Agruts D., Stelmakh N.

Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after M.Tugan-Baranovsky,Ukraine

ENTERPRISE SECRET - THE BASIS OF WELL-BEING OF THE ENTERPRISE

Simultaneously with the new economic relations there were new economic offenses the environment of businessmen themselves, the unfair competition. One of displays of noncompetitive actions is the misuse of the data making a trade secret of the subject of enterprise activity. We shall discuss problems connected with application of the term “trade secret”, in this article.

The entrepreneurial secret of the enterprise are the data connected with manufacture, technological information, management, finance and other types of the enterprises activity that are not the state secret, but the leakage of which can cause a damage to its interests.

The subject of “enterprise secret” is the data connected with commercial and economic activity of the enterprise: industrial and technological information, management information, finance and other activity. It can be documents on commercial negotiations of the enterprise and pricing methods, the documents connected with marketing researches of market, data on labour organization and headhunting, information about documentation, i.e. the data possessing commercial value.

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