Dialectics of Self-Movement of Resilient Companies in the Economy and Society Post COVID-19: Patterns of Organizational Transformations of Networking Interactions

Introduction

The COVID-19 global pandemic had a shock effect on all spheres of human activities: in technology, in society, in the economic system, etc. In fact, all of a sudden, a situation was formed that was associated with the end of order and the beginning of chaos against the backdrop of increasing uncertainty, negatively affected the existing networking interaction (Prigogine, and Stengers, 1983; Haken, 1977; Arnold, 1975,1979). As a result, the ongoing changes in man-made systems need to be rethought and theoretically re-understood. The dialectical approach (Hegel, 1892; Schelling, 1993; Marx, 1995; Vernadsky, 1998) and system interpretation (Bertalanffy, 1968; Guckenheimer, 1973; Thom, 1974; Hacken, 1977) of the processes of organizing human activity enabled the authors to form a more or less adequate picture of system formation in the economy. The use of the methodological approaches outlined above made it possible to determine the obvious dialectic of interaction between the economy and self-sufficient companies, which are a dialectical pair in the face of the system and its backbone elements. The search for the laws of their complication (Arthur, 2009, 2013) led the authors to the highlighting tectological principles of the organization of networking interactions in the economic systems (Bogdanov, 1934). The treatment of self-sufficient companies (Manyika, at al., 2021; Economist Impact, 2022) as the backbone elements made it possible to consider them as the main drivers of system formation processes (Schumpeter, 1961), which are based on the patterns of change of networking interactions.

Systemic ideas about the complexity of human-created organizations at the macro level predetermined the need to consider them in the processes of static and dynamic changes (Frisch, 1933; Slutsky, 1937; Schumpeter, 1961; Robinson, 1980; Clark, 2007; Pilipenko, 2021; Khosrow-Pour, 2022). The complication of a static system in the economy was mediated by companies that strengthened its integrity and stability through the multiplication of horizontal and vertical structural relationships. The reverse side of the complication of the economic system’s structure became its growing fragility (Minsky, 2008; Taleb, 2007, 2012). It was this characteristic that ultimately predetermined the limit of the complication of the economic system in statics or of its self-organization. In this context, the ability of self-sufficient companies to Schumpeterian “creative destruction” was manifested. They mediated the action of the dialectical laws of unity and struggle of opposites and the transition of quantitative changes into qualitative ones in the processes of self-organization of the economy in statics. Such a theoretical approach allowed the authors to find explanations for the changes in networking interactions that occur in economic systems with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the approach of a static economy to its limit state, beyond which uncertainty grows, was noted by such authors as Roger Bootle (2009), Carmen M. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff (2009), Branko Milanovic (2019), Eric Lonergan, and Mark Blyth (2020), Klaus, Schwab, and Malleret Thierry (2020); World Economic Forum experts (2020, 2020a) and many others.