Social System Development Models

The presented study examines the theoretical framework and development models of organizations as social systems.

Aim. The study aims to examine the patterns of business development under a high degree of uncertainty as well as conditions and evidence of its transition to a new quality.

Tasks. The authors examine methods for efficient business management in the context of changes, investigate the major social system development models, and analyze the conditions, structure, and evidence of the transition of a business to a new quality.

Methods. This study uses general methods of scientific cognition to examine the evolution of perspectives on social development in various aspects, determines trends in the current state and development of the business as a social system, and identifies the major directions of changes.

Results. Any system develops under the influence of a complex interaction between external and internal forces by overcoming contradictions, negating the negation in the direction of becoming more complex and acquiring new qualities. The development and birth of a new order require a non-equilibrium and unstable state of the system, which has reached a critical value — bifurcation, a turning point. The system becomes sensitive to weak influences that will transform it until stability is achieved: 1) at a new level of complexity (self-organization); 2) or in one of its previous states (degradation), up to complete disorganization; 3) or in the current state (by changing the influence of forces). Thus, the crisis is associated with both the economic development cycles (regularity) and the unique circumstances of the nonlinear economic system. Therefore, each crisis requires diagnostics, analysis of its causes, and development of appropriate strategies for the specific situation.

Conclusions. Examination of various social system development models makes it possible to identify the urgent problems that the global economy and private business face: finding a new content and form of socio-economic relations that would allow individuals, different communities, and humanity as a whole to get out of an evolutionary impasse.

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