Shadow Economy Influence on Ensuring Economic Security

This article is devoted to the study of the shadow economy impact on the economic security of the organization. The need to consider the economic security of an enterprise is due not only to the need to ensure the stability and stability of economic processes, to maintain the ability of economic entities to constantly update and improve, but also in connection with the growth and spread of subjects, phenomena and processes in the economy that are defined as illegal or shadow. The article presents the results of the study of the cause-and-effect relationships between economic growth, entrepreneurial activity and obstacles to the development of healthy economic relations that arise as a result of the expansion of the shadow economic sector. The authors have studied the digitalization of the shadow economy, highlighted its segments, and identified trends in the development of the shadow sector manifested through criminalization, as well as the key elements of the shadow economy system. The article considers options for actions that prevent a failure in ensuring economic security.