Features of the SPACE method using for the optimal choice making of strategy development of foreign economic activity

Issue: № 11/2, 2020

Doi: https://doi.org/10.37634/efp.2020.11(2).4

Introduction. Activation of international business requires the formation of a strategy for the development of foreign economic activity, because its implementation allows to increase competitiveness and flexibility under conditions of the business environment changes. Nowadays, the problems of developing the foreign economic strategy of the enterprise become especially relevant, because the modern conditions of commercial activity require fundamentally new standards, management methods and stages of international business organizing. The purpose of the paper is to study the peculiarities of the application of the method of strategic analysis SPACE for the implementation of the optimal choice of development strategy of domestic enterprises on the example of Electroprylad SPE LLC. Results. The SPACE method is to develop an assessment of the strategic position and strategic actions of the enterprise. This is a comprehensive method of strategic analysis, which allows you to identify and characterize the competitive position in the market in order to select the best strategy for the enterprise to act at the market. The introduction of the SPACE method for the implementation of the optimal choice of development strategy of Electroprylad SPE LLC provides for the implementation of successive stages: analysis of financial strength; determination of competitive positions in foreign markets; assessing the attractiveness of potential foreign markets; assessment of prospects for potential stability in foreign markets; selection of the optimal strategy for the development of foreign economic activity of the enterprise based on the results of the SPACE method. The SPACE method allowed to form a group of priority characteristics and parameters of Electroprylad SPE LLC activity, which were previously identified from all existing variety, allowed to organize them and determine the complex impact on the management decision-making process by validity, as well as to choose the best foreign economic development strategy. Conclusion. Implementation of the SPACE method for selecting the strategy of foreign economic activity development of Electroprylad SPE LLC is connected with the mandatory involvement leading specialists in the strategic analysis in order to perform the necessary tasks related to the methodology of strategic analysis. The set of criteria is determined taking into account the internal priorities of work and external strategic goals of foreign economic activity. The parameters of the production and financial strength of Electroprylad SPE LLC must be fully taken into account.

Keywords : strategic management, strategy, strategic analysis, foreign economic activity, domestic enterprises, SPACE method, evaluation criteria

References:

1. Ansoff I. New corporative strategy. Saint Petersburg: «Piter», 1999. 416 p. (in Russian).

2. Vikhanskiy O.S. Strategic management. Moscow: «Ekonomist», 2004. 296 p. (in Russian).

3. Vasylenko V.A., Tkachenko T.I. Strategic management. Kyiv: TSUL, 2003. 396 p. (in Russian).

4. Volodkina M.V. Strategic management. Kyiv: «Znannia», 2002. 159 p. (in Russian).

5. Tompson A.A., Strikland A.Dzh. Strategic management: Concepts and situations for analysys. Mocsow: «Williams», 2003. 924 p. (in Russian).

6. Fatkhutdinov R.A. Strategic management. Moscow: «Delo», 2004. 448 p. (in Russian).

7. Shershniova Z.Ye., Oborska M.V., Ratushnui Yu.M. Strategic management. Kyiv: KNEU, 2001. 232 p. (in Ukrainian).

8. Voronkova A.E., Lezhepiokova V.H., Sviridova O.V., Pohorelov Yu.S. Fundamentals of foreign economic activity. Luhansk: Publishing House of SNU after V. Dal, 2010. 320 p. (in Ukrainian).

9. Kozak Yu.H., Lohviniva N.S., Svachenko I.Yu. Foreign economic activities of enterprises. Kyiv: «Center of educational literature», 2006. 792 p. (in Ukrainian).

10. Didkivskyi M.I. Foreign economic activities of the enterprise. Kyiv: «Znannia», 2006. 462 p. (in Ukrainian).

11. Ivanov Yu.B., Tyshschenko O.M., Chechetova-Terashvili T.M., Revenko O.V. Strategy of an enterprise. Kharkiv: «INZHEK», 2009. 560 p. (in Ukrainian).

12. Mazaraki A.A. Management of foreign economic activities. Kyiv: KNUTE, 2012. 824 p. (in Ukrainian).

13. Kyrychenko O.A. Management of foreign economic activities. Kyiv: «Znannia», 2008. 518 p. (in Ukrainian).

14. Pitel N.Ya. Features of strategic management of enterprises foreign economic activity in the context of globalization. Collected Works of Uman National University of Horticulture. 2015. Issue 87(2). pp. 120–128. URL: http://nbuv.gov.ua/UJRN/zhpumus_2015_87(2)__17. (Last accessed: 17.10.2020). (in Ukrainian).

15. Perhat L.I. The essence of managing the enterprise foreign economic activity. Culture of Black Sea People. 2012. № 244. pp. 114–119. (in Ukrainian).

16. Babii I.V. Features of the formation of strategies for managing foreign economic activity of industrial enterprises. Eastern Europe: economy, business and management. 2016. Issue 2 (02). pp. 123–126. (in Ukrainian).

17. Dvulit Z.P., Pedos V.O. Certain aspects of the features of the strategy of enterprises foreign economic activity. Global and National Problems of Economy. 2017. Issue 18. pp. 196–200. (in Ukrainian).

18. Karpenko M.O., Karpik Yu.S. The role of strategic planning in enterprises foreign economic activities management. URL: http://jrnl.nau.edu.ua/index.php/PPEI/article/download/457/445. (Last accessed: 19.10.2020). (in Ukrainian).

19. Dunska A.R., Usachova I.D. The cyclical nature of the crisis in the foreign economic activity of Ukraine. Problems and perspectives of entrepreneurship development. 2016. № 3(2). pp. 73–79. URL: http://nbuv.gov.ua/UJRN/piprp_2016_3(2)__16. (Last accessed: 19.10.2020). (in Ukrainian).

20. Dzhusov O.A., Prokofieva A.D. Strategic alternatives for enterprises foreign economic activities development. European Journal of Management Issues. 2014. Vol. 22, Issue 3. pp. 24–31. URL: http://nbuv.gov.ua/UJRN/ vdumi_2014_22_3_6. (Last accessed: 19.10.2020). (in Ukrainian).

21. Kuzmin O.Ye., Petryshyn N.Ya., Doroshkevych K.O. Strategic activities of enterprises: planning technologies and constructing maps: monography. Lviv: «Miski informatsiini systemy», 2011. 320 p. (in Ukrainian).

22. Lishchynska V.V. The choice of the optimal competitive strategy of the enterprise in the conditions of interval evaluations of the criteria of its effectiveness. Business Inform. 2019. № 7. pp. 325–330. (in Ukrainian).

23. Hnedina K.V. Strategy: essence, adventages, methods and instruments of formation. Business Inform. 2019. № 2. pp. 14–20. (in Ukrainian).

24. Mazorenko O.V. Criterion for selecting the enterprise export strategy. Business Inform. 2019. № 8. pp. 253–258. (in Ukrainian).

Download paper