COMPREHENSIVE EVALUTION OF THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IMPLEMENTATION AS A SOCIOECONOMIC PHENOMENON

Abstract

The article is devoted to a topical scientific and practical problem to increase opportunities for diversified and focused empirical analysis of the social responsibility implementation in Ukraine as a general public socioeconomic phenomenon, not limited by corporate-governance context. The author substantiated the lack of analytical resources available in scientific literature and in practice to solve the problem. The author formulated the conceptual bases of this methodological scheme, which include: 1) fundamental theoretical and economic substantiation of directions of evaluation within the paradigm of social economy as a field of scientific knowledge; 2) informativeness of nationwide assessment and, at the same time, international comparability of selected indicators; 3) comparability of these indicators over time and its' forward-looking nature; 4) laconism of indicators; 5) forming and structuring a system of indicators by allocating specific groups of indicators for analysis of behaviorally-individual manifestations of social responsibility and for analysis of social (mutual) such manifestations. In the first group of indicators assessment is carried out using sociological and statistical indicators, as well as describes the individual behavioral attitudes of social responsibility (honesty, loyalty, etc.). The second group of indicators uses expert and statistical data, thus reflecting a particular aspect of the quality of mutual relations between economic actors (degree of freedom, trust and solidarity in their relationship). This group combines the following three types of indicators: 1) humanitarian; 2) economic; 3) socio-managerial. Given such a configuration, the system of indicators is designed to assess as the internal characteristics of economic actors from the standpoint of social responsibility, and the quality of their external participation in the functioning the proper systems of the social end economic relations. Using this methodological basis, there has been proposed in the article the list of specific indicators using publicly available international statistical databases, as well as involving the public developments of reputable international analytical agencies.