  The cultural variation of economic activity is wide and multidimensional. In
my presentation I will refer to the analyses of the culture of capitalism
provided by Alfons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner. According to them
there are seven processes and related dilemmas which are important in analyzing
the construction of a cultural system of economy. I will focus only on one of
them, universalism versus particularism. Using the database of Trompenaars and
Hampden-Turner I will show how this dilemma was solved by managers from
different European countries. That will be starting point for my analysis of
universalism-particularism attitudes of respondents of European Social Survey
(ESS). I will be particularly interested in verification of hypothesis on the
place of Poland on the mosaic of European cultures of capitalism.
