THE EMPIRICAL BASIS OF CIVIL RESEARCH: THE METHODOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL LAW-MAKING PRACTICE

and dialectical logic, forecasting). Results: the methodological significance of the practice in the empirical basis of civilized research and the need for a non-109 formal approach to the design of the content of the “empirical base” section, as an essential element of the theological method of the dissertation, are proved. Attention is drawn to the methodological value of socially entrepreneurial law-making and law-enforcement experience of mission-driven corporations, namely, that this practice should be considered as an empirical basis: a) the formation of a new theoretical legal model of corporate governance, as an alternative to the dominant shareholder-driven model; b) substantiation of recommendations on the legalization of the Russian legal form of a corporate entity capable of adequately responding to the challenges of the digital economy. With this approach, a new model of corporate governance becomes not a means of providing profit for its shareholders, but a legal tool protecting the leadership of a corporation aimed at achieving the success of a social, scientific, environmental mission. This advantage gained by top management of a socially useful corporation allows it not to chase profits at any cost, but to focus on the implementation of the mission, which necessitates and the possibility of investing in human capital – the company’s main competitive advantage in the digital economy.