Published at : 04 Apr 2023
Volume : IJtech
Vol 14, No 2 (2023)
DOI : https://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v14i2.5662
Andrey Vysikantsev | Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), Moscow, Volokolamskoe highway 4, 125993, Russian Federation |
Altynbek Kambarov | Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), Moscow, Volokolamskoe highway 4, 125993, Russian Federation |
Sergey Novikov | Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), Moscow, Volokolamskoe highway 4, 125993, Russian Federation |
The article reviewed the range of current problems in the
field of economic security in aviation enterprises. The methodological basis of
the research conducted in the article is based on the provisions of the theory
of crisis management organization, transport production efficiency, the theory
of hierarchy of systems, methods, and techniques of system analysis of economic
and management problems, legal and regulatory materials of federal bodies of
the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. The information base of
the study is built on the use of statistical and industry reporting data. The
relevance of the topic chosen for the study is confirmed by the factor that in
the context of increasing integration between Russian aviation enterprises, as
well as within the boundaries of the organization of interstate cooperation on
key innovative aircraft projects, the development of emerging links between
aviation enterprises contains significant risks that may have a certain impact
on the economic security of enterprises in general and the practical
implementation of projects in the field of aviation engineering in particular. The
author's view on solving the problem in the field of security management
organization is to present it in the framework of an integrated system of
production risk management of aviation enterprises. The substantiation of the
place and role of risk management system in the procedure of organizing and
ensuring economic security, as well as the effective development of the
aviation enterprise considering the specific features of the multi-component
risk management system present in the enterprises of the aviation sector, is
given. The solution to the problem in the sphere of ensuring economic security
at the internal level of the enterprise has a high priority since, at present
many methodological aspects of this process are not fully studied.
Aviation enterprises; Economics of airlines; Enterprise development strategy; Innovative aspects of security; Management of innovative projects; Socio-economic security; Synergistic economics
The indicators of quality and efficiency of the machine-building industry enterprises are the main factors showing the stability of development and the country's economic and production independence. The assessment of the state of economic security of industrial enterprises (including aviation enterprises) operating in a turbulent industrial and economic environment is a strategic task of great importance. Geopolitical risks, digitalization, and stagnation of many European economies significantly impact the development process of modern relations/communications. Therefore, there is a need for a certain rethinking of the content of economic security for knowledge-intensive enterprises. Thus, the task of monitoring the current level of economic security of enterprises, as well as the development of management decisions by the leadership and management of enterprises, should fully contribute to achieving the required degree of security under conditions of risk and uncertainty, is very important. Russian aviation enterprise was chosen as an object of the study: Lukhovitsy Aviation Plant (LAP), named after P. A. Voronin. As the object of the study, Russian aviation enterprises were chosen: Voronin Aviation Plant - the branch of JSC «RAC «MiG»; Smolensk Aviation Plant; Khrunichev Space Center (part of ROSCOSMOS State Corporation). The subject of the study is the analysis and assessment of organizational and economic relations that arise in the application process by enterprises of various management tools to achieve the indicators of economic security indicated in their development programs.
In the studies of scientists dealing with the problems
of managing economic activity particularly in the field of ensuring economic
security, the need for timely identification of threats and risks, as well as
the use of modern methods of assessment, forecasting development trends,
modeling interests, and mechanisms for ensuring economic security is noted. The
solution of this problem will make it possible to form enterprise management
systems on a fundamentally new basis, with considering the provision of
sustainable financial and economic development and the protection of economic
interests and property rights. In this regard, the problem of economic security
of an industrial enterprise is of particular relevance. Insufficient
theoretical and methodological knowledge of the problem of economic security of
an enterprise and the need to take into account the conditions for the
transition of the economy to the market-determined the choice of the topic of
the study conducted in the article.
In
order to achieve the goal, the author used methods of theoretical and practical
research, which allowed formulation of the main objectives:
· to conduct a study of
the theoretical aspects of the organization and economic security for aviation
enterprises;
· to identify key
industry-specific features and existing problems in the development of aviation
industrial enterprises;
· to determine the
semantic emphases in the management of economic security within the framework
of the production risk management system (RMS);
The
development of market relations, changes in forms of ownership, and changes in
the psychology and motivational aspects of labor determine the need to consider
new prerequisites for organizing management and ensuring sustainable
development of industrial and economic activity. A special role among them is
played by issues related to the maintenance of an appropriate level of security
of economic entities as a necessary condition for maintaining the already
achieved pace of development, as well as the stable operation of the national
economy and its key industries. Recently, there has been increasing attention
in the economic sphere towards analyzing real and potential threats, which has
necessitated the development of a methodological concept for the safe operation
of the national economy through the implementation of appropriate mechanisms.
One of the important areas of this concept is the possibility of timely
assessment of risks and threats to economic interests in economic situations,
as well as the formation of a set of measures aimed at increasing the level of
sustainability of economic entities and industries (Danilova
et al., 2021).
Emerging
in the current economic and political situation, events and phenomena of
economic life determine the range of tasks, the competent and effective
solution of which will allow counteracting various negative factors. The
complexity of their solution directly depends on the versatility and diversity
of the issues under consideration. The conceptual issues and provisions of
economic security in the context of national, international, regional and
technological aspects were considered in the many scientific works (Naruetharadhol et al., 2022; Liskovych, 2021; Novikov
and Sazonov, 2020; Miziuk
and Miziuk, 2016) However, it should be noted that they do
not sufficiently cover the range of issues related to the practical
implementation of measures to ensure the economic security of the industry and
its main management levels. The scientific works of scientists dealing with the
issues of transport do not allow judging properly the fundamental development
of the existing problem in terms of forming a system of views on economic
security, taking into account the work of management levels of the transport
(aviation) industry, issues of organization of mechanisms of state regulation
of the work of economic entities, including the formation of monopolies (Lytvynenko and Panasiuk, 2020).
Analysis of the profile literature devoted to economic security allowed concluding that the concept of "economic security" can be considered in various aspects. The horizontal and vertical level of organization of the management process of economic security from the position of the object of management is presented in the Figure 1. The structural basis of economic security of the Russian Federation is the concept of sustainable development of industries, including the aviation industry and groups of enterprises within it. Based on the definition of economic security provided in the "Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on strategic development of economic security of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030," the state of economic security can be ascertained. The decree establishes the parameters for economic security, defining it as a state in which the national economy is safeguarded against both internal and external threats, thereby guaranteeing the maintenance of economic sovereignty and unity of economic space (Meshankov and Tikhonov, 2019).
Figure 1 Horizontal and vertical
level of the economic security organization
One
of the main national development goals of the Russian Federation until 2030 is
the digital transformation of the aviation industry, which will allow:
The
Integration of digital technologies and various platform solutions necessary to
organize the transformation of the transport infrastructure of civil aviation
will take place in the following directions (Avanesova
and Chuprin, 2017). The combined full-scale system of secure
communication and data transfer in transport should become a structural basis
to ensure the development of application services for enterprises working in
the field of civil aviation and to determine the mechanisms of functioning and
development of systems for air transport organization monitoring and
management. Modernization of ground infrastructure is to be carried out through
the development and updating of existing regulatory and legal documents,
technical documentation of a scientific nature, as well as various legal acts,
regulations, and rules that define the mechanism of the entities responsible
for the design and subsequent construction of various infrastructure facilities
through the use of Building Information Model (BIM)-technology (Liskovych, 2021).
The list of the main tasks aimed at implementing the
concept of sustainable growth within the real sector of the economy includes
the following: development and subsequent development of the most promising
sectors of the economy (science-intensive and high-tech), expansion of
mechanisms and ways of applying the innovation and technological potential of
enterprises operating within the defense-industrial complex, which will allow
developing products and goods of civil purposes. Particular attention should be
paid to the problem in the sphere of economic security at the level of
high-tech and knowledge-intensive enterprises, which are an integral component
of economic security at the state level. Having analyzed Russian and foreign
scientific literature in defining the terminology of economic security, the
author considered absolutely different points of view (Table 1).
Table 1 Interpretations of the definition of enterprise economic security
Definition
of economic security |
Main security indicator |
Author of definition |
Protecting the company from various
threats and risks arising in the process of its work in a complex, unstable
economic environment |
Protecting the basic building blocks of
the enterprise |
Elena Anatolievna Gorbashko: Vice-Rector for Quality and
Educational Projects, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics |
State that allows the most efficient use
of resources in order to minimize the impact of external and internal
threats, as well as to ensure ways of stable development and operation of the
enterprise |
It is necessary to achieve the level of
economic security defined in the normative and legal documents |
Evgeny
Alexandrovich Oleynikov: Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation,
Academician, Doctor of Technical Sciences |
The ability of the company to work
effectively in a turbulent production and economic environment |
Achievement of goals designated by the
heads and the company's management |
Grigory
Sergeyevich Vechkanov: Russian Economist, Doctor of Economics, Professor
Emeritus, Member of Academic and Dissertation Councils of Saint Petersburg
State University of Economics |
The state in which a certain degree of
protection is achieved, which allows the implementation of the planned
objectives |
Achievement of goals and major business
interests designated by company’s heads and management |
Olga
Alekseevna Lomovtseva: Head of Scientific and Educational Center
"Economics of Regional Development" of Belgorod State University |
The main task of economic
security is to address the issues associated with providing mechanisms for
sustainable development in which the work of the industrial enterprise is
organized most effectively, with protection from risks and various threats
receding into the background. RMS, in this case, is a practical tool to ensure
economic security. The decree of the President of the Russian Federation
"About strategic development of economic safety of the Russian Federation
for the period till 2030" interprets the term "safety", through
the definition of "risk" as an activity of the overwhelming majority
of the enterprises is connected with conditions of risk and uncertainty.
Therefore, the key tasks of the industrial enterprise at the decisions and the
questions connected with economic safety should become an adequate and
competent assessment of possible approaches of risk events, the definition of
factors that can strengthen it, and also a choice of the most significant
possible risk. The author fully shares the position designated by E.A.
Oleynikov in his scientific works, which believes that the main objective of
the economic security of the industrial enterprise is a qualitative,
sustainable, and effective development, which allows ensuring the high
potential of its development in the future (Miziuk
and Miziuk, 2016). The economic security of the aviation enterprise is
considered in terms of its ability to ensure the steady state of the enterprise
within the framework of achieving the goals designated in the strategic plan,
applying the mechanisms of risk minimization-oriented management. Safety is
defined as the absence of unacceptable risk, which means that the process of
safety management involves the implementation of management functions in order
to maintain an acceptable level of risk factors, which is possible with the
competent use of a number of tools and mechanisms that are included in the
unified safety system of an aviation enterprise.
3.3. Materials and Methods
The methodological basis of the study was a set of
general scientific and special methods and approached:
To minimize the impact of risk components and ensure the effective development of industrial enterprises, it is necessary to take into account various features inherent in a particular industry (for example, the aviation industry is characterized by a long production cycle) as well as take into account the specifics of the enterprise. A characteristic feature of the enterprises operating in the aviation industry is their project orientation, i.e. the practical results of their work have a very close connection with the performance/provision of services or work in the implementation of projects aimed at the production of advanced avionics and aviation equipment. High technological and production complexity inherent in such projects and rather long terms of implementation contribute to the active integration in the project implementation process of various enterprises representing related industries (Novikov, 2020). Taking into account the peculiarities of forced participation for other enterprises in the process of development and implementation of projects on the creation of advanced aviation equipment, in order to ensure a high level of economic security for the enterprise, it is necessary to competently organize timely multidimensional assessment of economic security of its enterprise and those enterprises that are currently involved in the project implementation (Prievozník, Strelcová, and Sventeková 2021). For this purpose, the author has developed an algorithm to determine the economic security level of an industrial (aviation) enterprise (Figure 2).
Figure 2 Algorithm for
identifying the level of economic security
The
main problem in the practical application of the proposed algorithm is that to
date there is absence of a
standardized methodological framework delineating the principal indicator
groups. Such a framework should incorporate the crucial characteristics of
aviation complex enterprises, contingent on their sectoral affiliations.
Selecting the appropriate indicators and identifying the main indicator groups
are crucial components of ensuring economic security. (Novikov
and Sazonov, 2020). The structural composition of the internal
components of the economic security for the aviation enterprise includes
financial aspects, production and technical base, information and technological
base, and intellectual capital. The group of external economic security
components considers environmental and market components. The level of
financial security of an aviation company can be determined based on a system
of solvency indicators, as well as the degree of financial stability. The
technical level of safety is determined by the work quality of the systems of
indicators of production and technical equipment reliability, the period of
technological renewal of the basic production facilities, and the degree of
loading of the current production capacities of the aviation enterprise (Tikhonov and Sazonov, 2020; Sorokin and Novikov, 2019). The quality of information security system performance can be assessed
based on the information about successfully repelled hacker attacks. As a rule,
the security of the investment component is characterized by such groups of
indicators as business activity, level of innovation development and degree of
investment attractiveness of the enterprise (Tatiana
and Mikhail, 2020).
RMS is the main tool to ensure the economic security
of an industrial enterprise for all its numerous constituent groups. RMS makes
it possible to receive, process, analyze various information about current
activities of the enterprise. Furthermore,
it facilitates the evaluation of project feasibility while considering the
level of risk impact and its implications on the enterprise's economic
security. RMS greatly contributes to the growth of the enterprise's economic
security level, at the research and development stage, due to the possibility
of operational analysis of auxiliary works. RMS provides a completely new
approach to risk-oriented management within a particular industry, allows
making various management decisions with a high level of efficiency, at
absolutely different stages of the management process, for example, from the
industry to the project, which eventually makes it possible to significantly
increase the level of economic security of aviation enterprises in difficult economic
conditions (Shynkar et al. 2020; Dmitriev and
Novikov, 2018).
Figure 3 Key Integral
Indicators and indicators of the aircraft industry
where is the generalized criterion defining economic security;
Ti is the
value of particular functional groups of indicators characterizing economic
security;
di are the
weights of importance degree for the main groups of functional components of
economic security;
where is the area of the polygon under the condition of a safe production process;
is the
area of the polygon in the critical region;
is the
area of the polygon in the threshold value.
It should be noted that
the graphical interpretation of the results obtained after analyzing financial
and economic evaluations is often underestimated in practical activities. It
will improve the perception and speed up obtaining qualitative and quantitative
values of the indicators, which is quite important when carrying out a visual
and comprehensive assessment, determining the level of coordination of factors
from different groups, which then determines the trends of aviation equipment
production. The resulting graphs show a fairly complete picture of the current
situation in the aviation enterprise. Within the framework of the specific
features of the aviation equipment production process and in accordance with
certain threshold values of indicators, financial and economic security can be
characterized as follows:
·
stable-normal, i.e.,
indicators of economic security do not exceed the established threshold values;
·
pre-crisis, i.e., the
barrier value of at least one indicator exceeds the established limits of
critical value, and the remaining indicators have a clear tendency to approach
their threshold values while there is still room to improve the value of
indicators (Naruetharadhol et al., 2022; Naruetharadhol
et al., 2021);
·
crisis condition occurs
when the value of the majority of indicators exceeds the established thresholds
and there are active signs of a certain irreversibility or partial loss of
production capacity in the production of aircraft equipment (Arefieva and Kuzenko, 2005);
·
critical, the actual
value of groups of indicators is beyond the established thresholds, completely
losing the entire production capacity to create aeronautical equipment.
In the most general form,
an industrial enterprise's economic security level is characterized by the
degree of preservation of holistic structural formations, as well as the growth
of the main groups of values in the field of financial and economic indicators.
As it is applied to the practical side of industrial (aviation) enterprises,
various specific (sectoral) indicators of its security can be used. It should
be noted that in the economic management process, aviation enterprises
experience the impact of various legal and physical persons, which subsequently
and carry negative consequences for the economic condition of the enterprise,
ultimately leading to the emergence of threats in the field of business
security. Threats in the sphere of economic security are especially important
for a number of industrial (aviation) enterprises since losses in
organizational, image, material, and information are eventually expressed
exactly in economic losses, as well as other threats they have in their basis
certain economic motives (Dziaduk, 2010; Blank, 2004). It is
imperative that the criterion used to assess an aviation enterprise's economic
security not only verifies the existence of economic security but also
accurately determines its level. In case there is a simple statement of the
criterion of economic security of enterprises, a subjective evaluation
inevitably arises. Then, quantitative assessment characterizing the level of
economic security should necessarily be based on the indicators of planning and
accounting of economic activity of the analyzed enterprises. Therefore, it
becomes appropriate to study the work of stability indicators of the enterprise
with the purpose of their subsequent qualitative updating.
Figure 4 Mechanism for managing the economic security of an enterprise
The developed mechanism for managing economic security
and, on its basis, managing an organization's competitiveness, will allow for
maintaining stable development and a sufficient level of competitiveness not
only in the near future but also in the future. The formation of a high level
of competitiveness of an enterprise depends not only on its potential, the
conditions for implementing strategic directions of development, and solving
the problems of optimal use of resource provision but also on the use of
effective concepts for managing competitiveness itself.
In
the economic literature, attempts to conduct a quantitative assessment of the
enterprise's economic security level have been made more than once. The
indicator approach to assessing the level of economic security is determined
with the help of indicators, which are considered as some threshold values of
indicators, which then characterize the work of the enterprise in various
functional areas, which should correspond to a certain level of economic security.
The final assessment of the level of economic security is established based on
comparison results of relative and absolute actual indicators of the work of
aviation enterprises with certain indicators. As a part of this approach, the
state of economic security should be determined by a certain system of basic
indicators, and they should properly reflect the industry-specific aspects and
take into account the conditions of the enterprise.
The
key condition for maintaining a proper level of economic security is the prompt
detection of various threats associated with project implementation, which
ultimately ensures the sustainable development of enterprises. In this case, a
special role is given to selecting the main groups of indicators and indicators
that characterize the economic security of the enterprise. For enterprises
operating in knowledge-intensive industries, the analysis of the level of
economic security is very important since their potential is the main
stabilizing factor in the system of crisis management organization, supporting
economic growth and of course acting as a certain guarantor of security and,
independence of the country. Consequently, the implementation of programs to
ensure the economic security of aviation enterprises, produced by minimizing
risk factors, as well as ensuring innovation and digital progress, will have a
positive effect not only on the company but in the end, will have a significant
impact on the recovery of the economy as a whole.
The economic security of
aviation enterprises is a combination of certain groups of factors and
conditions that ensure certain independence of scientific and production chains
in the aviation industry, the degree of their reliability and stability, the
ability to constant and stable renewal, and self-improvement. RMS will provide
a fundamentally new approach to the organization of risk-oriented management in
the industry, which will take a variety of effective management decisions at
absolutely different levels of government, for example, from the industry to
the project, which ultimately will qualitatively improve the economic security
of aviation enterprises in the difficult modern economic environment. In order for the life trajectory of high-tech aviation enterprises to be
strategically safe, it is necessary to replace the equifinal benchmark for the
development of enterprises (passing through the stages of birth, growth,
maturity, decline, and crisis according to the laws of the life cycle) with a
permanent one by maintaining a constant, continuously ongoing process of
enterprise development (assuming a change of stages maturity to the stage of
new growth, preventing recession and crisis). The idea of permanent development
of an enterprise is not new in itself. However, one of the main methodological
and methodological problems of its implementation remains the diagnosis of
bifurcation points, that is, such threshold states of organizational and
structural variables in which threats to economic security are generated and
are realized either in the form of a transition to a new cycle. Economic
development, or in the form of a crisis and loss of competitive advantage. To
assess the level of strategic economic security of an enterprise, it is
necessary to investigate:
To
assess these levels, we will use two criteria, high (successful, successful) -
1 and low (crisis, dangerous) - 0, and using combinatorics options, we can get
options for the relationship of the studied components. A high level of
strategic economic security of an enterprise is ensured as a result of a
combination of high levels of development of all three key components; In the
presence of a low level of development of one of the three determinants, an
average level of strategic economic security is established, and if a low level
of development of two or more key economic security of the enterprise is
considered low. There are several approaches that allow assessing the life
stages of an enterprise; the first one is associated with a change in the
stability of an enterprise - from absolute stability through a normal, unstable
state to a crisis state and vice versa, and the second one, traces the change
in the life cycle stages of an enterprise: from inception through the rise to
maturity, recession, and crisis. Each stage corresponds to a certain dependence
on the change in indicators. The key of which is the indicator of economic
value added - EVA. As a result of analyzing the behavior of the EVA indicator,
it is possible to determine the stage of the life cycle of an enterprise:
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