From hierarchy to flexibility: a new governance model for sustainable development
Abstract
The paper emphasizes the importance of transforming the governance model of the sustainable development system, given the inadequacy of the hierarchical approach in both maintaining the internal balance of the system and ensuring its harmonious development in the interests of future generations, as well as in providing a timely and effective response to current challenges and conditions in relation to other state programs. The purpose of the article is to scientifically define and theoretically substantiate a new approach to building sustainable development management processes based on the experience, principles, and methodologies of flexible management, as a concept for a potential crisis response model for government in processes of recovery and post-war development. The author emphasizes that building a sustainable economy oriented towards new technological structures requires a new human-centered management system that incorporates these principles and is capable of promptly responding to emerging challenges and risks. The author notes that the main key elements in constructing a flexible governance system for sustainable development processes include: the formation of an ideological foundation and a new philosophy in the perspectives on the effectiveness of governance processes, ensuring coherence and quality of feedback, as well as timeliness and impartiality in monitoring the progress of processes. This requires comprehensive analysis that combines the balanced stability of a structured and controlled hierarchical model with the flexibility and adaptability of the new approach to achieve the system’s internal balance. It is essential to prioritize the principle of optimal resource utilization and the state’s ability to reveal its untapped intangible potential, created based on flexible management principles that can both facilitate regenerative processes “here and now” in the ongoing active combat period and ensure the achievement of sustainable development goals in the future. The article reveals the theoretical foundations of defining the phenomenon of flexible governance as a concept for a new model of public-private partnership and management processes within the sustainable development system.
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