Abstract: Global economic challenges, environmental threats, social instability are bringing to the issue of ensuring the state economic security. Considering this, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) play a key role in strengthening economic stability, social welfare and act as a tool for realizing national strategic interests by increasing the investment attractiveness, stimulating innovative development and reducing social risks. The objective of the article is to substantiate the role and importance of socially responsible activities of SOEs as a factor of strengthening the economic security of the State. The article examines the relationship between the social responsibility of SOEs and the economic security of the state. The role of social responsibility as a factor in ensuring the stability of the economic system, reducing the corruption risks, developing the infrastructure, creating jobs and supporting the environmental security is analyzed. It is determined that SOEs, operating in strategic industries such as energy, transport, mechanical engineering and agriculture, significantly affect the financial, social and innovative components of the economic security.

The attention is focused on the problems of managing SOEs, including low efficiency, a significant level of unprofitability and the lack of the clear social reporting standards. The weaknesses of the management report provided for by the national legislation are outlined, including formalism, a low level of detail and insufficient control over the reliability of data. Ways are proposed to improve the legal regulation of social responsibility through the introduction of the mandatory social reporting standards, increasing the transparency, encouraging responsible enterprises and creating a monitoring system.