Approach to Treatment of Enterprise Development from the Quality Positions

The most important for domestic companies under conditions of integration of Ukraine into the world economic environment is improvement of their development. But this is impossible without high quality functioning of an enterprise. That is why, it is topical to solve the issue of improvement of approaches to treatment of enterprise development under modern economic conditions. The goal of the article is to conduct a semantic analysis of the "development" term, to identify specific features of development of modern enterprises and interconnections of development and quality. The article conducts an analytical review of the "development" term and identifies specific features of development of modern enterprises: high level of competition, integration into the world community, formation of information economy, growth of requirements to the quality of enterprise functioning, selection of suppliers and potential consumers and availability of interaction of development and quality. The author makes the following conclusions: development is a dynamic category and the result of certain changes both at an enterprise and in external environment; functioning of any subject of economic activity is focused at development; development is carried out in progressive and regressive directions; the basis of the progressive development of an enterprise is growth of quality of its functioning, quality of selection of suppliers and potential consumers; progressive development is a basis of growth of competitiveness of an enterprise.