Professional Associations' Contribution to a New World Order Formation - The Case of Russia

Professional communities are important actors of civil society in most of the countries around the world. Professional in different fields - industries or functions of management - come together, make groups, join each other with different non-commercial goals and boost economic development. Although the relations of government and business from one side and non-profit organizations and non-governmental organizations from the other side differ in the context of different world regions, they must be considered as important stakeholders for the NewWorld Order and they play a unique role contributing to mitigation of the world wide problems - poverty, disease and unemployment. Many Associations made significant efforts to improve the quality of the market in their countries, they provide deeper engagement of business into the local communities, NPOs and other stakeholders. In Russia we have an example of Russian Business Ethics Network which targets compliance education of business and CSR and sustainable development promotion. In Japan we may learn from Japanese Forum of Business in Society founded in 2011.