ADAPTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER SCHOOL AS COMPLEX ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SYSTEM
Authors of this article have revealed backgrounds for developing methodological fundamentals of a system for higher school development. Objective function of adaptive development system is determined as providing self-preservation and development of organization for a long period, providing its dynamic stability independently from external environment’s conditions.Performed analysis of main approaches to organizations’ management, which belong to educational system, has shown that there is not a commonly accepted methodology, which allows implementing full-value control mechanism for adaptive development in organizations of this system.Organization as complex adaptive system is constantly able to correct its own relationship with external environment and to interact purposefully with it. This assumes not only internal self-organization, but purposeful transformation of external sphere with aim to create favorable conditions for its development growth. From this perspective higher school is a meaningful, multipurpose system that has heterogeneous external and internal tasks, separate subtasks of specific subsystem. On the basis of system approach institution of higher education is a coherent social and economic system. On one side higher school as social organization has ability to adaptation, tendency to minimize external impacts by developing adaptive measures and reactions. In this context university is characterized by such system properties as: complexity, openness, dynamism, emergency, coevolution, and adaptability. On other side higher school as economical subject, fully functional market insider, which acts according to market rules, economy rules, is a subsystem of economical system; it cooperates with its other elements, tends to transfer its own economic system to optimal condition considering it as balancing state.