Stability of regional development systems and factors ensuring it - Leadership and digitalization
Abstract. The article examines the definitions of the phrase "sustainability factors of regional economic systems" often used in the economic science, taking into account the existing array of scientific statements and communications on this topic, characterized by a significant volume and at the same time minor value differences, as well as in relation to global and revolutionary technological changes in the history of human civilization, the expediency of introducing the general concepts of "regional development system" and "sustainability of regional development systems" is substantiated. The stability of systemic regional development is a property of self-organizing systems, and resistance is a property of self-adapting systems. The sustainability of the systemic development of a region under the influence of classical factors - economic, social, environmental and institutional - is a similar assessment. Sustainability cannot be achieved without the use of neoclassical factors - leadership and digitalization, and this is a numerical assessment that is not identical to a set representing statistical indicators over several years; it performs calculations that justify the return of the region from the fluctuation process to normal (calculation of supporting time) or the death of elements, subsubsystems, subsystems of the regional development system. The author`s proposals can be implemented using digital technologies, and first of all, Big Data.
Keywords: region, factors, sustainability, resilience, regional development system, digitalization, leadership.
Highlights:
♦ there is an extensive number of definitions of factors, sustainability, regional economic systems;
♦ the classical composition of the factor in managing regional economic systems is used;
♦ the leadership of introducing the concepts of "system of regional development" and "sustainability of systemic regional development" and the inclusion of classical neoclassical factors is substantiated.
Rimma A. Timofeeva - Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University, Veliky Novgorod, Russia