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Operational Eco‐efficiency: Comparing Firms' Environmental Investments in Different Domains of Operation

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  • Roland W. Scholz
  • Arnim Wiek

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Eco‐efficiency has been established as a crucial concept for corporate environmental management. Most approaches deal with eco‐efficiency on the level of the company or the product. However, given that companies have special budgets earmarked for environmental operations or investments, the question arises as to which operation within which domain is the most eco‐efficient. This article presents an approach to supporting these decisions by calculating eco‐efficiency on the operational level. The procedure is demonstrated using a case study of the Swiss National Railway Company. Investments and operations in the domains of energy production, landscape and nature conservation, noise protection, and contaminated soil remediation are assessed and compared. Decision‐makers seeking an eco‐efficient corporate investment policy will find, in this concept, a guideline for prioritizing various domains of operation as well as the operations within a domain.

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  • Roland W. Scholz & Arnim Wiek, 2005. "Operational Eco‐efficiency: Comparing Firms' Environmental Investments in Different Domains of Operation," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University, vol. 9(4), pages 155-170, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:inecol:v:9:y:2005:i:4:p:155-170
    DOI: 10.1162/108819805775247963
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    1. Scholz, Roland W. & Wellmer, Friedrich-Wilhelm, 2015. "Losses and use efficiencies along the phosphorus cycle. Part 1: Dilemmata and losses in the mines and other nodes of the supply chain," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 105(PB), pages 216-234.
    2. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Stergiou, Eirini, 2020. "European industrial eco-efficiency under different pollutants' scenarios and heterogeneity structures. Is there a definite direction?," MPRA Paper 98583, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Stergiou, Eirini, 2019. "Examining eco-efficiency convergence of European Industries.The existence of technological spillovers within a metafrontier framework," MPRA Paper 94286, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Wursthorn, Sibylle & Poganietz, Witold-Roger & Schebek, Liselotte, 2011. "Economic-environmental monitoring indicators for European countries: A disaggregated sector-based approach for monitoring eco-efficiency," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(3), pages 487-496, January.

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