Lazhe M. As for the definition of the essence of economic security

Abstract

The analysis of the essence of the concept of economic security. Were analyzed main approaches to determining the safety of the authors. Analysis of recent publications Ukrainian scientists devoted to defining the essence of the concept of "economic security", indicates insufficient attention is to define the role of the enterprise management system to achieve the required level of security. Authors distinguished two approaches to determining safety. The first approach is based on using the concept of threat. The second approach, avoiding the use of the concept in the definition of security threat, based on the economic terms of achieving the goals of the enterprise. Approach to the economic security as the implementation and protection of economic interests relatively new, based on the realization and protection of the economic interests of the company. It defines the security interests of the entity from internal and external threats, as well as tools such protection. Generalization of works of different authors leads to the following conclusions. In many works over time, when describing the process of ensuring economic security as protection against threats starts with detection or prediction of threats is consistent definitions of security as protection from threats. Given the existing methods and definitions of economic security concluded ability to change the approach to economic security. You must consider the nature of economic security of the construction industry, and to identify the main criteria of evaluation.