Constructing and investigating a model of the energy entropy dynamics of organizations

• Main Authors: Alla Bondar, Svitlana Onyshсhenko, Dmitro Vishnevskyi, Olga Vishnevska, Svitlana Glovatska, Andrii Zelenskyi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PC Technology Center 2020-06-01
• Series: Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies
• Subjects: information entropy; free energy; efficiency of energy turnover; organization structure; formation of neg-entropy
• Online Access: http://journals.uran.ua/eejet/article/view/206254

Energy entropy is the "highest" indicator of the state of an organization, developing the ideas of efficiency and value. The integrity of energy entropy implies taking into consideration the level of order in an organization (information entropy) along with the ability to "release" effectively the energy for useful work. Versatility is ensured by the independence on a kind of activity of an organization. The formalization of energy entropy of organizations was proposed. According to the proposed approach, energy entropy is determined by an increase in total energy and its comparison with the "ideal" option; the level of free energy and information entropy that reflects the ability of the organization’s structure to ensure certain results. Incoming and outgoing (free) energy are considered as the main parameters of the organization’s state. Their combination determines the growth of energy, a set of possible combinations – information entropy. The scheme of changes in time of the main "energy parameters" of an organization (total energy, free energy, incoming energy) was identified. Two main variants of energy increase dynamics – uniform growth and growth with acceleration (slowdown) were represented. Experimental studies, which involved considering the most possible variants of dynamics of influencing parameters, were carried out. The effect of different combinations of their dynamics (simultaneous growth/decrease, growth/decrease at different rates) on the dynamics of energy entropy was analyzed. It was established that an increase in a share of free energy does not provide an outflow of energy entropy without reducing a degree of uncertainty of the results expressed in a decrease in information entropy. Conclusions about the necessary dynamics of influencing parameters to ensure the vital activity of an organization according to the energy entropy concept were made