INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AS AN ANTI-ENTROPY MECHANISM OF ORGANIZATION: FROM AN ELITE MANAGEMENT MODEL TO A DISTRIBUTED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE

A. Roysen; Tamara Musienko

doi:10.61260/2218-130X-2026-2-50-64

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INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AS AN ANTI-ENTROPY MECHANISM OF ORGANIZATION: FROM AN ELITE MANAGEMENT MODEL TO A DISTRIBUTED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE

Published in Scientific and analytical journal «Vestnik Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia» · Volume 2026, Issue 2 · Pages 50–64 · Rubric: INFORMATICS, COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND CONTROL

DOI: https://doi.org/10.61260/2218-130X-2026-2-50-64

Received: 23.03.2026 Accepted: 24.04.2026 Published: 01.07.2026

Authors

A. Roysen

Tamara Musienko

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A. Roysen

Academic degree: candidate of physical and mathematical sciences

the Leading and National Research Nizhigorodsky State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod

Association of radio-electrophysicists general director · Russian Federation

Tamara Musienko

Academic degree: doctor of political sciences ; candidate of historical sciences

Science rang: docent

Saint Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia professor · department of management and economics · Russian Federation · Saint-Petersburg

Federal research sociological center of the Russian academy of sciences of the Sociological institute of the Russian academy of sciences associate researcher · Russian Federation · Saint-Petersburg

Petrovsky academy of sciences and arts full member · Russian Federation · Saint-Petersburg

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ABSTRACT

This article presents a systems-based study of the transformation of management models in the context of the exponential growth in complexity of the global information environment, which is causing a crisis in traditional hierarchical structures. The purpose of the article is to develop a theoretical and methodological approach to the interpretation of innovative organizational culture as an anti-entropic mechanism for ensuring the controllability of complex systems and to theoretically justify the transition to a distributed cognitive management architecture. The study is based on a synthesis of cybernetic and systems approaches. The paper applies Shannon's concept of information entropy and W.R. Ashby's law of requisite variety to analyze the cognitive limitations of centralized hierarchical structures.It has been established that the crisis of modern organizations is largely associated with the limited processing capacity of centralized cognitive control loops under conditions of increasing external and internal complexity. It has been shown that maintaining controllability requires expanding the system’s regulatory variety, including through the development of transitional forms of coordination based on a combination of formal regulation and distributed participation. A conceptual model has been developed for the evolution of a management system from a closed elite structure through an institutionally ordered transitional form to a distributed cognitive architecture, in which innovative organizational culture serves as an anti-entropic mechanism for aligning intellectual resources. The role of artificial intelligence as an additional cognitive module that enhances the organization’s coordination and adaptation capabilities has been substantiated. For the first time, innovative organizational culture is considered not as a psychological motivational resource, but as a structural mechanism for counteracting entropy. The study formulates a concept for the transition from an elite management model to a distributed cognitive architecture, which increases the organization's resilience to extreme information overload.

KEYWORDS

managerial entropy, organizational complexity, law of requisite variety, systemic sustainability, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, hybrid intelligent systems, internal symmetry

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A. Roysen, Musienko T. V.. "INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AS AN ANTI-ENTROPY MECHANISM OF ORGANIZATION: FROM AN ELITE MANAGEMENT MODEL TO A DISTRIBUTED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE." Scientific and analytical journal «Vestnik Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia» 2026.2 (2026): 50-64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61260/2218-130X-2026-2-50-64.

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Roysen A. M., Musienko T. V. (2026). INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AS AN ANTI-ENTROPY MECHANISM OF ORGANIZATION: FROM AN ELITE MANAGEMENT MODEL TO A DISTRIBUTED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE. Scientific and analytical journal «Vestnik Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia», 2026(2), 50-64. https://doi.org/10.61260/2218-130X-2026-2-50-64

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A. Roysen, Musienko T. V.. "INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AS AN ANTI-ENTROPY MECHANISM OF ORGANIZATION: FROM AN ELITE MANAGEMENT MODEL TO A DISTRIBUTED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE." Scientific and analytical journal «Vestnik Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia» 2026, no. 2 (2026): 50-64. https://doi.org/10.61260/2218-130X-2026-2-50-64.

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