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| Author: | Petters, J. Müller, B. |
| Title: | "Profit": A new key concept in Russia and the Czech Republic. Parallels and differences |
| Journal: | Journal for East European Management Studies (JEEMS)
2004 : VOL 9:2, p. 190-209 |
| Index terms: | Communication Linguistics Languages Transition economies Czech Republic Russia Eastern Europe |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article describes how the concepts, i.e. people's knowledge and attitude, connected to the Russian and Czech words for profit (hereafter as: p. / ps.) have changed during the transformation after 1989. In the socialist period, capitalist p. maximization is stereotypically damned whereas socialist p. remains rather an internal matter of the enterprises. In the 1990ies, both the ps. of particular enterprises and the general notion of p. become a public matter. In specialized and newspaper texts p. is endorsed as a motivation for people to work and the driving economic force. In Czech spoken discourse people are often skeptical towards the notion of p. |
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