The article is devoted to ensuring enterprises’ economic security in the context of an unstable external environment. The purpose of the article is to develop an institutional mechanism for ensuring the economic security of enterprises. The study examines the key aspects of ensuring enterprises’ economic security under highly dynamic external changes. It is determined that economic security is a multifaceted system encompassing financial, informational, human resource, technological, legal, environmental, market, and investment components of enterprise operations. These components’ interaction and role in ensuring enterprises’ stability, competitiveness, and protection are analyzed. The study substantiates the importance of financial security as the foundation for sustainable enterprise development, which ensures the balance of income and expenses, effective capital management, and minimization of financial risks. The importance of information security is highlighted, focusing on protecting commercial information, monitoring cyber threats, and maintaining data confidentiality. The significance of human resource security is emphasized, including the development of human capital, enhancement of employee motivation, and minimization of internal conflicts. Technological security is analyzed as a factor ensuring the modernization of production processes, protection of intellectual property, and implementation of innovative technologies. Legal security is a tool for avoiding legal risks and ensuring compliance with legislative requirements. The essence of environmental security is revealed in transitioning to sustainable development, mainly through implementing energy-efficient solutions and reducing environmental impact. The article proposes an institutional mechanism for ensuring the economic security of enterprises, which is based on integrating and harmonizing regulatory, organizational, resource, and market components of institutional support. It is determined that the regulatory component ensures legal stability, the organizational component establishes effective management structures, the resource component optimizes resource management, and the market component enhances competitiveness and adaptation to market changes. The comprehensive approach involves the interaction of institutional components with the key aspects of economic security: financial, informational, environmental, human resource, legal, technological, investment, and market components. The proposed mechanism enables enterprises to minimize risks, adapt to external challenges, leverage new growth opportunities, and ensure sustainable development in the long term. Keywords: economic security of enterprises, mechanism for ensuring economic security, institutional components, institutional mechanism, risks, threats.

The article examines the organizational principles of forming strategies to increase the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises. The algorithm for choosing the basic strategy depending on the life cycle of the object in the market is analyzed. The classification of competitive strategies is proposed, the implementation of which involves the differentiation of strategies to ensure competitive relations, strategies for the formation of competitive advantages and strategies for competitive behavior, diversified in the study on the level of innovation maturity and levels of mechanisms. Alternative options for choosing competitive strategies based on a combination of market and production strategies are proposed, the key points of which are: strengthening market positions, maintaining market positions, entering a new market, innovative production development, extensive production development, production reduction. The choice and justification of strategies are proposed to be carried out according to the criteria of strategic alternatives selection, classified by types of basic strategies (survival, stabilization, growth). It is established that in addition to the life cycle stage, the choice of overall strategy is influenced by internal factors that characterize the current business situation based on the calculation of economic indicators, and identify weaknesses that can be minimized or destroyed by timely strategic decisions. It is emphasized that the strategic portfolio of the agricultural enterprise to ensure long-term competitive advantage will include a basic overall corporate strategy, chosen on the basis of competitive behavior strategy and detailing its functional strategies in the organization of production processes, marketing, investment financing, personnel management and others. In a market economy, the strategy of competitiveness is associated with all other major activities of the organization: marketing, financial activities, human resources, and others. In addition, the production strategy is interdependent with many factors of the external environment of the organization. Thus, the level of production significantly affects the competitive position of the firm, and market factors, in turn, affect the content and characteristics of production strategies. Keywords: competitiveness, competitive strategies, strategies to increase competitiveness, agricultural enterprises

The article analyses the criteria for ensuring data reliability in analytical activities, particularly in economic research, based on a large amount of data that requires careful analysis and processing. The study uses an integrated approach to identify the degree of interrelationships between variables and their dependencies and identify hidden influence factors. The article describes the need to use methods of correlation, regression factor analysis, verification, unification, and analysis of possible deviations of calculations to ensure the objectivity and reliability of economic indicators. The main criteria for ensuring data reliability are defined. It is established that applying an integrated methodological approach allows for obtaining reliable and accurate economic research results, contributing to adopting effective management decisions. It is noted that research requires the development of a systematic approach to ensuring data reliability. It includes three areas: statistical methods of quantitative analysis of cause-and-effect relationships, the objectivity of economic indicators, and criteria for the reliability of indicators of the information field of research. The proposed methods aim to obtain reasonable and balanced results, which is critical for making effective decisions in the digitalization of the economy. Modern methods for detecting, evaluating, and correcting errors in data can significantly improve the reliability of economic conclusions and recommendations. In the digital economy, the development and implementation of cutting-edge technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, play a pivotal role in ensuring higher data quality. This underscores the relevance of the research. Further studies could be directed toward developing and enhancing methodological approaches to data analysis, including exploring new statistical methods and algorithms for processing big data. Additionally, research on integrating different analysis methods to study complex economic processes and forecast future trends holds promise. Keywords: data reliability, analytical activity, economic research, objectivity of economic indicators, evaluation criteria, information field.

It has been established that the agro-food complex occupies a prominent place in the economy of Ukraine. Here, the number of employees (excluding resources, technological services and trade in food products) is 13.9% of the total. 80% of the country’s food needs are formed through its own production. In the commodity structure of national exports, agri-food products account for almost a quarter of the volume (24.3%). A rating list of fuels with the highest priority for individual components of the agri-food complex has been determined. For agriculture, forestry and fisheries, these are diesel fuel and gasoline (84.2% of total amount of fuel). For food production, it is gaseous fuel (natural gas, propane and liquefied butane), the share of which is 76.0%. It has been proved that economic and energy security should be considered as factors of external and internal environment of the agro-food complex. This determines the feasibility of two strategies for the formation of energy security: energy independence strategy and energy saving strategy. Given the overproduction of sugar beets and sugar in Ukraine and the unfavourable market situation on the world markets, it is appropriate to process their surplus into bioethanol and biogas. Since energy saving is a top priority for sugar companies, production of their own biogas will diversify energy sources and optimize energy consumption. Calculations of two versions of design indicators of a biogas plant at a sugar plant have been made (the first one concerns processing of 400 thousand tons of sugar beets annually, the second one has to do with 500 thousand tons). The project analysis has showed that the biogas plant can increase profits 5 times (per 1 ton of processed sugar beets) by producing biogas and converting it into electricity.

The article presents the main directions of advance in information support for business management in the context of formation of the digital economy. The essence of information processes and their role in business management has been clarified. There have been specified trends in information support for business management: increase in data volumes; application of artificial intelligence for analytical work in business; development of analytical tools and platforms; creation of personalized offers and recommendations for loyal consumers by means of information systems; development and implementation of products and services to ensure data security; rise in remote work and virtual offices in business. On the basis of the carried out research, the relevant issues of advance in information support for business management which require solutions have been identified. Methodical approaches to solving these problematic issues have been proposed.

The article describes theoretical and methodological principles of logistic management of energy flows. It is appropriate to consider the energy flow as a set of energy resources circulating in the logistics system, as well as between the logistics system and its external environment in order to provide energy for logistics processes. A part of the energy flow is a component of the material flow. This applies, in particular, to energy resources that have a liquid, solid and gaseous material substance. Dimensionality of the energy flow can be expressed as the ratio of the amount of energy (in conventional units of fuel) to the unit of measurement of time (hour, day, month, quarter, year). The energy flow turns into a stock of energy resources if it is considered during the implementation of logistics operations at a certain point in time (except for electricity, which is quite difficult to accumulate in many types of economic activity). It has been established that the energy flow goes through the following stages: procurement stage, storage stage and use (transformation) stage. Approaches to calculating the amount of energy flow at the specified stages and the total amount of energy flow have been reasoned. The logistics management of energy flows should be understood as the process of strategizing, planning and controlling the flow of energy resources from the supplier to the business entity (as a logistics system), as well as in the intra-production logistics subsystem during energy use. The matrix of the logistic management system of energy flows in the process of energy supply (energy generation) and energy consumption has been developed. It is appropriate to consider the task of optimizing energy flows as minimization of the total logistics costs of business entities and territorial communities in the process of energy supply and energy use.