Mushtai Valentyna, PhD (Economics), Associate Professor of the Marketing and logistics Department, Sumy National Agrarian University, Sumy, Ukraine

ORCID: 0000-0001-9042-0241
e-mail: vamushtai@gmail.com

Scientific and Methodological Approaches in Researching the Essence, State and Development of Market Infrastructure

Abstract. Introduction. In today’s conditions, the issue of comprehensive infrastructure development is particularly important as a key component of the sustainable socioeconomic development of economic entities. This necessitates specifying the content of this definition, substantiating new scientific and methodological approaches, and deepening existing provisions regarding its development.

Purpose. This study aims to identify scientific approaches to determining the essence and components of infrastructure on a systemic basis, as well as infrastructure provision. Additionally, it seeks to develop a methodological approach to studying the state and development of infrastructure within economic systems.

Results. We studied a set of existing scientific concepts that explain the category of infrastructure. We identified and analyzed the conceptual foundations of the most common scientific approaches to understanding infrastructure. Each approach enabled us to determine the objectives and particular methods for managing this definition. These approaches include institutional, resource-based, industry-based, structural-functional, and systemic approaches. It should be noted that existing approaches to interpreting infrastructure do not contradict this category; rather, they reflect its multifunctionality. Along with developing scientific approaches, we emphasize that developing methodological approaches to studying the category of “infrastructure” remains an important issue. We present a methodological approach to assessing and analyzing market infrastructure in which elements are grouped into two categories: transportation and logistics and information and analytics. This methodology is supplemented by a personnel component, and its impact on the development of market infrastructure is substantiated by identifying assessment indicators.

Conclusions. The need for further research into the conditions for the development of market infrastructure and the assessment of the actual development of market infrastructure in the future has been identified.

Keywords: infrastructure; institutional approach; resource approach;, sectoral approach; structural-functional approach; systemic approach; methodological approach.

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