Enterprise Economic Security: Scientific View and Business Reality

Abstract

The article is devoted to a critical analysis of research on economic security of an enterprise. Comparing so called western research and Eastern European research in the area, we review main issues the researchers face while studying this concept from theoretical and practical point of view. Further, using strategy of exploratory research we analyze requirements to specialists in economic security of the enterprise on Ukrainian job market and juxtapose the findings to those driven from our analysis of definitions and elements of economic security suggested by scientific literature. The study allows formulating recommendations on possible ways to integrate scientific research in the area of the enterprise economic security into international scientific thought and suggests missing links in the triangle education-job marketscience