Social Partnership in the Russian Arctic under the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Social Partnership in the Russian Arctic under the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

DOI: 10.34130/2070-4992-2021-1-4-396

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Toropushina E. E. — PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher at the Department of Social Policy in the North, Luzin Institute for Economic Studies — Subdivision of the Federal Research Centre «Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences», Apatity, Russia, E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

This article presents a research of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on “power-business-society” relations in the social sphere of the regions of the Russian Arctic. The aim of the research was to investigate the practical experience of implementing various mechanisms of social partnership in the social sphere of Russia’s Arctic territories under the new conditions caused by the spread of coronavirus infection. The research involves scientific methods were used: content analysis, logical and comparative. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed all participants in the “power-business-society” triad to rethink the importance of implementing social initiatives, stimulating the development of social partnership between business, government authorities, local communities, reformatting corporate social responsibility programs implemented by business structures, and creating new variations of cooperation. In addition, involving more actors in it. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of applying the results obtained in the practice of initiating and implement-ing social partnership in the Arctic regions, as a tool for achieving sustainable development of local communities and self-development of the Arctic socio-economic territorial systems. The crisis caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic clearly demonstrated all the problems that were inherent in the social sphere of even the most developed countries, but it was in these conditions that the need to develop social partnership and the need for such interaction increased many times, which largely predetermines the importance of strengthening this institute in the Arctic. It is obvious that the exist-ing uncertainty in the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the manifestation of its consequences implies the continua-tion of the study of this area and requires additional scientific research on the impact of social partnership and new mech-anisms for its implementation on the development of the Russian Arctic territories.

Keywords: social partnership, Arctic, COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, social sphere.

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For citation: Toropushina E. E. Social partnership in the Russian arctic under the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Corporate Governance and Innovative Economic Development of the North: Bulletin of the Research Cen-ter of Corporate Law, Management and Venture Investment of Syktyvkar State University, 2021, vol. 1, issue 4. Р. 396—404. DOI: 10.34130/2070-4992-2021-1-4-396 (In Russian).