs development planning; ecological and economic cooperation between business entities justification. The further development have got: evaluation of approaches to the use of natural resources and environmental protection; the conceptual apparatus to clarify the meaning of the concept "ecological orientation of development" as the characteristics of qualitative and quantitative changes in the economic activities of individual subjects; content and function of natural, artificial and social capital; the typology of the processes of business entities development in dependence of the ratio of environmental and economic performance.