A study of advantages of cluster formations for increasing the competitiveness of industrial enterprises
Abstract. A study of problems and features of the formation of industrial clusters in modern Russia is carried out, aimed at identifying sources of increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of domestic enterprises. In the context of modern challenges of reformatting global value chains and implemented economic models, certain difficulties in the production and business environment have emerged and the favorable opportunities for the efficient production of goods and services provided by the digital economy have decreased. In order to neutralize the impact of negative factors and reach a new level of economic efficiency, which is a basis for the competitiveness of contemporary enterprises, mechanisms of new integration formations are needed, which can be provided by industrial clusters. The results of the conducted research show the unconditional advantages of cooperation between enterprises participating in the cluster, which reduce business risks associated with a high level of competition, availability of necessary resources, pricing and interaction between suppliers and customers. The methods of structural and morphological forecasting, the theory of organized systems, systemic and situational approaches, business process modeling based on the materials of the activities of domestic and foreign business entities, their territorial and sectoral associations were used. The conclusions of the study are aimed at developing new approaches to the effective development of production systems and clarifying existing methods for increasing the competitiveness of enterprises in the face of uncertainties and various restrictive measures.
Keywords: economic efficiency, clusters, competitiveness, risks, prospects.
Highlights:
- modern cluster formations represent an effective form of organizing business processes, ensuring, through a more optimal organization of economic activity, a reduction in losses and the creation of conditions for mutually beneficial cooperation between participating organizations, reducing business risks associated with a high level of competition;
- the effective operation of industrial clusters makes it possible to reduce the negative impact of destabilizing factors, including those arising from the outside, and increase the economic security not only of the industrial enterprises themselves and the correspondingclusters, but also of individual regions and the whole country as a whole;
- for the successful operation of industrial clusters, it is necessary to create and maintain conditions for spatial proximity, specialization of cluster enterprises by industry sectors, create a high level of infrastructure development, and the possibility of implementing joint promising projects and initiatives.
Nikita A. Nikitin, Gennady I. Yakovlev - Samara State University of Economics, Samara, Russia