The work is devoted to the study of the enterprise management system's impact on achieving sustainability parameters in the context of reformatting the mechanisms for acquiring competitive advantages. Managerial activity is presented not as a system of isolated elements of the functional hierarchy but as a set of business processes. The transformation of approaches in the management of enterprises is considered from the point of view of identifying paradigm shifts in understanding the ways and mechanisms of development, which is recognized as an impetus for the development of new research areas and the search for new management tools