Corporate Social Responsibility Brings Benefits to Business. Research by Olga Kuzina and Marina Chernyshova

International companies engage in social responsibility in order to to improve their reputation, be more competitive, and to gain political benefits and some degree of control over society. In Russia, however, businesses convert social investment into informal privileges granted to them by government, according to a paper by Olga Kuzina, LSES Senior Researcher, Professor of the HSE Department of Economic Sociology, and Marina Chernysheva, postgraduate student at the same department. In details....