RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP VISION DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS

The state’s influence on the development of corporate social responsibility in Russia 265
of this problem is the most effectively. In the general case, the cluster analysis is designed
to combine some objects into classes (clusters) so that in one class got the most similar objects,
and the objects of different classes will be the most different from each other. The quantitative
index of similarity is calculated by the specified method on the basis of data that characterize
the objects.
Clustering is performed on the basis of three indicators in 2012, two of which characterize
the level of CSR development:
1) The percentage of the number of companies publishing social reports, in the total number
of companies registered in 2012, %;
2) The rate of growth of the first indicator over the past year, %;
3) GDP in purchasing power parity terms, per capita, $ /people.
As a result of data collection a sample was drawn from 35 data (the sample excluded countries
with a value of first index