FACTORS OF FORMATION AND FEATURES OF BUSINESS ETHICS IN MODERN RUSSIAN SOCIETY
Authors:   Tomsk Forestry College, Fateeva Margarita S. 
Published: December 2024

The question of business ethics as influencing factor for effectiveness of management activities has been attracted attention of researches for decades. Importance of this question can be seen in working process of any organization, joint venture activities, in scientific, technical and production cooperation, in business mergers and takeovers, and in transnational corporations’ work. Business ethics is extremely important in partnerships during periods of transitional economy. The goal of this article is a research of formation factors specialties of business ethics in modern Russian society. In this context we have following tasks: • Overview of specialized literature about business ethics; • Definition of historical context in formation process of features of business ethics in modern Russian entrepreneurship; • Highlighting the sum of reasons for violations of business ethics by entrepreneurs; • Researches of possible ways to solve the problems of modern business ethics in Russia. The significance of this work is adding new actual information in theoretical database, as well as inclusion new experience in previous researches and receiving new data on problem. The set of research methods: empiric (gathering information from different sources, observation), theoretical (analysis, synthesis, modeling, classification, generalization etc). The specifics of business communication in Russia is largely determined by the features of its historical path and socio-economic development. Post-soviet economy has factors, that providing negative influence on formation of business ethics: flaws in legislation, instabilities in economy and its transitional character, high level of corruption and criminality. However, thanks to gradual learning from western countries by entrepreneurs, there is a tendency for improving of social responsibility of Russian business. In general, situation in sphere of business ethics in Russia can be characterized as a difficult search of new effective forms in business cooperation that can be adequate to demands of modern society. According to results of work it’s possible to say that the future of business ethics and business culture in Russia can be decided by clue factors like: • Real state legal policy; • Self organization of business society; • Education system for entrepreneurs that can produce business societies. These elements form a development of business ethics on micro- and macro- levels. In this way, the efficient formation of high level culture in business relationships can be decided by: • Quality of the state machine – its competency, responsibility, efficiency and incorruptibility; • Level of culture in organization, as main factor of its profitable and qualitative activity. Economical growth and prosperity depends on intensiveness of innovation and entrepreneurship, on efficient motivation of people, which provides these processes, on their skills and creativity in business. It’s important to admit that realization of these tasks needs institutional and sociocultural background, that can stimulate innovative and creative behavior. Business rivalry also plays a key role in forming these factors, though market mechanisms are not necessary to be the only ones to be considered. And while rivalry can be marked as external stimulator, business cultural and ethics should be meant as much more important internal one.