The Era of Digitalization: Philosophical, Social, and Managerial Factors

Today, significant efforts of companies are aimed at collecting and processing information for commercial purposes (using Big Data), assessing consumer choices and behavior (Khayrullina in Bulletin USTU Science Education Economics Series of Economics 4 2004 [5]); Modern Decision Making Technologies in the Digital Economy (Proceedings of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference of Students Graduate Students and Young Scientists, Yurga Institute of Technology, Publishing House of Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, p. 341, 2018 [7]). Meanwhile, it’s arouse the great interest how the management methodologies were transformed (for example, with the implementation of Agile and Scrum) by project teams and labor relations, the process of making managerial decisions and leadership in online, in geographically distributed cross-functional teams and which areas besides market relations and how digitalization has transformed. A study of materials on this subject in open Russian and foreign sources showed that this problem has not been studied enough and is presented only by couple of studies, the most significant of which can be considered only two authors: Sara Pérez-Soler and Savina T.N. The novelty of the study as a whole and this article as a presentation of some of its results consists, in contrast to other studies, in a comprehensive (philosophical, social and managerial aspects) study of the transformation of decision-making processes, social communications and organizational behavior. The article presents the results of a three-year empirical study of the team of authors on the transformation of social, philosophical and managerial aspects of managerial decision-making, leadership and communication under the influence of digitalization. The information base of the article was Russian and foreign studies in the field of management theory and practice, personal observations of authors and the results of an experiment conducted by the authors. The research methodology is based on the consistent application of empirical methods (monitoring teams and leaders), analysis, synthesis, generalization, experiment (to summarize the results of observations of small groups and teams), retrospective analysis (research on changes in society’s attitudes to digital technologies).