Monitoring of the economic security of trading enterprises in conditions of cooperation with international business

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the study of the development of a system of strategic monitoring of the economic security of trade enterprises in Ukraine and abroad. The paper presents the results of the analysis of threat monitoring systems in the following countries: Switzerland, Greece, the United States of America, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Iran. The purpose of the work is to study the peculiarities of ensuring the economic security of trade enterprises in the conditions of conducting international business. Risks and threats to Ukraine's trade arising from European integration processes are analyzed and grouped. Among the most significant risks and threats, the following are identified: the need to change legislation in the areas of competition, internal market regulation, environmental safety, lack of funds and specialists to harmonize legislation with EU norms, the presence of asymmetry in the liberalization of the services market and the terms of trade in agricultural goods. Measures are proposed to neutralize risks and threats arising from European integration processes, the most important of which are: optimizing the structure of trade in the direction of increasing the export of goods with a high share of added value, and eliminating the asymmetry that has developed in the agreement between Ukraine and the founding countries, identifying and get the maximum benefit from participation in already existing associations (WTO, etc.), development of export potential through the expansion of production of high-tech goods and implementation of import substitution policy.The presence of factors that contain threats and risks to the activity of a trade enterprise, actualizes the issue of creating a monitoring system for the purpose of early warning of danger, and the use of necessary protection and countermeasures. The process of managing the economic security of trade enterprises is modeled. The stages of monitoring threats to the economic security of the trade enterprise have been developed, where the subjects of the process and information sources involved in the process of identifying risk factors and threats are defined, which makes it possible to form the necessary options for management decisions.