Kalicheva N. Theoretical and methodological principles of ensuring the competitiveness of railway transport enterprises in the conditions of business environment transformation

Object - the process of ensuring the competitiveness of railway enterprises. Goal - development of theoretical-methodological and methodical foundations and practical recommendations for ensuring the competitiveness of railway transport enterprises on the basis of the formation of dynamic competitive advantages in a transformation of the business environment. Methods - comparative analysis and a graphical method, a systematic approach, abstraction and logical analysis, morphological analysis, systematization and classification, modeling theory, expert and calculation-analytical, analogy and extrapolation. Novelty - for the first time: a concept of ensuring the competitiveness of railway enterprises in a transformation of the business environment has been developed; the theoretical foundations for ensuring the innovative convergence of railway transport enterprises have been formed; conceptual provisions for proactive quality management at railway enterprises have been developed; improved: approach to the formation and implementation of a system of competitive strategies of railway transport enterprises; organizational model of the implementation environment of the processes of innovative convergence of railway enterprises; a model for the search and implementation of reserves in the quality management system at the enterprises of the railway industry; methodological approach to assessing the quality of transport services of railway enterprises; model of intersectoral social partnership with the participation of railway enterprises; was further developed: periodization of the transformation of the competitive environment of Ukrainian railway enterprises; conceptual provisions for the management of technological development of railway enterprises; classification of quality reserves in railway enterprises; categorical apparatus of the staffing process for the development of railway transport enterprises; socially competent approach to ensuring the intellectual and personnel stability of railway transport enterprises; systematization of factors of destructive influence on the level of competitiveness of railway enterprises. Results - theoretical and methodological foundations, methodical approaches and practical recommendations for ensuring the competitiveness of railway transport enterprises have been formed. Implemented - at the enterprises of railway transport. Industry - railway transport.