The paper introduces the preconditions for environmental engineering business. According to the collected theoretical material the authors analyse the environmental engineering business development , approaches to the environmental engineering business management from the viewpoint of sustainability principles and the systems of sustainable business management.

The article evaluates the sustainable development concept and possibilities for assessment of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development and assessment of it and its dimensions are reviewed from the viewpoint of principles of environmental economics and sustainable development.

This paper presents the theoretical substantiation of the concepts of supply chain and management of supply chain processes. It analyzes the supply chain processes that prevail in industrial food production companies as well as examines the possibilities of managing these processes. Based on the methodology used for the research of management of supply chain processes, the paper analyzes the management of supply chain processes prevailing in industrial food production companies.

The article discusses effects of international expansion, type of an acquisition, cultural and institutional distance as well as traditional control variables in order to investigate short term wealth effects for acquiring company shareholders. According to the collected theoretical and practical material, it analyzes how do economic theories explain acquisition returns. The research supports that international expansion by companies from Old EU Member States to New Member States is found to result in a a positive shareholder wealth effect.

High activity levels of M&A market indicate redeeming confidence level in the economy. However, there is a puzzle of macroeconomic, microeconomic, geopolitical, and institutional factors that question sustainability of this growth. The study interlinks actual M&A occurrences with economic cycle from theoretical perspective and supports that mergers and acquisitions are always a decision for each individual company and a successful M&A does not just depend on the optimal timing of a transaction, but on a multitude of factors.