New factors of Russian sustainability for business in modern conditions

About the authors:

Egor M. Osipov, Dr. Sc. (Socio.), Professor, Department of Sociology of Management, Faculty of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Yulia V. Mankevich, Applicant, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Researcher, Federal Institute of Industrial Property, Moscow, Russia

jul@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/ 0000-0003-1316-2626

Abstract:

The Sustainable Development Agenda, despite the Russian turbulence, remains in the trend of Russian business. Following the emergence of new geopolitical and economic conditions, new mechanisms for sustainable business development in Russia are being introduced into Russian reality, which are considered as factors of growth and further development. This study aims to highlight the topic of sustainable business development in new geopolitical and economic conditions. New sustainability factors for Russian business are formulated; the existing processes are characterized; based on the actual material, using interview data and a sociological survey, new sustainability factors are analyzed in terms of their impact on the success of implementing ESG practices in the business environment. In the process of achieving these goals, the methods of scientific knowledge were used: analysis and synthesis. The study used methods of sociological research, survey data, and expert assessments. The identified range of tasks allowed not only to trace the progress of the implementation of the Agenda in Russia, but to assess the degree of ESG transformation of Russian business, and also point to a mental transition in the perception of the topic of ecology and the nature of the environmental component presence in Russian business.

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