On Issue of Fundamental Nature of Business Activity as a Scientific Category

A number of phenomena represent an extremely general concept expressing the most essential relations arising in reality. Studying of categories consists of determining the most fundamental and wide classes of entities. The article considers the category of «business activity» in terms of theoretical positions. On the basis of studying the specialties nomenclature for highest of scientific qualification, analyzing scientific developments in various scientific directions a conclusion is drawn that business activity is studied to some extent by all sciences. At the same time, depending on the depth of studying the business activity it is possible to conditionally specify two groups of sciences: the ones studying directly or indirectly the essence of the business activity itself as a type of human activity and the ones studying the subjects to which the business activity can be directed. The similar interdisciplinarity of studying the business activity allows to analyze comprehensively various aspects of such a multifaceted phenomenon, but also demands from researchers the identification of the business activity essence taking into account the achievements of other sciences. Similar scientific borrowings allow to reveal the intrinsic characteristics of the «business activity» category, to identify the tendencies of this phenomenons expansion in time and space.