Competitive advantages of the company as a factor of its economic security

This article deals with theoretical aspects of ensuring the economic security of an enterprise by acquiring and(or) using its competitive market advantages. In turn, competitive advantages are formed by means of certain resources. Therefore, the author uses the provisions of the resource concept as a tool to investigate the possibility of forming sustainable competitive advantages. Although the competitive strategy is not the absolute and the single tool to ensure the maximum of the economic security of the enterprise, it provides a significant advantage in the form of broader sales opportunities. The research was conducted in the context of the system approach, which represents the enterprise as a "system in the system", interrelating with the external environment. It is the interrelation of all the components of this complex structure that provides one or another result, and if one does not take into account the influence of one of the most resultant fac tors, the developed competitive strategy will be less effective than it could be. Therefore, the author proposes a phased approach to the formation and management of the competitive strategy, developed as a tool to ensure the economic security of the enterprise.