Modern state of the Ukrainian clannish-oligarchic economy can be characterized in the terms of extraordinarily high degree of riskiness that makes actual use of scientifically based approach to the entrepreneurial risk management. Paper analyses certain types of enterprise risks than are connected with the certain forms of rotation of capital. Approaches of the different scientific schools to enterprise and its risks (classic political economy, Austrian, Marxism, Austro -German, Keynesianism, behavioral economics, neoclassical school, institutionalism) are considered in the article. Formation of the modern Ukrainian theory of enterprise risks must include achievements of other scientific schools.

В статье проведен критический анализ взглядов представителей основных теоретических школ относительно подходов к изучению предпринимательских рисков. Особое внимание уделено рассмотрению предпринимательских рисков в условиях олигархической переходной экономики Украины.