Organizational and economic mechanisms for ensuring managerial flexibility under economic risks

Abstract

The intensification of economic instability drives the relevance of this study, the growing level of uncertainty, and the cumulative impact of military, financial, logistical, tax, labour, and energy risks on enterprise activities. Under such conditions, traditional standardised management approaches prove insufficient to ensure stability and continuity of business operations. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the theoretical foundations and develop the author’s approach to the formation of an organisational and economic mechanism for ensuring managerial flexibility of enterprises based on the integration of risk-oriented management and adaptive managerial tools. Achieving this goal involves systematising current economic risks, determining their impact on management system parameters, and substantiating the logic of transition from risk challenges to flexible managerial decisions and managerial resilience. The methodological framework of the study is based on general scientific and specialised methods of cognition, including analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, systemic and structural-functional approaches, and methods of generalisation and logical modelling. The study establishes that managerial flexibility is not a separate managerial characteristic or a situational response to changes in the external environment, but an integrated managerial outcome of the coordinated interaction among organisational, economic, and information-analytical mechanisms. It is substantiated that economic risks act as triggers of managerial change and determine the differentiation of managerial response forms and tools. An author’s model for ensuring managerial flexibility is proposed, reflecting the logic of transitioning from the identification of economic risks to the application of organisational and economic mechanisms, the formation of flexible managerial decisions, and the achievement of managerial resilience within the enterprise. The conducted systematisation of mechanisms, tools, and managerial outcomes confirms the feasibility of an integrated approach to management under economic risks.