Economic development of the enterprise: essence, classification, evaluation methods

Abstract

Uncertainty of the external environment significantly affects the development of the enterprise in the strategic perspective. That is why to ensure the effective functioning of the enterprise should take into account the possible consequences of factors of direct and indirect influence, as well as assess the internal potential of the enterprise to identify possible reserves and promising areas of development. The purpose of the article is to analyze the existing approaches to defining the concept of enterprise development, to consider the main classification features, as well as to systematize the existing approaches to assessing the development of the enterprise. The article considers the approaches of domestic and foreign scientists to the definition of enterprise development and provides an author's definition of this concept. Among the main classification features of enterprise development were the following: stability, location, scale, openness to the researcher, control over changes, the activities of the subject of development, the temporality of the length, the ability to manage, the stability of the state, the by, along the line of development, by certainty, by the nature of growth, by the nature of changes, by direction, by type of trend, by goals, complexity and scale of changes, by individuality, by direction of business structures, by life cycle stages, by objects changes, according to the subject of development. In assessing the development of the enterprise, scientists use a significant amount of indicators and their dynamics. Among the main groups were considered performance indicators, product indicators, resource indicators, operating indicators, indicators of the management system, indicators of the level of development. The article also considers a list of methods that can be used to assess the development of the enterprise. The obtained results can be used in the development of a system for assessing the level of development of the enterprise, as well as an integrated assessment of the development of the enterprise on the basis of certain groups of indicators.