Municipal clusters: maintenance, management and improvement of economic security

The purposes of the article are to popularise clusters that combine effective business structures and insolvent enterprises, in which the former, with their resources and competencies, help the latter overcome their own insolvency; to substantiate their joint partnership activities to modernise cluster management, which contributes to overcome bankruptcy, bring such structures to the level of sustainable development; to increase their economic security. In this regard, a number of tasks have been defined: to reveal the content of the updated concept of cluster; to summarise the main directions for improving the management of clusterisation of the municipal economy; to propose ways of increasing economic security. The object of study are mainly high-income enterprises and to a much lesser extent low-in-come enterprises that are part of municipal clusters. The subject are socially secure and organisational and managerial relations between cluster members regarding assistance in overcoming insolvency of some through help of others. The research methodology assumes the unity of historical and logical methods in a mixed economy, partnership of its participants operating in conditions of municipal clusters and interconnected with other market entities. The hypothesis is that the more precisely the essence of a municipal cluster is defined, the better and safer its innovative management will become to put insolvent links on the path of sustainable development, which will increase their economic security at the same time. The results include the determination of the methodological content of the breakthrough municipal cluster, its differences from the clusters currently widely advertised and gradually spreading in the country. It is also important that innovative organisations (donors) of the cluster and their divisions actually act as mentors of bankrupt enterprises and their structural units, which are part of the general structure and jointly achieve a high level of management. The conclusion is made about improving the management of the clustering process, increasing the economic security of both its participants and the entire municipal economy, which through the ongoing processes acquires a territorial-sectoral character instead of an industry-specific one.