A passion to perform? The PERFORMANCE concept of future managers from Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia

A passion to perform? The PERFORMANCE concept of future managers from Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia

The aim of the study was to investigate the semantic enrichment of the concept of PERFORMANCE in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia. To this end surveys on the basis of lexical and discourse-analytical preparatory work are to be conducted between comparable participant-samples (students of economics). They have the character of a limited cross-sectional study. The results are intended to provide knowledge on how the concept of PERFORMANCE is semantically assigned and “negatively associated” in the examined target groups at a given “time,” which cross-connections are made to other concepts, what significance valence it takes in the structure of cultural values.

Project management: Marion Krause

Partners: Magda Schulmeisterová (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Michael Fleischer (Wroclaw), Irina Pshenichnikova (St. Petersburg)

Duration: 2005-2008

Funding: CEE Erste Bank Grant (Vienna University of Economics and Business)