System Approach and the Theory of Control in Management

This article deals with content and essence of the system approach, made by L. Bertalanffy in the middle of the 20-th century, proves harm, coming out from its non-critical use in the economic science, on an example of influence of system attribute «self-regulation on the basis of feedback» on the theory of control in management. The article demonstrates the influence of this system attribute on definition of control, treatment of concurrent control, ideas about objects of assessment in control, control of the processes of external environment, control of the subunits of the firm by other subunits, connection of control with the exposure of new opportunities and participation of managers in exercising direct influence over objects of external environment and other subunits of firm