STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AS A FACTOR OF SMALL INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
The necessity of strategic management procedures application on small business enterprises for the purpose of their competitiveness rise in the regional economy is proven. Strategic manage-ment process is presented as a system of socio-economic relationship between an enterprise and its external environment. Characteristics of small industrial business in regions of Russia as a whole and in Sverdlovsk area in particular are considered. The directions of small business stra-tegic development perfection on the basis of its cooperation with the state structures, infrastruc-ture subjects and large-scale business are formulated.