"Conflict-Free" Socio-Economic Systems

"Conflict-free" Socio-Economic Systems: Perspectives and Contradictions analyses crisis as a component of the growth and development process of economic systems, and its role within the economic cycle. The scientific treatment of the role of crisis in the development of economic systems has traditionally been divided into two conceptual approaches. The first conceptual approach views crisis as a possibility to reconsider the trajectory of economic development of both the national systems and the global economic system overall. However, most scholars, politicians, and experts focus on the second conceptual approach, within which economic crisis is seen as a temporary failure in the work of a system which hinders the process of economic growth and development. This became a precondition for proclaiming a new course of development of the modern national and global economic system oriented at sustainability. This book provides a strong theoretical and methodological basis to sustainable development of economic systems, for researchers and scholars in the area of economic theory and sustainable economics. In locating the role of crisis within socio-economic systems, Popkova advocates the concept of a "conflict-free" system as the landmark of global economic development.

This volume consists of 36 chapters that examine the role of conflict in the development of socioeconomic systems and the connection between conflict and economic crisis, focusing on the sustainable development of economic systems and their conflict-free character. Contributors working at universities and other institutions in Russia discuss conflict in terms of the contradiction of interests of economic subjects during their interaction, the reluctance of economic subjects to adapt to changes, and failure in the socioeconomic system. They describe the theory of complex socioeconomic systems, including causal connections between conflicts, the classification of conflicts, and their bifurcation points; the idea of legal conflict, including economic violation of the law as a conflict and a mediative method of solving legal conflicts; corporate conflicts and their features and legal framework; the growth and development of socioeconomic systems, including the theory of cycles, the effects of crises and their influence on growth and development, and the social and economic effects of crises of economic systems; the similarities and differences between crises and conflicts in socioeconomic systems, the social effects of crises as a manifestation of conflicts in them, and a model of conflict; the role of crises in the development of socioeconomic systems as a result of the 2008 global financial crisis; the classification of socioeconomic systems into phases of crisis, sustainability, and stagnation; the conflict-free nature of socioeconomic systems and the role of regional identity, territorial clusters, signs of conflict-free systems, and criteria for measuring conflict levels; and managing conflict-free systems, including corporate governance.

Elena G. Popkova is a Doctor of Economics, Professor and the President of the autonomous non-profit organization "Institute of Scientific Communications" in Volgograd, Russia (http://archilab.online/) where she organizes various international and national conferences. She is an active researcher who has published in numerous international scientific journals indexed in Scopus (94 publications) and Web of Science and is the author of more than 200 publications in Russian and English.