Technology, Society, and Conflict

Elena G. Popkova, PhD, is Professor of Economics and Leading Researcher for the Centre for Applied Research and Chair of “Economic policy and public-private partnership” of Moscow State Institute of International Relations, MGIMO University, Russia.Manas Chatterji is Professor of Management and Adjunct Professor in Economics at the Asian and Asian-American Studies Program at Binghamton University, State University of New York, Manas is also Guest Professor at Peking University, China, Visiting Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, China, and Distinguished Professor in Poznan University, Poland.

• Introduction: Technological Inequality as a Source of Conflicts in Digital Development and the Advantages of the Economic and Legal Approach to Their Resolution; Elena G. Popkova Chapter 1. Technological Inequality as a New Form of Economic Systems’ Differentiation in the Conditions of Digital Development. The Economic and Political Conflict of Modern Time; Elena G. Popkova and Anastasia A. Sozinova Chapter 2. Unequal Distribution of Technologies in Entrepreneurship: Business Conflicts in Digital Competition and Opportunities for Conflict Management; Tatiana N. Litvinova Chapter 3. Technologies as the Key Resources of Modern Regions: Digital Inequality and Solutions for Technological Conflicts in the Regional Economy; Pavel A. Kalinin, Alexey V. Tolmachev, Svetlana A. Tikhonovskova, and Platon A. Lifanov Chapter 4. Technological Discrimination of Consumers of Goods Under the Conditions of Digital Development: The Essence of Selling Conflict, Its Manifestations, and Perspectives of Overcoming; Irina I. Saenko, Nadezhda K. Savelyeva, Elena A. Lysova, and Victoria N. Ostrovskaya Chapter 5. Technological Leap amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and in the Post-Pandemic Period: Digital Deprivation of Services, Social Contradictions and Conflict Management; Anastasia A. Sozinova, Elena N. Makarenko, Elena Yu. Zolochevskaya, and Evgeny N. Tishchenko Chapter 6. Technological Discrimination of Employees Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and in the Post-Pandemic Period: Labour Conflicts of Express Digitalization and Their Solutions; Irina S. Bagdasaryan, Andrey G. Golovko, Emil E. Barinov, and Mikhail Yu. Ponezhin Chapter 7. Conflicts of Digital Development’s Sustainability and Resolving Them Through the Balance of Social, Ecological and Economic Interests During Technological Progress; Timofey Yu. Cherepukhin, Nadezhda K. Savelyeva, Angelina M. Kovalenko, and Olga B. Ivanova Chapter 8. Monitoring of Technological Inequality in the Modern World Economy: Assessing the Scale of the Global Conflict and Scenarios for Its Development Depending on Conflict Management; Anastasia A. Sozinova, Natalia G. Vovchenko, Elena D. Kostoglodova, and Stanislav A. KhapilinChapter 9. Gender Conflict as a Factor of Global Technological Inequality: Modelling and Conflict Management Through the Analysis of Women’s Participation in Science; Irina M. Khil, Albina A. Chuprova, Gyulnaz E. Adygezalova, and Arina S. Chueva Chapter 10. Modelling of Conflict in the Labour Market in Under the Conditions of Automatization Based on Robots, Big Data and AI: the Specifics of Technological Inequality of Countries and Conflict Management; Konstantin V. Vodenko, Irina S. Bagdasaryan, Daria O. Tyurina, and Galina B. Vlasova Chapter 11. Conflict of Traditions and Innovations as a Source of Global Technological Inequality: Social Consequences of the Innovative Development of the Economy and the Basics of Conflict Management; Alexey V. Tolmachev, Olesya A. Meteleva, Evgeniy B. Luparev, and Elena V. Epifanova Chapter 12. Technological Inequality as a Barrier to the Creation of New “Markets of Tomorrow”: the Conflict of International Trade and the Promising Directions of Conflict Management; Adam U. Albekov, Svetlana S. Galazova, Ruslan G. Nepranov, and Svetlana A. Litvinova Chapter 13. Technological Inequality as a Barrier to Developing a Socially-Oriented Market Digital Economy: International Experience and Conflict Management Through the Development of Social Entrepreneurship; Sergey A. Dyakov, Irina A. Kislaya, Tatiana V. Makarenko, and Anastasia I. Smetanina Chapter 14. Technological Inequality at the Level of the Regional Economy and the Economic and Legal Approach to Conflict Management in the Field of Digital Development: A Case Study on the Example of Russian Regions; Alexey V. Tolmachev, Elena V. Karanina, Yuri A. Kolesnikov, and Alla V. Kiseleva Chapter 15. Integration Mechanisms as Sources of Overcoming Technological Inequality and Overcoming the Conflict of Business Interests in the Digital Economy: Clusters, Special Economic Zones, Technology Parks and PPP; Anna K. Lutoshkina, Valentina V. Koschey, Tatiana V. Epifanova, and Alexey N. Pozdnyshov