Інформаційна сфера: становлення та розвиток економічних досліджень видавничо-поліграфічної галузі України (до постановки питання)

Abstract

The authors, using the example of a science studying the economy of the information sphere and its components, wanted to show how the fundamentalization of science that is purely applied at first glance occurs. This process is based on the growth of the specific weight of its theoretical components, the improvement of the conceptual apparatus, the construction of models for its development, the identification of the laws of its functioning and, as a consequence, the obtaining of new methodological knowledge. A necessary condition for this process is also the availability of the appropriate scientific schools. Analysis of the issues related to the activities of scientific schools should be conducted according to the scheme ‘theory—school—direction—current’, where each of the following components is wider than the previous one. However, researchers do not always clearly adhere to the necessary subordination in terminology: the notion of theories, schools, and directions is often confused and identified. In addition, there is not always an emphasis on the duration and continuity of research teams. In our case, the research is conducted for eighty years. The result of this activity (within the framework of the scientific direction ‘Economic Studies of the Publishing and Printing Industry of Ukraine’) was the emergence of four scientific schools of Professors A. M. Levin, R. M. Mashtalir, P. Iu. Bielienkyi, and Academician M. I. Dolishnyi. An integrated system approach to solving the problems of the publishing and printing industry, automated production management systems, modeling of production systems is far from a complete list of research areas that have important scientific and applied significance.