Management: life cycle

In the transformation processes that have been taking place in the economic system over the past four centuries, initially in Europe and then on a global scale, the sequential and cyclical nature is clearly visible, manifested most clearly in the periodic development of the so-called industrial revolutions. The essence of these four revolutions generated in many ways by scientific and technological progress are fundamental changes in the system of industrial relations. An important place in these transformations is occupied by changes in the system of management relations, along with technological changes, they largely determine the success or failure of business entities in the market to pass the stage of revolutionary transformations of the economic system. Obviously, it is the new circumstances that set the requirements that the business management system have to meet. The following questions arise: what role the “genetics” of the management system plays in the process of its adaptation to new conditions; to what extent the initial historically formed model of business organization management influences on its adaptive capabilities; to what extent the initially formed management patterns are a brake on the path to the transformational development of management

In the paper, on the methodological basis of historical materialism and dialectical logic, the aim is to consider the trajectory and logic of the transformational process of development of management relations in the context of the deployment of industrial revolutions, that is the dialectics of their development are displayed in historical retrospect

The paper provides a systematic consideration of the origin and evolution of management as a separate type of management activity in connection with the development of the socio-economic system as a result of industrial revolutions. The article shows how the generic initial characteristics of management determined its specific features and how they influenced its transformational changes under the cardinal changes in the scientific and technological, social and economic spheres. At the stage of the third industrial revolution management was transformed to such an extent which led to the essential degeneration and the loss of its original identity. This marked the end of the life cycle of management as a special type of managerial activity.

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