Assessment of the potential of large business’ participation in the socio-economic development of the Arctic region

The article deals with the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of large corporations and studies its role in the life of local communities in Russia’s Arctic regions. The authors summarize some foreign and domestic theoretical studies and propose a classification of CSR forms and development stages. The obtained theoretical data serves as the basis for the analysis of CSR at the largest mining enterprises of the Murmansk Oblast, which is presented in the article

Keywords

corporate social responsibility, mining and industrial corporations, local communities, arctic region