ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ENTERPRISES IN WAR CONDITIONS. RESISTANCE ASSESSMENT AND OPTIMIZATION MECHANISM
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The ongoing war in Ukraine has created unprecedented external challenges for businesses, fundamentally disrupting the organizational structures that support enterprise resilience and continuity. In this context, the relevance of the study lies in the urgent need to develop flexible, adaptive, and decentralized management systems capable of withstanding multidimensional threats. The purpose of this paper is to assess the resistance of enterprises’ organizational structures during wartime and to develop a practical mechanism for their optimization. The object of the study is the organizational configuration of enterprises operating under conditions of armed conflict. A key outcome of the research is the development and application of the four-dimensional ARCA screening model, designed to evaluate the resilience of organizational structures based on four criteria: Adaptability, Reserves, Crisis susceptibility, and Autonomy. This model uses a 0–10 scoring system for each dimension, allowing for quantitative diagnostics and visual representation through radar charts. Empirical testing was conducted by students across enterprises of various sizes and locations. The results indicated that small enterprises scored highest in adaptability (8) but were weakest in reserves (4), while medium-sized firms with foreign capital demonstrated stronger overall resilience with higher scores in reserves (6–7) and autonomy (8). Thus, The ARCA model enabled the identification of structural weaknesses and informed the design of targeted responses to wartime vulnerabilities. Another important result of the study was the development of a five-stage mechanism for optimizing organizational structures, which includes identifying problem areas, assessing their criticality, designing targeted measures (organizational, technological, HR-based), modeling proposed changes, and implementing them with feedback control. This approach provides a structured action algorithm for increasing structural flexibility, decentralization, and operational continuity.
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organizational structure, wartime economy, ARCA model, resilience, enterprise adaptation, management optimization
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