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The role of business entities in achieving sustainable development goals has been studied in terms of environmental performance. However, the integration of the model by involving an environmental strategy and green innovation is still rare. The purpose of this study is to examine and explain the role of environmental strategy and green innovation in building SMEs’ environmental performance. This study uses a survey method on 177 managers and assistant managers of export SMEs who are concerned with efforts to save the environment. The results showed that environmental strategy had a significant effect on green innovation in realizing environmental performance.

The paper studies the theoretical and methodological principles, regularities, and new trends in the formation of international production networks (IPNs) in the global economic space. It determines the imperatives of their development, substantiating the priority nature of integrating national actors into IPNs. The author applies the methods of fuzzy clustering and classification using the artificial intelligence technologies to data on the dynamics of key economic and technological markers of 35 countries in the 2007–2016 time frame.The work identifies a clustering-like structure in the sample country set; allowing determining patterns in the correlation between a country’s manifested potential for ascending into and within international production networks and certain development and international integration indicators. The sample is thus grouped into six clusters based on the degree of integration into IPNs. Due to the use of classification analysis, the rules for assigning a country to a particular cluster were obtained. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that the main imperative for the development of international production networks is innovative development. The overall concept of localization of Ukrainian enterprises at all stages of value creation within networks was offered.

It was determined that in the conditions of the development of a modern competitive economy based on knowledge, innovations are the basis of economic development. Sustainable economic growth and an increase in the standard of living can be achieved only by increasing labor productivity and introducing new, higher-quality products and services that compete successfully on the world market. facing our country, they demand the development of a new paradigm for the development of the national economy. Only the formation of a new, diversified and innovative economy will make it possible to ensure Ukraine's competitiveness on the world market. Radical changes are taking place in modern society, leading to the dominance of knowledge as a factor of social development. At the beginning of the 21st century, it must be said that knowledge is becoming a decisive economic resource based on the following patterns of development of productive forces in the scientific and technological era: first, due to the replacement of natural resources with man-made resources; secondly, due to the saving of labor, its mechanization and automation: the replacement of working machines leads to labor savings, since machines, as a rule, are more productive than non-mechanized labor; thirdly, due to the saving of physical capital: replacing less productive machines with more productive ones, and replacing them with high-tech equipment leads to saving not only labor, but also investments, since each subsequent, more technological unit of material capital is more efficient and productive; fourth, due to the replacement of natural, material and labor components of production with intellectual ones (high technologies, computer support, etc. Modern conditions for the use of knowledge as a resource envisage orientation primarily on market mechanisms of functioning and formation, equivalence, payment and specificity. One of the main tools of the knowledge economy is the functioning of the global knowledge market. The market is a system of economic relations based on exchange relations, that is, on the payment and price of purchased goods and services. It can be argued that the knowledge market is a set of economic relations that are established between producers and sellers of knowledge, affecting their supply, and buyers (consumers) of these goods and services, which form the demand for them through the purchase and sale of the latter. Визначено, що в умовах розвитку сучасної конкурентоспроможної економіки, заснованої на знаннях, інновації є основою економічного розвитку. Стійке економічне зростання і підвищення рівня життя можуть бути досягнуті тільки за рахунок підвищення продуктивності праці та впровадження нових більш якісних продуктів і послуг, що успішно конкурують на світовому ринку.Обгрунтовано, що на сучасному етапі зростаюча неефективність сформованої економічної моделі, її неадекватність глобальним викликам, що стоять перед нашою країною, вимагають розробки нової парадигми розвитку національної економіки. Тільки формування нової економіки, ...

Abstract. The totality of modern geopolitical challenges and threats in the new information reality can be characterized as hybrid warfare, which includes a wide range of actions aimed at destruction of all spheres of social life of the rival state. Hybrid wars are now becoming the main instrument of geopolitical confrontation, which actualizes the search for counteraction to such threats. The widespread use of asymmetric crisis management has become an integral part of the practice of diplomacy, the basis for the effective implementation of the national security strategy of any sovereign state. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that hybrid wars today have become an integral part of new geopolitical realities. Asymmetric strategies, together with preventive diplomacy, are extremely relevant instruments of world politics. However, the theory and practice of an asymmetric approach in international relations, despite its relevance, has been developed rather fragmentarily, especially in matters of classification of asymmetric strategies. The main aim of the article is the analysis the role of strategies in the conditions of the modern hybrid war and to figure out the role of knowledge component in the formation of the world competitive leaders. The methodological basis of the article is the methods and forms of scientific knowledge adopted in domestic science, such as system approaches, comparative and synthesis methods, methods of abstract logical evaluation, methods of detailing, groupings and generalizations, experts’ evaluations. The results: the reasons of the hybrid war were revealed, the specific features of crisis strategies were presented, the influence of the knowledge component on the competitiveness of the countries was proved, disruptive technologies on the competitiveness of the national economies were proved, the specific features of the disruptive technologies were presented, the effective asymmetric strategies were underlined. Keywords: hybrid war, strategies, knowledge economy, competition, global development, matrix of initial data. JEL Classification D83, J24, O30 Formulas: 0; tabl.: 3; fig.: 0; bibl.: 15.