The Activities on Provision of the Enterprise’s Security: Content, Principles and Methods

Abstract

Objective reasons for updating the needs of enterprise in the activities on provision of security are presented (exponential increase in the number of threats to the enterprise’s activities, their multiplied influence and serious consequences of their materialization). The contents of the activities on provision of the enterprise’s security is disclosed on the basis of interpretation of the concepts of «economic security of enterprise» and «ensuring the economic security of enterprise» in terms of the convergent and pragmatic approach. It is displayed, that the activities on provision of the enterprise’s security should be considered as a result of objectization of the system of ensuring the economic security of enterprise, which, in turn, acts as a subsystem of the first level of the enterprise’s economic security system. A cognitive map of the activities on provision of the enterprise’s security is elaborated, elements of which, taking into account the links between them, allow analytically, within limits of each of the methodological approaches of the economic security of the micro-level, to explore the conditions under which such activities should be carried out. A general scheme of the activities on provision of the enterprise’s security is provided, where each of the directions is complex as to content and participants. The principles of the activities on provision of the enterprise’s security, operationalization of which results in the methods for its implementation, are considered. A general characterization of methods of the activities on provision of the enterprise’s security is provided.

Keywords

• enterprise
• economic security
• activities on provision of security
• content
• principles
• ways
• convergent and pragmatic approach
• cognitive map