M. : Publishing house of the Moscow Psychological and Social Institute; Voronezh: Publishing house of NGO "MODEK", 2009. — 760 s. —(Manager's Library Series). ISBN 978-5-89502-729-5 (MPSI), ISBN 978-5-89395-668-9 (NGO "MODEC"), The textbook contains a systematic presentation of the methodological, organizational and technological foundations of risk analysis in entrepreneurship using mathematical methods of system analysis. The text of the manual is written based on the results of generalization of materials published in the open domestic and foreign press, as well as on the basis of personal practical experience of the authors. The book consists of an introduction, sixteen chapters, a conclusion, and a list of references. In Chapter 1, risk is analyzed as an inevitable factor of entrepreneurial activity. The features of the terminology of entrepreneurship are discussed, including differences in the concepts of “risk”, “danger”, “threat”. The fundamental concepts and principles of the system approach . are considered. One of the fundamental principles of decision theory is discussed - Pareto axiom. A systematic classification of economic activities by objects of entrepreneurial efforts and ways of obtaining entrepreneurial profit is carried out: production, financial and credit, commercial and intermediary . In Chapter 2, against the background of available examples of various types of economic activity, an extended systematic analysis of the risks associated with these types is carried out. Introduced a system view of the "lottery" as the simplest model of randomness. Forms of financial and credit activity, investment environment, securities market are analyzed. Chapters 3 to 5 continue an in-depth system classification of business risks by the scale, forms and circumstances of their manifestation. In particular, a systematic classification of risks by the nature of the factors that form them is given .. The process of risk management is analyzed in terms of the content of the main approaches to business risk management, modern trends in risk management and the task of choosing a strategy. The essence and basics of the implementation of the concept of adaptive dynamic risk management . In hl. 6 is analyzed