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Evolution of scientific concepts of change management in the activities of industrial enterprises

Zubko O. V.,
PhD candidate,
ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6079-7158
e-mail: alexzubko87@gmail.com
National University “Zaporizhzhya Polytechnic”, Zaporizhzhia

Citation Format
Zubko O. V. Evolution of scientific concepts of change management in the activities of industrial enterprises. Management of Economy: Theory and Practice. Chumachenko’s Annals: collection of scientific papers / Institute of Industrial Economics of the NAS of Ukraine. Kyiv, 2025. P. 287-305. https://doi.org/10.37405/2221-1187.2025.287-305 

Language
 Ukrainian

Resume
The article is devoted to a theoretical study of contemporary approaches to the genesis of basic concepts and categories, concepts and theories of change management in retrospect during 1970-2025. The use of a complex of scientific research methods – morphological and structural-logical, qualitative and quantitative, bibliometric approaches – ensured a multi-level analysis of the phenomena and processes of change management in an enterprise. Clustering was carried out by content analysis of keywords and their subsequent semantic grouping according to theoretically similar areas. The systematisation of 507 keywords made it possible to identify 28 thematic clusters that structure the main areas of research on organisational change. This made it possible to form the author’s conceptual periodisation of change management according to five approaches: classical managerial, behavioural/psychological, strategic-structural, cultural-social, and integrative-sustainable.

Keywords
concepts, management, change, organisational change, industrial enterprise.

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Received: 02.10.2025
Accepted: 03.11.2025
Published: 29.12.2025