INTRODUCTION
The second volume of the monograph includes 29 sections, each of which is
devoted to a specific problem of national economy’s sustainable development.
The first section “DAIRY CATTLE-BREEDING IN UKRAINE: CURRENT
STATE AND PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT”. The purpose of the article is to
carry out an evaluation of genetic resources of breeding dairy cattle Ukraine. The
research was conducted on the observation materials of the State Statistics Service of
Ukraine, the State Register of subjects of breeding business in livestock breeding for
2016 by using statistical methods. The main factor of milk production increasing under
the conditions of introduction of innovative technologies is the higher milk
productivity level of cows. On average, the milk productivity of cows increased by
1043 kg on the farms with innovative technological solutions introduced. The
economic potential of dairy cattle breeding depends on the observance of optimal
parameters of intensive growth, live weight and age of heifers during the first
insemination. By implementing measures for intensive breeding heifers, it is possible
to raise the level of milk productivity of herd by 1101-1234 kg, net income from milk
sales by UAH 6011-6738, reduce the unproductive costs for maintaining heifers by an
average by UAH 4.8 thousand per a cow.
The second section “CURRENT APPROACHES TO VALUE-BASED
ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT”. The problem of terminological inconsistency of the
categories "value of the enterprise" in the scientific discourse was actualized. It was
argued its meaningful content and the dialectic with interconnected concepts was
revealed. The key characteristics of the company's values were determined based on
the forms of their manifestation, attributes and invariants. It is noted that today the
concept of value-oriented management is presented by separate approaches. Based on
their typology, the following are distinguished: cost, social and environmental, inter-
organizational partnership, marketing-consumer, corporate-cultural and motivational-
formative. It is established that their division is determined by the priority of
managerial focus on the creation and offering of value for certain groups of
stakeholders.
The third section “INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS AS AN INTEGRAL
ELEMENT OF THE MODERN FINANCIAL MARKET”. Today there is an
intensification of the institutional investors' activity in the financial market, which
contributes to creating a favourable environment for the accumulation of the financial
resources by the economic entities and ensuring their transformation into investments.
Therefore, in scientific circles there is a considerable interest in the study of the
problems of the functioning of the institutional investors in the current conditions of
the financial market development. The purpose of the study is to analyze the
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