The economic essence of the concepts of competitiveness of enterprises and products

Аnnotation: In article the author carries out the мен analysis of genesis of the specified concepts, since times of origin of a classical economic science. Works devoted to the given problematics of leading world and domestic economists are investigated. The critical analysis of existing definitions of concepts of competitiveness of the enterprise and production is given. It is revealed that now there is no uniform definition of concept of competitiveness. The author’s treatment of competitiveness of the enterprise taking into account lacks of existing definitions is offered.