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2019, Vol. 5. №2About the authors:
Nikolay O. Vilkov, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Associate Professor, Department of Economic Theory and Applied Economics, University of Tyumen; eLibrary AuthorID, nvilkov@mail.ruAbstract:
The growing connection of people’s lives with each other and Nature requires the development of ways to express these processes in scientific terms.
The scientific novelty of the proposed work lies in consideration of economic activity as a manifestation of a special form of energy in the series of natural and social forms of movement that form the Noosphere, and on this basis the representation of the system of needs of the economic entity.
The aim of the study is to find the structure of mapping the internal energy of economic entities in the mode of their consumption on the basis of modification of A. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
The research methods are based on the methodology of Thermomechanics, General Physics and Systems theory, including the allocation of internal and external energy of systems and the concept of emergence.
The analysis of the system of needs proposed by A. Maslow allowed us presenting the structure of the needs of an economic entity as an integral image of the system of their motives, reflecting three key forms of energy of the society: spiritual, status, and biological, as an image of consumption arising from the self-actualization of the economic entity, forming its emergence or system properties. It is shown that in the process of self-realization, that is, the activity in the outside world, the economic entity acts as an integral system that implements its system of motives, the elements of which are the needs.
The main conclusion is that the integrity of the economic entity is formed by its spiritual energy, which constitutes the leading motive of its activity.
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