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Corporate management and Social Responsibility in Europe (Part 2). Varieties of CSR: the experience of Great Britain and Germany

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S.N. Bolshakov, Leningrad State University named after А.S. Pushkin,St. Petersburg, Russia, Doctor of Economics, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Vice-rector, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

This article examines the crоss-national strategies for implementing the policy of corporate social responsibility. On the example of Great Britain and Germany, the problems of integrating state governance institutions into the policy of implementing public obligations and social responsibility of corporate governance are analyzed. The article analyzes the problems of choosing tools for state regulation of the corporate sphere of business in a liberal economic model, analysis and economic evaluation of these assumptions allows us to state the inevitability of distancing corporations in the UK from the European single economic model.

Keywords: corporate management, public administration, social responsibility, economic regulation, strategic management.

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For citation: Bolshakov S. N. Corporate management and Social Responsibility in Europe (Part 2). Varieties of CSR: the experience of Great Britain and Germany // Corporate governance and innovative economic development of the North: Bulletin of the Research Center of Corporate Law, Management and Venture Capital of Syktyvkar State University. 2018. № 2. P. 60-70.