Corporate citizenship: An overview of scientific publications

The negative demographic dynamic observed in Russia, despite the government's efforts to handle it, requires the development and implementation of new, more effective tools that can change the situation. One of these tools is to promote business participation in addressing the country's demographic problems based on the development of ideas and principles of corporate citizenship. The aim of the study is to review and analyze the scientific and research discourse on corporate citizenship with an emphasis on the demographic segment of this discourse. The research methodology includes scientific review of publications on corporate citizenship based on quantitative (scientometric analysis) and qualitative (content-semantic analysis of documents) methods. We reveal that the scientific and research discourse on corporate citizenship, while maintaining a stable scientific significance for a number of years, has been shrinking over recent years. At the same time, it is more widespread in foreign studies. Corporate citizenship is an insufficiently developed concept, it lacks a clear definition, understanding of its essence and determinants. In the demographic sphere, corporate citizenship is not conceptualized. In the course of the analysis, we identify trends in the development of the discourse, and compile a scientometric portrait of Russian publications on this topic. The inability to gain full access to the international citation databases Web of Science and Scopus due to the sanctions imposes certain restrictions on our research regarding the scientific review of the foreign segment of the discourse. From a scientific and theoretical perspective, the significance of the work lies in filling in the lack of scientific reviews in the field of corporate citizenship, raising the issue of conceptualizing this phenomenon and intensifying its research. Practical significance is determined by the possibility of using the findings by other authors dealing with issues of corporate citizenship and related topics. The systematization and conceptualization of this subject area will contribute to a more active promotion of the ideas and principles of corporate citizenship in Russian enterprises, as well as a more active involvement of Russian business in solving Russia's national strategic tasks.