Strategic role of the core agro-industrial holdings in ensuring food security of the Russian Federation (beef cattle farming case study)

Abstract

Strategic enterprises of the Russian meat livestock sector are represented by vertically integrated agro-industrial holdings, whose competitive advantages, functional structure, and specifics of their businesses make corporations important participants in ensuring national food security. The theoretical and methodological basis of the work is the general theory of strategy and methodology of strategizing by academician Vladimir L. Kvint. The study revealed that ensuring national food security in Russia is under the influence of several strategic threats, in particular: insufficient stability of the institutional environment; biased quantitative criteria for achieving food security; lack of strategic management of emergency periods. Overcoming these challenges is possible by building a strategic system hierarchical approach, in the theory of strategy and methodology of strategizing by Professor Vladimir L. Kvint. The fifth is called the Hierarchic System of Strategy based on the alignment of global, national, regional, and corporate interests. The latter primarily concern strategic agro-industrial holdings, whose industry leadership, production potential and financial stability can have a positive impact on increasing the sustainability of regional food markets by expanding the physical and economic availability of food, which contributes to improving the quality of life of the population – the main guideline of the strategy at any level.