Economic security as a guarantee of sustainable development for modern enterprises

This article examines economic security from the perspective of sustainable development in modern enterprises amid military challenges. It highlights the difficulties enterprises face and the challenges that hinder sustainable development. The article analyzes scholarly perspectives on the essential meaning of the conceptual categories of economic security and sustainable development. It reveals their interconnection and describes this relationship. The key components of the interconnection between economic security and sustainable development in modern enterprises include security conditions for building financial stability, timely and rapid responses to existing threats, innovative development, and preservation of resource potential. The author’s position is proposed, and the feasibility of introducing the conceptual category “economic security of enterprises during sustainable development” is substantiated, which should be understood as a state of corporate sustainability based on the key components of economic stability, environmental responsibility, social responsibility, and operational flexibility, provided that measures to ensure sustainable development are developed in the context of timely neutralization of risks and adaptability to various types of threats, with the aim of protecting production, resource, financial, and human potential from the impact of existing threats, which guarantees the achievement of strategic goals based on effective environmental safety tools and stable operation based on the principle of social justice. This approach is justified by several advantages. The paper provides a rationale for the selected segments that define the substance of the proposed conceptual category. The paper outlines directions for strengthening the economic security of modern enterprises in the context of sustainable development, taking military challenges into account. It emphasizes the advisability of implementing measures such as the adoption of innovative ideas and the broadest possible range of digitalization tools, the transition to the active implementation of energy-efficient and environmentally safe technologies, and the adaptation of the method of diversifying the activities of modern enterprises, continuous development and preservation of human capital, and the development and practical implementation of risk management adapted to modern conditions, taking into account a policy of flexible leadership.