Tools of Efficiency Improvement of the Integrated Structures Functioning in Industry

The article presents the results of the problems research in the field of integrated structures management in industry. It proposes new approaches to the modernization of the functioning of these associations. The author sees the ways of improving the efficiency of integrated industrial structures in the application of modern management tools, such as improving the structure of associations through the creation of horizontal network links, through the introduction of multi-agent technologies and through the development of a new model of interaction between participants of associations. The result of the research is identification of a new efficiency indicator of the integrated structures functioning and the development of a model for the functioning of horizontal networked industrial associations, built on the basis of the principles of interaction between members of cluster structures.