CONCEPTS OF CREATION AND PURPOSE BUSINESS COMMUNITIES IN THE ECONOMIC SPACE

Abstract

In economic activities, sustainable long-term competitive advantages can be achieved by merging business entities into associations or communities. In these communities, these enterprises enter into a relationship of competition and cooperation at the same time, which allows them to maintain the coordination needed to develop specialization and the skills needed to adapt to new needs. The implementation of these processes is possible in modern business communities. The purpose of the study is to deepen the theoretical foundations, improve the methodological provisions and develop practical recommendations for defining the category of "business community", the peculiarities of creating business communities and the processes of self-regulation of their activities. This study identifies the approaches of scientists to understand the category of "association" of economic entities. A system of factors for creating self-regulatory business communities is proposed. Self-regulation is defined as a special form of coordination of production, different from centralized planning, which is characteristic of management hierarchies and market coordination, which is based on the price mechanism. By self-regulatory business communities we mean a set of organizations that enter into long-term cooperative relationships with each other, aimed at continuous improvement of products, own production and management processes, and have the ability to establish formalized rules for regulating their own activities. The classification of business communities according to the type of relationship between member companies has been formed. The necessity of typology of business communities in the form of their participants, competing and non-competing enterprises is proved. The author's interpretation of the category "business community" as a cross-sectoral association of small and medium enterprises, large businesses to protect their rights and legitimate interests related to business and business activities, effective communication with each other and with government agencies to create favorable conditions for doing business in Ukraine and abroad, providing access to the latest technologies, consulting and other professional services that are managed by their members and are not for profit.