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In the 20th century, rapid development of information technology led to changes in the economic field. Instead of businesses aimed at their own benefit, there emerged communities of structures, whose integration is inherent in objective necessity: rapidly changing conditions of the economic game require joint efforts in searching for new approaches to attract the consumer. The features of the present stage of development of the global and domestic economies - globalization of economic systems, increasing openness (accessibility) of the markets, limited resources, implementation of constantly updated technologies in business, rapid growth of intercompany cooperation in its various forms, and the current issue of "blurring the boundaries of the company" - necessitate a search for new mechanisms of interaction between companies and firms, as well as between states. The mechanism of functional management, driven to perfection by Max Weber in his theory of rational bureaucracy, is losing its relevance because of the changing conditions in the economic field: linearity of development, management as coercion, preference for stability, hard determinism giving way to non-linearity, openness, complexity, uncertainty, flexibility, and management as self-organization. All these factors are replaced by the corresponding new conditions of the theory of rational self-organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the first part of this paper, it is established that sociology did not react adequately to the global economic crisis. In the second part, views of critically oriented economists on the causes of the crisis are presented. They are used as an introduction to the analysis presented in the third part, which specifies economic, political, technological and cultural conditions that were suitable for transnational capitalist class efforts to adapt the global economic system exclusively to their own interests. Current economic crisis is nothing but an expression of social imbalance that must be overcome if further escalation of the crisis is to be avoided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]