State Pressure Motivates Most Corporate Giving

State Pressure Motivates Most Corporate Giving: "State Pressure Motivates Most Corporate Giving
By Maria Levitov
Staff Writer

Russian businesses say that government pressure is the main reason for their involvement in social projects, according to a recent survey by the United Nations Development Program, the Russian Managers Association and the Expertiza think tank.

75 percent of businesspeople identified 'administrative pressure from the authorities' as the main incentive for supporting charitable causes, according to the poll of 210 businesspeople, government representatives and researchers."