Voronov, V. V., & Nikonov, V. A. (2025). Small businesses in Moscow (part 2). Tyumen State University Herald. Social, Economic, and Law Research, 11(1), 6–19. https: ...

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Abstract

Socio-economic changes in Russian society dictate the need to study not only theoretical, but also practical problems of adaptation and activity of small businesses in the interests of the country and its regions. The relevance of the study is explained by the need to analyze the specifics of small business development using the example of the Moscow metropolis as a leader among Russian regions in the field of small business. The scientific novelty of the study is the assertion that qualitative new positive changes require a long period of development of the modal consciousness of the main participants of small business and a favorable external and internal environment of entrepreneurship. The influence of various factors on the processes of small business development is justified from the standpoint of a neo-institutional methodology, which assumes an increased role of the human factor as the main economic resource. The empirical basis of the study was the sociological surveys conducted by the authors (quantitative and qualitative) among the main participants of small business in Moscow over the past ten years. As a result of the study of small business reference groups (confirmed by the results of other sociological studies), it was revealed that government regulation and support for small businesses need significant changes to increase the social responsibility of all its actors. The management of socio-economic processes of small business development in Moscow also needs to be transformed from a position of strengthening social justice for the activities of individual entrepreneurs and other economically active citizens.