ECONOMIC SECURITY OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES: A REVIEW OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT, ITS COMPONENTS, AND THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITALIZATION

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The article provides a review of the evolution of the concept of economic security in a historical context, taking into account the key prerequisites and factors that have formed approaches and objectives of economic security at different stages of development. An analysis of contemporary interpretations of the concept of economic security, as well as its goals and objectives, is conducted. Existing approaches to the study of this complex and multifaceted concept are examined. The specificity of interpreting economic security at various levels – individual, enterprise, regional, national, international, and global – is analyzed and generalized. Particular attention is paid to the diversity of interpretations of the economic security of the enterprises; key characteristics are identified, and the objectives of enterprise economic security, especially in the agricultural sector, are summarized. Approaches to identifying the functional components of enterprise economic security are considered, including both core and narrowly specialized components. Emphasis is placed on the necessity of accounting for digitalization when analyzing the economic security of modern agricultural enterprises. The concepts of digitalization, digital economy, and information technologies are examined as powerful factors influencing the economic security of agricultural enterprises. The importance of rapid adaptation of agricultural enterprises to the development of digital technologies in order to maintain efficiency and competitiveness – which directly affects their economic security—is highlighted. Cyber threats are identified as one of the new and extremely dangerous risk factors caused by the global digitalization of economic processes. The examples of the application of digital technologies in the agricultural sector are presented, and the vulnerabilities of agricultural enterprises under conditions of digitalization are identified. The economic security of agricultural enterprises in the context of digitalization is analyzed, and the main directions for its enhancement are outlined.

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