D YNAMICS OF BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHICS OF ORGANIZATIONS IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY AND ITS IMPACT ON APPROACHES TO PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

The relevance of the research is justified by the change in the external environment of organizations’ activities, which is manifested in the integration of ICT technologies into the sphere of organizations’ activities. The turbulence of the external environment also affects the business demography of organizations that require detailed analysis. The study presents the cur - rent structure of organizations in the cross-section of various organizational and legal forms and reveals the current share of non-financial corporations in the gross value added of Russia. Shows changes in the business demographics of domestic com- mercial organizations by form of ownership, current number, opening and closing in the 21st century. The dynamics of activity in the registration of new IT-organizations and in the use of special software by commercial organizations is reflected, and the dynamics of IT-industry development by main indicators is revealed. The growth of the share of IT-organizations in the total number of different organizations over time is revealed. The influence of the dynamics of development of business demogra- phy of commercial organizations on the established approaches to assessing the effectiveness of their activities has been es - tablished. The necessity to revise these approaches in the conditions of the digital economy has been substantiated, and the corresponding proposals have been put forward.