Corporate Social Responsibility Impact on Foreign Direct Investment Practices of Russian Multinational Corporations

Settles A.

Russian multinational enterprises (MNE) expanded widely in the late 1990s through the summer of 2008 at the onset of the global financial crisis of 2008. The emerging market MNEs have now become a subject of intensive study with a particular focus on the actions and behaviors of firms from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). This paper attempts to flesh out the reputational and corporate social responsibility (CSR) aspects of this internationalization process. The paper finds that in select cases the reputation of a Russia MNE does play a role in their activities and that these emergent firms recognize host country stakeholders as an audience for concern when conducting OFDI.

Keywords: корпоративная социальная ответственность, ТНК, foreign direct investment, прямые иностранные инвестиции, ксо, corporate social responsibility, БРИК, транснациональные корпорации, transnational corporations, multinational corporations, многонациональные корпорации, многонациональные предприятия, МНП

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Кн. 2. , М.: Издательский дом ГУ-ВШЭ, 2010.