NECESSITY AND PREREQUISITES FOR ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION OF MANUFACTURING BY BUSINESS SUBJECTS

Abstract

Background. The purpose of this paper is to examine the main preconditions for the ecological modernization of production. The study considers some grouping approaches used in Europe. It is defined that scientific approaches to precondition analyses are diverse and depend mostly on research objectives, data quality, and chosen research method. The authors propose their method of preconditions systematization that allows one to take into account the basic stimulating factor and is based on the explored experience of ecological innovation implementation. According to this approach, it is divided into five groups of modernization factors: historical, legislative, stimulating, marketing, and technical. .

Methods. It was used general scientific methods, in particular, analysis and synthesis; the comparative method was used to compare existing approaches to systematizing the prerequisites for the environmental modernization of production; the method of abstraction and generalization was used in the process of developing the author's approach to systematizing the prerequisites for environmental modernization of production by subjects of sub-industries.

Results. The result of the study is the presentation of the author's approach to systematizing the prerequisites for ecological modernization of production by business entities

Conclusions. The research has shown that there is no single methodology for systematizing the factors that trigger the mechanism of ecological modernization of manufacturing processes. Based on these conclusions, an attempt was made to develop an approach to systematization of the prerequisites for making a decision to initiate environmental modernization of production among business entities. As a result, it was proposed to assign six main categories that logically combine and structure all possible factors for stimulating the ecologization of production: historical, legislative, incentive, market, technical and progressive. The categories of influence are in a certain interdependence and subordination, characterizing the level of occurrence of the influence factor and the degree of autonomy of the business entity in the decision-making process.