This paper focuses on approaches to defining the concept of economic security of an enterprise. One of the conditions for the sustainable development of business entities is the existence of an effective system for ensuring their economic security, which becomes a special management object both at the macro and micro level. At present, however, most domestic enterprises still do not understand or underestimate the importance of this issue, do not possess a clear understanding of the economic security of entrepreneurial activities. This has determined the choice of the object, the statement of the purpose and objectives of this study. This paper aims to substantiate the concept of the "economic security" of entrepreneurial activities. It has been revealed that the scientific literature, as well as certain documents, has not, up to now, clearly elucidated the notion of security. The concept of "security" is widely used as a protection against the influence of any object, or, conversely, as a characteristic of the safety of any object from internal or external threats. Most authors associate this fact with the absence of a unified conceptual apparatus. The existence of a large number of interpretations of the concept of economic security predetermines the need for a thorough analysis of this concept. The results of our analysis of the category "economic security" have made it possible to define the following approaches to its interpretation: systemic, resource-functional, competitive, harmonization, and others. The analysis of different approaches to understanding the concept of "economic security" allows the systematization of all directions within the two basic ones, specifically, a philosophical approach and an organizational approach. Within a framework of the philosophical approach, economic security is a state at which protection against internal and external adverse influences is ensured. In terms of the organizational approach, security is a set of conditions created in the economic entity under which protection against internal and external threats is provided, as well as achieving the goals of its functioning. It has been concluded that ensuring the safety of entrepreneurship implies the creation of conditions under which the interests of an entrepreneur would be implemented, and the goals set by him/her would be met. Ensuring security is a managed process, which means that one can argue about building a system for ensuring the safety of entrepreneurial activities.
Dmytro M. Aniskevich (Tue,) studied this question.