Author page: Yuri Sidel’nikov

Improving the Processes of Classification and Declassification

DOI: 10.33917/es-6.204.2025.134-143

The article proposes to examine a preliminary version of a program for improving methodological tools for increasing the level of objectivity when making decisions on classifying or declassifying information. The program consists of several stages, which include: conducting preliminary work, including collecting information and solving specially formulated problems, solution of which would facilitate the implementation of these stages; collecting additional information and solving the assigned problems; analyzing the information received and solving the problems that arise; ensuring ongoing monitoring of the implementation effectiveness of the proposed program. A total of 32 such problems are formulated. Furthermore, the authors discuss ways to improve methodological principles and methodological tools in this area. In conclusion, the authors present a plan for future research in the above area.

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Converging Contour within the Framework of Command-Coalition Management at Enterprises

DOI: 10.33917/es-4.202.2025.114-121

At enterprises, various groups have always emerged and will continue to emerge, created on an initiative basis and demonstrating their own management intentions, often having access to an enterprise’s management resources for their implementation. Some of these groups are formalized (for example, trade unions, parties), while others remain informal (for example, adherents of one industrial school).

Consequently, enterprises may be considered as potential objects of multi-loop management, in which the subjects of management are both administrative and command-coalition management groups expressing political and vital activity of the enterprise’s divisions.

According to the works [1–3], development of a multi-level management system will contribute to successful resolution of conflict situations at enterprises and strengthening of their market positions, for example, by creating three fundamental management contours: administrative one, when the subject of management is the enterprise’s administration; command-coalition contour, in which the subjects of management is represented by institutionalized or non-institutionalized management communities of enterprises; and finally converging

one, within the framework of which a certain group, created by the enterprise’s management, carries out coordinated functioning and development of the first two management circuits. Identification and forecasting of such coalition teams within the framework of intracompany management, as well as theoretical and practical solutions regarding the converging management contour at enterprises are necessary to ensure their sustainable development in the context of increasingly frequent socio-economic crises.

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Approaches to Predicting Technology Evolution

DOI: 10.33917/es-1.199.2025.66-73

The article examines the change in ideas about technology from 1772, when Johann Beckmann introduced the term “technology” into scientific use, to the present day. A modern approach to forecasting the technology evolution as a certain implementation of a complex self-developing system is proposed. Comparative analysis of technological and biological evolution is carried out. The ar ticle examines a systemic approach to expert forecasting technology as a separate modern direction, within the framework of which the author proposes its hypershell and dwells on the systemic constituent elements of this shell. Eight directions for future research in the field of technology forecasting are examined.

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