To date, the promotion of local development of the territorial communities by means of the financial policy tools is one of the priority directions of scientific research not only in Ukraine, but also throughout the world. The article presents the results of the study of the impact of the participatory financing (attraction of the financial resources of community members, central and local budgets and the international donors) on the social capital of the territorial communities of Sumy region on the basis of the results of two phases of the project "Community-based Approach to Local Development", which has been implemented in Ukraine by the United Nations Development Program since 2007. The main purpose of the article is to confirm the hypothesis that the participatory financing contributes to the social mobilization of the community residents, which leads to the activation of the "dormant" potential of collective actions and the desire of people to help themselves, as well as to improve some indicators of social capital. The difference-in-differences method and the multivariate regression analysis were used for the study. According to the results of the study, the characteristics of social capital, such as (anti)paternalism, the presence of traditions in community, involvement in social activities, collective action and cooperation are the most affected by the impact of participatory financing.

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Purpose. The article is devoted to an analysis of the impact of innovative enterprises activity on ensuring the indicators of state economic security. The main emphasize was made on the innovative component analysis of the economic security in Ukraine. Place and role of stimulating innovative activity to achieve sustainable socioeconomic development and improve competitiveness of the economy is analyzed in the article. Methodology. In the article economic security of Ukraine analyzed by using two methodological approach: Methodological Recommendations on calculating the level of economic security of Ukraine, approved by the order of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine and the Global Competitiveness Index. Findings. The authors determined which sectors innovation activity can increase the growth rates of economic security and which state support methods should be used to maximize the growth of innovation activity. The conducted research made it possible to find out that the activation of innovation activity as a factor in the economic security formation of the state, which operates in developed countries, is not used properly in Ukraine. Such trends in innovation development of Ukraine are connected, first of all, with low (least critical) level of science funding by the state (primarily applied character, innovation and technology transfer) and low level of funding by economic entities themselves.

The paper is dedicated to identifying the role of stakeholders in implementing social and environmental responsibility of a company. A list of key stakeholders for corporate social and environmental responsibility is provided in the paper. An organizational and economic system for corporate social and environmental responsibility is described in the paper. The system includes a number of elements: diagnostic block, block of implementing measures of social and environmental responsibility of business, and block of social and economic transformations. The authors determined the interrelations in a system of implementing social and environmental responsibility of companies. Thus, a system of organizational and economic incentives for social and environmental responsibility of a firm is a cycle of mutual influence of corporate social and environmental responsibility and stakeholders.

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