Nr. 181: Corporate Social Responsibility

Author(s): Nina Poussenkova, Elena Nikitina, Julia S. P. Loe, Elana Wilson Rowe, Emma Wilson, Daniel Fjaertoft
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 181
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2016

This edition has a special focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Firstly, there is an introduction to the research project from which the following articles are drawn. Secondly, Nina Poussenkova and Elena Nikitina outline how the views of current MBA students from the main oil and gas companies are a combination of the Soviet legacy, recollections of the roaring 1990s, the current situational context, and Western attitudes that were transplanted into Russia. Thirdly, Julia S. P. Loe and Elana Wilson Rowe compare how petroleum-related CSR was understood in Murmansk Oblast' (with its shelved Shtokman project) and Nenets Autonomous Okrug (with its decades-long experience with petroleum projects). Fourthly, Emma Wilson and Daniel Fjaertoft compare economic research findings with ethnographic field results to understand how local people in Russia’s Komi Republic assess the direct and indirect economic effects of oil and gas projects and how these are weighed against environmental and social concerns.

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