Essence and Component Elements of the Mechanism of Management of the Enterprise Economic Security

The article contains analysis of existing views regarding definition of the "mechanism" notion. All types of definitions, which were found in the scientific literature, were systemised by essence and common and distinctive features, advantages and shortcomings were revealed. The first block contains definitions of the business mechanism, the second - definitions of the economic mechanism, and the third - definitions of the management mechanism. On the basis of the conducted study the article marks out main features of the "mechanism" notion in the economic theory: systemacy, organisation, independence, integration and complexity. The article underlines differences between the mechanisms of anti-crisis management and economic security management. Based on the conducted analysis the article offers a structure of the system of economic security management and mechanism of economic security management of an enterprise and studies their elements. It formulates own definition of the enterprise economic security management mechanism notion.