enterprise (Main Enterprise 1) is highly risky. That is why we have an additional
enterprise (Enterprise 2) as an optimal supplier of raw materials (the guaranteed source
of raw materials, controlled costs) and opportunity for the optimal sales of products.
Figure 3. The Structural Scheme of Interaction between Enterprises of an
Industrial Company
Cooperating enterprises 1 and 2 is the combination of strategies of diversification
and vertical integration, which is the combination on financial and economic basis of
different technologically connected enterprises related to consequent stages of
technological process and elements of logistic chains.
Enterprise 3 works in a potentially segregated market and has the rapid capital
turnover. Its activity is beyond the material production unlike other two enterprises. It
has only financial connection with two other enterprises, namely redistribution of cash
flows and capital within the cluster of enterprises.
If market conditions are good for Enterprises 1 and 2, Enterprise 3 provides them
with additional capital. If market conditions worsen, it stabilizes the general financial
Enterprise 1
(main production)
Optimal supply of raw
material
Enterprise 2
Sales of
products
Market 1
Market 2
Enterprise 3
Market 3
The main cash flows
Guaranteeing stabilization of financial positions
Investments in development
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