Social entrepreneurship as a resource for managing socio-economic issues in the north-caucasus region

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the socio-economic development of the North Caucasus Federal District, which is referred to as a problematic region by some parameters. The authors show that innovative transformations in the Russian economy shift the management center of regional development to the territorial level, which regards the socio-cultural features of the ethnic economy of each region. The current situation in the North-Caucasus regionis characterized by a high level of social tension, acute socio-economic problems, the settlement hereof is possible on owing to the potential of social entrepreneurship. The situation in the North-Caucasus region is presented in a broad socio-cultural context, which made it possible to identify some barriers (administrative and managerial, economic, social, ethnocultural) preventing the development of socially-oriented business practices