Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Management

The head of the Department is Tetiana Gviniashvili, candidate of economic sciences, associate professor, corresponding member of the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine.

Teaches educational disciplines: "Business strategy", "Economics and organization of innovative activity", "Innovative development of the enterprise".

Scientific interests: development of strategies for small and medium-sized businesses, enterprise management in a changing business environment, innovative development of economic entities.

The Department employs 12 teachers, including 3 doctors of economic sciences and 7 candidates of sciences, 2 senior teachers.

Tetiana Grynko – doctor of economic sciences, professor, academician of the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine, honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine.

Teaches educational disciplines: “Leadership and Communication Technologies in Management”, "Business Strategy", "Strategic Enterprise Management", "Management of Changes and Enterprise Development".

Scientific interests: development strategies for economic entities, change management, transformation of leadership tools and styles, strategic management in the context of digital challenges.

Tetyana Yarovenko – аcting Head of Department, doctor of economic sciences, professor.

Teaches educational disciplines: "Training in Entrepreneurial Processes", "Business Development and Investment Activities of Economic Entities", "Organization of Production and Trade", "Project Analysis", "Labor Economics and Social and Labor Relations", "HR and Social and Labor Relations in the Enterprise”.

Scientific interests: investment, project analysis, riskology, development of education.

Serhiy Kucherenko – candidate of economic sciences, associate professor.

Teaches educational disciplines: "Business Economics", "Business Communications", "Entrepreneurship and Business Culture", "Microentrepreneurship and Small Businesses", "Business Economics and Finance".

Scientific interests: issues of providing Ukrainian enterprises with foreign investment; improving the business structures of industrial enterprises; evaluating the effectiveness of enterprise management systems; problems of increasing the profitability of domestic industrial enterprises.

Roman Pavlov – candidate of economic sciences, associate professor.

Teaches educational disciplines: “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies in Entrepreneurship”, “Risk Management and Anti-Crisis Strategies in Business”, “Technologies for Conducting Exchange Trading”, “Fundamentals of Exchange Activities”.

Scientific interests: exchange activities; bankruptcy diagnostics; logistics management of business entities.

Vladyslav Yakovenko – candidate of economic sciences, corresponding member of the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine, associate professor.

Teaches educational disciplines: “Organization of Scientific Research and Fundamentals of Academic Integrity”, “Fundamentals of Business and Digital Business Communications”, “Innovation and Investment Business”, “Business Modeling in Entrepreneurship and Trade”, “Entrepreneurship and Business Trends in Digitalization”, “Digitalization of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses”.

Scientific interests: business process modeling, forecasting of socio-economic processes, creative economy, data science, social engineering.

Ilona Semencha – doctor of economic sciences, professor.

Teaches educational disciplines: “Methods of Management Decision-Making”, “Training Course: Starting Your Own Business”, “Commercialization of Entrepreneurial Ideas”, “Justification of Economic Decisions and Risk Assessment”, “Training Course: How to Make Money During a Crisis”, “Information Support for Corporate Management”, “Training Course: HR Technologies in Entrepreneurship”.

Scientific interests: management decisions, business, commercialization of business ideas, riskology, HR, corporate management.

Nataliya Kuryacha – candidate of economic sciences.

Teaches educational educational disciplines: “Business in Social Networks”,“Design Thinking in Business”, “Critical Thinking in Business”, “Imageology”, “Team Building”, “Staff Behavior and Labor Relations in the Enterprise”.

Scientific interests: business, imageology, team building, social networks, critical thinking.

Lyudmila Hordeeva-Gerasimova – senior lecturer.

Teaches disciplines: “Business Economics”, “Corporate Social Responsibility”, “Creative Entrepreneurship”, “Comprehensive Training Course”, “Business Performance Evaluation”.

Scientific interests: economics, entrepreneurship, business, corporate strategy.

Ulyana Petrynyak – candidate of economic sciences, associate professor.

Teaches educational disciplines: "Business modeling in business and trade", "Organization of production".

Scientific interests: management of business structures' competitiveness, marketing and management of enterprise activities.

Tetyana Oliynyk – candidate of economic sciences, associate professor.

Teaches disciplines: “Commodity Science”, “Anti-Crisis Business Management”, “Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship”, “Planning and Control in Business”, “Management and Entrepreneurship”, “Methodology and Organization of Scientific Research in Management”.

Scientific interests: economics, globalization, management, human resource development, intellectualization, informatization, etc.

Nataliia Skrypnyk – candidate of economic sciences, associate professor.

Teaches disciplines: “Economic Risks in Entrepreneurship”, “Economic Analysis”, “Organization of an Online Store”, “Risk Management”, “International Markets for Goods and Services”, “Training Course: The Entrepreneur's Formula for Success”, “Economics of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses”, “Economics and Organization of Small Businesses”, “Critical Thinking in Business”, “Economic Analysis and Diagnostics in Business Management”.

Scientific interests: economic analysis, riskology, diagnostics, small and medium-sized businesses.

Nataliia Yakovleva-Melnyk – senior lecturer.

Teaches courses: “Business Communications, Partnership, and Leadership”, “Effective Business Communication in Entrepreneurship”, “Regional Economics”, “Organization of Scientific Research and Fundamentals of Academic Integrity”, “Fundamentals of Wholesale Trade”.

Scientific interests: business communications, partnership, leadership, regional economics, trade.

In recent years, 4 doctoral theses and more than 20 candidate theses have been completed and defended at the Department. Currently, the Department offers post-graduate and doctoral courses in the specialty "Entrepreneurship, trade and stock market activity".

Scientific and pedagogical workers carry out research within the framework of the scientific fundamental topic of the Department: "Conceptual principles of adapting business models and processes of enterprises to conditions of economic instability" head, Doctor of Economics, professor T.V. Grynko.

In 2017, the teachers of the Department developed the scientific project "Concept of transformation of the organizational and economic mechanism of management and logistics of business entities in the system of economic security of Ukraine", which won the competition of scientific research works and is financed from the state budget.

With the active participation of the Department, the journal EconomicStabilityStudies is published, which is included in the list of specialized scientific publications in economic sciences.

Every year, the staff of the Department holds an International Scientific and Practical Conference, in which representatives of scientific schools from Germany, France, Poland, Lithuania and other EU countries participate.

The most significant research results of the conference participants are published in collective monographs: " Development management of business entities: mechanisms, realities, prospects" (2018), " Development management of business entities in the context of the challenges of the XXI century" (2019), "Theory and practice of management of business entities" (2020), "Actual aspects of business entities development in the conditions of the global economy" (2021), "Economics and management 2022: Perspectives of integration and innovative development" (2022 .), "Entrepreneurship: modern challenges, trends and transformations" (2023) edited by Professor T. V. Grynko.

In 2019-2020 the teachers of the Department published the manual "Management of changes and development of the enterprise" (authors: T.V. Grynko, T.Z. Gviniashvili), the collective monograph "Formationonorganizational-economicmechanismofmanagementand logisticsofbusinessentitiesinthesystemofeconomicsecurityofUkraine" (authors: V.G. Bykova, L.A. Velychko., Gviniashvili T.Z., Grynko T.V., Lemberg A.G., Pavlov R.A., Timar I.V.) and others.

Over the past five years, teachers, graduate students, applicants and students of the Department have participated in more than 753 international and all-Ukrainian conferences, published more than 220 scientific articles, 28 monographs, including in journals included in the Scopus, WebofScience scientometric databases.

The promising development direction of the Department is integration into the world scientific community, raising the level of scientific developments in accordance with modern European and world standards.

The Department pays great attention to the organization of scientific research work of students. This approach meets the modern requirements of the European educational process, promotes the increase of students' interest in the results of their studies, and the acquisition of practical research work skills.

Students take an active part in scientific and practical seminars, conferences, Olympiads and competitions of various levels, which significantly increases the quality of preparation of diploma theses at the bachelor's and master's educational and qualification levels from the point of view of their practical implementation.

According to the results of the students' research work "Current aspects of the economic processes development in Ukraine", a collection of materials of the student scientific and practical conference is published annually, which reflects the results of the students' research work.

Within the framework of scientific work with students, the Department operates scientific workshops: "Current problems of enterprises' management of Ukraine" (supervisors: Doctor of Economics, Professor I.E. Semencha), "Modern problems of the development of business entities" (supervisor: c.e.s., Associate Professor S.K. Kucherenko) and "Modern trends in the development of entrepreneurship and trade" (supervisors: Doctor of Economics, Professor T.S. Yarovenko).

The most active members of the workshop received recommendations for admission to a master's degree, employment, and participation in summer schools abroad.

The Department pays considerable attention to the training of scientific and pedagogical personnel through postgraduate and doctoral studies, where full-time and part-time postgraduate students and doctoral students study.

Students take an active part in scientific research competitions, become graduates of the "Intellect-Creativity-Success" competition with a monetary grant for continuing scientific research, participants in the ZAVTRA.UA scholarship program and master classes of world-renowned leading economist scientists.

The Department's international activity is carried out in the following directions: participation of the Department's teachers in international conferences and symposia, cooperation with educational institutions of other countries, joint international scientific developments in the field of economics.

Based on this, the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Management has established fruitful relations with universities: University of Applied Sciences (Mittweida, Germany), Higher Linguistic School (Czestochowa, Poland), Klaipeda University (Klaiped, Lithuania) , University of Professor Dr. Asen Zlatarov (Burgas, Bulgaria), Institute of Economics named after PaataHugushvili of Ivan Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).

Students have the opportunity to study in various programs at universities in Europe (Poland, Italy, Belgium, France) under the International Academic Exchange Programs ERASMUS MUNDUS-BMU-MID, FNEGE (France), which provide for a two-semester study and internship with a scholarship in one of nine partner universities of the Western Europe project: University of Algarve (Portugal), Humboldt University Berlin (Germany), University of Bologna (Italy), University of Bordeaux 1 (France), University of Deusto (Spain), PultuskAcademy of Humanities (Poland), AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki (Greece), University of Turku (Finland) , Vilnius University (Lithuania).

The Department ensures the participation of students in international academic exchange projects. In particular, cooperation is carried out with the Higher School of Occupational Health and Safety Management (WSZOP) in the city of Katowice (Poland) within the framework of the joint educational Master's Program Two Diplomas and the Poznań University of Economics and Business (Poland) under the Student Academic Mobility Program.
A breakthrough in the Department's international activities was the holding of the annual International Scientific and Practical Conference "Economics and Management: Prospects for Integration and Innovative Development with the Participation of Scientists from the European Union."

Teachers of the Department regularly undergo internships abroad and attend seminars conducted by experts from European countries: FoundationNationalepourL'EtseignementdelaGestiondesEnterprises (FNEGE), France; EcoleSuperieurInternationaledeCommerce (ESIDEC), France; Kozmibski University, Poland; McGill University, Canada; INWENT – InternationaleWeiterbildungundEntwicklunggGmbH Germany; CaelDuisbergCentrendemeinnutzigeGmbH (Germany), "Ukrainian initiative" - retraining program of management personnel (project financed by the European Union).

The development of international cooperation, integration into the European educational space is one of the promising areas of activity of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Management in the nearest future.