Production and economic complex as an organizational and legal (corporate) model of association and prospects for its development in Russia

Introduction: the paper is a comprehensive study of the legal problems of creation and operation of industrial and economic complexes. It notes the need to take into account the experience of functioning such associations of economic entities to ensure the social orientation of corporate associations. The purpose of the work is to determine the legal nature of a production and economic complex, a kind of which is the financial and industrial group in modern conditions and to identify the features of its legal capacity in the context of the civil law theory and practice. To achieve the goal, such methods of scientific knowledge as the historical and legal, comparative and formal legal ones were used. Results: the stages of formation and development of production and economic complexes in Russia are considered, their corporate structure is defined, and their features which are general and distinguished from modern types of business associations are revealed. The paper reveals the economic and legal nature of such complexes, their role in the process of cooperation of the national economy. Conclusions: modern corporate enterprises are a kind of production and economic complexes.