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Modelling the External Economic Environment Instability Impact on the Organizational Flexibility of the Enterprise

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The article proposes the model of the influence of the environment instability on organizational flexibility and performance of the enterprise and empirical testing of it based upon four main assumptions, due to which the interconnection among uncertainty, dynamics and complexity of external economic environment and enterprise’s flexibility is proved; the influence of organizational flexibility on the performance of the enterprise is stated; the basis for resource parameters of flexibility is determined; main factors of reaching high level of performance by the enterprise are discovered.

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Poplavska, Z., Komarynets, S. (2021). Modelling the External Economic Environment Instability Impact on the Organizational Flexibility of the Enterprise. In: Kryvinska, N., Greguš, M. (eds) Developments in Information & Knowledge Management for Business Applications. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 330. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62151-3_1

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