Abstract
Modern views on the economic nature of countering raiding is the important prerequisite for the enterprises stable development and the formation of the management system for their economic security based on the assessment and analysis of the environmental factors impact on the risk level of raider take-over. The presented article is aimed at the using analytical and methodological tools to identify the cause-and-effect relationships between environmental factors and the strength of their influence on the risk of raider take-over in order to be introduced into the activities of the enterprise to manage the economic security in the context of countering raiding.In this study, based on the method of analyzing hierarchies, the level of influence of the environmental factors (international, macroeconomic, strategic) of the threat of raider take-over of Ukrainian machine-building enterprises is established. The results confirmed the importance of substantiating of the environmental factors influence on the risk of a raider attack in order to develop the effective scenarios for preventing raider take-over through the prism of the problems of the economic security managing of the machine-building enterprises in rhe countries with economies in transition.