CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES ACCORDING TO THEIR ECONOMIC STATUS

The problem under consideration in this study is whether economically stronger enterprises, which have more opportunities, are really better at solving social and environmental challenges in the context of corporate responsibility than economically weaker ones. The aim of the article is to substantiate the interaction of agricultural enterprises and explore the levels of corporate social responsibility for individual components of five groups of agricultural enterprises grouped by performance indicators of their economic activities. Methods include statistical grouping with the allocation of five groups of enterprises are determined depending on the results of their economic activity, that is a volume of profitability and its level as indicators of economic efficiency, according to the information base of 9000 medium and large agricultural enterprises in Ukraine, using the method of statistical groupings. The results section represents compared data of the most enterprise groups over the seven-year period and the trends in their corporate responsibility have been estimated. According to the results of the study, agricultural enterprises with a higher level of economic activity didn't differ a lot from the smaller ones in the implementation of socially and environmentally responsible acts.