Information on the thesis

Thesis for the degree of Ph.D. in Economics, specialty 08.00.02 – world economy
and international economic relations. – Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Ministry of
Education and Science of Ukraine, Lviv City, 2016.
The present paper is dedicated to theoretical generalization of improvement of anti-
crisis management of social and economic systems under conditions of global competitive
environment.  This  will  provide us  with the  opportunity  to  avoid  crisis developments  in
Ukrainian economy in the future. Also it will facilitate social and economic development
of  the  country  and  its  integration  into  European  economic  space.  Having  taken  into
account  the  influence  of  globalization  on  competitive  relations  it  has  been  proved  that
crisis developments in social and economic systems should be considered in the light of
“quasi-crisis  pressure”  which  is  about  existence  under  conditions  of  global  competitive
threat  environment  of  the  resources  in  use  outflow  into  the  other  social  and  economic
systems or freezing of new resources in-flow. This has made it possible to complement the
classification  of  crisis  development  factors  with  a  new  feature:  resource  type  which
outflow  threat  is  increasing  under  globalization  conditions;  in  contrast  to  present
approaches, having taken into account the resource aspect of crisis phenomenon, this will
provide  us  with  an  opportunity  of  comprehensive  account  of  global  competitive
environment influence on performance and development of social and economic systems
under globalization conditions.
Special  considerations  relating  to  global  competitive  environment  at  the  present
stage  of  the  world  economy  development  have  been  analyzed,  world  experience  in
development  and  realization  of  anti-crisis  strategies  has  been  classified,  peculiarities  of
influence of  cyclic development  factors of  world  social  and  economic  processes on  the
development of national economies in the XXI century have been studied. The conducted
analysis  of  social  and  economic  processes  within  the  world  economy  has  allowed
establishing of the hypothesis on termination of the Kondratiev cycle ascending wave in
2005-2008.
On the basis of the world experience regarding prevention of anti-crisis phenomena
and their consequences neutralization, anti-crisis measures have been classifies within two
strategies: 1) decrease of quasi-crisis pressure on national manufacturers due to limitation
of  competition  on  the  part of  the  country;  2)  increase of  resources  volume  received  by
national  manufacturers  from  the  state  beyond  the  market  mechanism.  Under  present
conditions the second strategy is spread more and is more effective.
The  conducted  analysis  of  main  negative  influence  of  the  world  competitive
environment on the economy of Ukraine has allowed us to admit that the determinant of
national  economy  vulnerability  under globalization  is  lack  in  technology, that  enhances   20
Ukrainian economic sensitivity to threats from the world environment (high speculative
capital at the financial market, dependence on import of energy carriers, etc.). This gives
an opportunity to prove the necessity of modernization and industrialization within anti-
crisis  strategy  of  Ukraine,  that  contributes  to  integration  of  the  state  economy  into  the
European market.
On the basis of the open triple-sector economic model (material sector,  sector of
production  of  fixed  assets,  consumer  sector),  using  maximum  of  discounted  specific
consumption  as  an  optimization  criteria,  and  requirements  to  following  material  and
resource, technological and consumption security of the country as limitation condition,
optimal allocation of investment and labor resources among the sectors has been assessed.
Also it has been established that if the actual resource allocation meets the optimal one (it
is typical for economy of Ukraine), then the anti-crisis strategy includes two stages. Stage
1 involves accelerated industrial growth in economy due to an engineering sector. It starts
with  three  control  actions:  maximum  volume  of  investment  resources  is  given  to  the
engineering  industry,  minimum  investment  resources  volume  required  for  material,
resource  and  consumption  security  of  the  country  is  given  to  material  and  consumer
sectors. Conditions for labor force transfer by means of creation of new high-paid work
places are established.
Stage 2 – slow industrial growth – involves increase of capital-labor ratio in the
consumer  sector,  the  increase  rates  of  the  capital-labor  ratio  of  the  capital-labor  supply
sector decrease, and the index slowly grows to the optimum value.
Estimated period of the accelerated industrial growth is 5 years; within this period
capital-labor  ratio  of  the  engineering  sector  should  increase  by  a  factor  of  2.5,  108
thousand UAH per one employee. For this purpose, engineering in-flow of 69% from all
investment  resources  supply  into  economy  should  be  provided.  At  the  next  stage
(15 years) capital-labor ratio sector regarding production of fixed assets should increase by
a  factor  of  2.  Due  to  technological  modernization  in  engineering  and  on  the  basis  of
domestic production, increase of corresponding values in material and consumer sectors
will  take  place.  Strategy  realization  will  give  us  opportunity  to  achieve  a  series  of
macroeconomic  effects,  in  particular,  increase  labor  productivity  and  ensure  effective
resistance to the world challenges at all stages of competitive relations.
Key words: anti-crisis strategy, crisis, social and economic development, global
competitive environment.