Theoretical basis of the enterprise competitiveness: a review of definitions

The article is devoted to the applicability to the study of competitiveness. The authors analyse the definitions of “enterprise competitiveness» and levels of the hierarchy of competitiveness. Besides, the authors come to a conclusion that the notion of “competitiveness of the company” is still clearly uncertain. It can be concluded that the difference between the requirements for the enterprise by market entities: customers, competitors, investors, and management structures of a higher level, change the indicators used to measure competitiveness, which is reflected in the conceptual apparatus.

competition, competitiveness, country competitiveness, region competitiveness, enterprise competitiveness, competitiveness of the goods, cluster competitiveness, national competitiveness, competitiveness of an industry, competition value