Corporate social responsibility of the enterprises of the oil refining complex

Over the past quarter century, the idea of corporate social responsibility has become firmly embedded in the management activities of Russian companies. At the same time, the flagships have become mining and processing oil and gas enterprises, whose production activities can have a significant impact on the environment and human health. The article presents the main milestones in the development of corporate social responsibility practices of business and key theoretical concepts of scientists who comprehend this phenomenon. Based on a secondary analysis of empirical sociological data, cognitive practices of perception of the social role of business by the public consciousness of Russians are presented, and the ideas of Russian citizens about the priority of social business projects are compared with the declared elements of social policy of the leading economic entities of the oil industry. Recommendations on the development of hybrid regulation of corporate social policy are proposed.