The aim of this work is to establish the relationship between the stages in the organizational life cycle, management structure and the structure of the transaction costs of the organization. This article discusses the life cycle stages. Are described the major characteristics of each stage, including the features of the organizational structure of the management. For each stage in the life cycle of the organization is different structure of transaction costs, because there are distinctions of the development priorities of the organization. In this article is analyzing the stages of the life cycle from the point of view of transaction costs. Adjustment of structure and the level of transaction costs are achieved by changing the organizational structure of the management, management methods. These operations will enable the organization to make the most effective use of its resources to achieve the objectives of the organization. For each stage of the life cycle is a specific type of organizational management structure. In the article was done the analysis of transaction cost of the enterprise of food industry of the Russian Federation in phases of the organizational life cycle. Draws conclusions on the causes of changes in their structure. Study of the level and structure of transaction costs the organization allows to do analysis of the effectiveness of the functioning of the organization. This analysis allows seeing bottlenecks in the development of the structure of internal and external communications of the organization. That ultimately gives the opportunity to develop a strategy to improve the efficiency of the organization.

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The activities of any organization linked to transaction costs, which are often of great size. If the organization will be able to lower transaction costs while maintaining performance, this can result in more effective organizational management structure and activities of the organization as a whole. Transaction costs arise because of different interests of the communicating parties, but also because of the uncertainty factor. Because transaction costs was escorted somehow all the functioning of the organization, you must implement their accounting and analysis. This will help to understand the causes of transaction costs and reduce them. But when ones transaction costs are decrease another transaction costs can increase. In order to reduce transaction costs, the need to consider options for the management structure, which would enable the organization to achieve their goals? The various organizational structures of governance have a different structure of transaction costs and a different size of transaction costs. Not to use the methodology transaction cost analysis can lead to unreasonable use of the resources of the organization. Analysis of the transaction cost is not possible without clear classification. In this article, this classification is presented. Transaction costs can be considered as the cost of the resources spent on the transaction. This allows you to calculate the size of transaction costs in the size in a cost equivalent. By use of the methodology which was proposed in this article, were examined the organizations that are located in Russian Federation and works in the petrochemical industry.

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The relevance of the research topic is caused by an increase in the scale of growth of the process of informatization of economy. An essential condition for the effective functioning of business is organization of uninterrupted functioning of system of collecting, processing and storing information. In the context of increasing complexity and dynamics of both the external and internal environment of organization, it increasingly leads to need to use information management systems. This process influences the size and structure of organization’s transaction costs. The problem of optimizing transaction costs in the context of global business informatization was caused by the increasing complexity of social and economic interactions, as well as the increase in the volume and speed of information exchange. In these circumstances, the management of companies should analyze the structure, dynamics and sources of growth of transaction costs. That will allow the most efficient use of the resource potential of organizations. The purpose of this study is to analyze changes in transaction costs in the context of business informatization. This article uses the method of scientific analysis and synthesis. Thus, the article analyzes statistical data on the use of information technologies in domestic companies, as well as data on the economic effect of introduction of information systems. Further, based on the synthesis of the identified trends using the author’s classification of transaction costs, an assessment of the impact of reducing transaction costs from introduction of an information system on performance indicators of organization was carried out. The paper analyzes the level of business informatization in the Russian Federation, analyzes the impact of information technologies on performance of a firm, establishes the relationship between transaction costs and level of business informatization. The research results lead to the following conclusions. The introduction of modern information technologies in activities of organizations leads to decrease in transaction costs by increasing reliability of information database and transparency of organization’s information flows. This allows you to optimize the process of making management decisions in conditions of uncertainty, reduce the cost of doing business and, as a result, increase efficiency of organization.