ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS APPROACHES TO THE DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The paper discusses various approaches to the definition of "sustainable development of the enterprise": the first approach is based on the relationship between sustainable development and set of external and internal factors of the economic environment of the enterprise. The second approach is to consider sustainable development in terms of financial stability of the enterprise" The third approach is based on comparison of the category of "sustainable development" and stability and economic equilibrium of the enterprise. The fourth approach considers that phenomenon from the position of correspondence of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the enterprise. The approaches to the definition of sustainable development are grouped into two areas: 1) dynamic, based on the definition of sustainability from the perspective of the dynamics of internal and external economic developments, and 2) static, in which economic sustainability is viewуd from the perspective of financial and economic activities. The paper describes a set of different characteristics that define this concept.