Author(s): Maja Anđelković,Milan Radosavljević,Aleksandar ANDJELKOVIC / Language(s): English
Issue: 33/2021
The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world on a global level in all segments of life and work. It is accompanied by other crises, such as: fires, floods, earthquakes and all the way to changes at the geostrategic level in the political, military and other segments. All of the above happened and is happening at a time when science and research have reached their highest point, because a greater number of inventions, innovations and other achievements have happened in the last few decades than in the entire history of civilization. Medical science has advanced in all its branches, ie subsystems. Despite that, there was a massive health infection with a large number of human victims. A new virus has emerged, but the old ways of preventive action and crisis management of health infections still remain. The C-19 pandemic had a twofold impact on science and research: positive and negative. The positive impact was manifested in the sphere of rapid invention of the vaccine, ie rapid development of diagnostics. There has been greater integration, but also mobility of experts and scientists in the exchange of scientific information, writing joint papers and joint research on the topic of the pandemic. At the time of the pandemic, reference scientific journals and studies were popularized, the number of papers and studies on the topic of the pandemic increased, some industries such as the pharmaceutical, medical equipment industry, artificial intelligence and robotics experienced progress, etc. Nevertheless, the COVID-19 pandemic has also shown its negative sides. It took a large number of human lives. There has been a prolonged closure of economies, but also of people, with numerous restrictions, prohibitions and human rights violations at the global level. The scope of COVID – 19 and the extent of negative impact should be considered not only until its completion, but also in the long run, because after the health crisis, the following crisis will either appear or deepen: mental, economic, moral, political and other crises. They will no doubt be far more complex and long-term to address. However, the burden of the pandemic crisis was not evenly felt by all countries at the global level, by all structures of society at the national and global level and by all economic branches. Some branches have even prospered in the pandemic, such as the pharmaceutical industry. The pandemic crisis was used to strengthen autocracy as a way of governing nations, under the pretext of caring for the population and protecting the life and health of the population. This paper aims to point out some of the problems in the management of science and research during the pandemic, with special emphasis on medical science, and relations with alternative medicine, private health, but also with non-medical sciences, primarily management, organization and crisis management. The paper also points to the application of new strategic tools in crisis management of the C-19 pandemic, but also to a new view of science as a new productive force, and the strengthening of strategic tools in resolving the pandemic crisis. The paper presents a critical reflection on the C-19 pandemic from the point of view of (non)-medical, ie managerial organizational science and profession. At first glance, this may be a problem, as non-medical professionals are entering the realm of a pandemic that is primarily a medical problem. However, there is no conflict here, nor can there be, because the starting point of the author is that the pandemic is half a medical and the other half a non-medical problem, and that this phenomenon should be considered in a broader context because many innovations of technological and organizational type were created by chance.
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