Research of the concept of sustainability for economic network structures

Abstract

Purpose: to conduct a research of the concept of sustainability in network economic structures context. Discussion: it is proposed to update the terminological dictionary for the concept of sustainability of network economic structures due to the fact that the concept of sustainability is multifaceted, quite a lot of researches have been carried out on various aspects of sustainability, but regardless of the organization form of enterprises. Results: the insufficient methodological elaboration for such types of sustainability as personnel sustainability, organizational sustainability and risk sustainability was revealed; the necessity of further research of these types of sustainability in relation to network structures was substantiated. The concepts of integration stability, elementary stability and structural stability for network enterprises are introduced, their essence is disclosed, and models of indicators for their assessment are proposed. The ways of development of studies of stability of network economic structures are outlined.