Corporate resilience, financial strategies and patterns of inclusive growth for companies in BRICS+ countries

Objective: 

To identify corporate governance models and financial decision-making practices within BRICS+ countries that ensure business resilience to structural crises and enable high corporate performance in environments of elevated uncertainty.

Research Tasks:

1. Systematize corporate governance models and financial decision-making practices employed by companies in the BRICS+ group of countries.

2. Develop a comprehensive set of metric indicators for assessing business resilience to structural crises and heightened uncertainty for companies operating in emerging markets.

3. Design the architecture for a database of Russian companies, containing medium- and long-term corporate financial information, data on corporate governance, as well as practices related to digital transformation and ESG transformation.

4. Automate the collection of up-to-date data on corporate governance and decision-making practices in Russian companies from open sources by leveraging digital technologies.

5. Compile a dataset on corporate governance and decision-making practices in Russian companies for the period 2004-2024.

6. Conduct surveys and in-depth interviews within major Russian companies to identify patterns of business resilience.

7. Identify common growth points and characteristics of the transition to effective business resilience patterns in the short and long term for BRICS+ countries, with analysis across industrial sectors and time periods.

8. Determine the characteristic common properties and distinctive features of the national models for financial decision-making cycles and corporate governance practices in the BRICS+ countries.

9. Establish a regularly updated repository containing information on risks, financial decision-making practices, corporate governance, board of directors' practices, and company resilience within BRICS+ countries, disaggregated by industry and time period.

10. Formulate recommendations for medium and large companies in emerging markets on optimizing financial decision-making and improving the quality of corporate governance to enhance business resilience.