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To Harvest Green Business, Feed Eco Incentives to the Decision Makers

May 7, 2012 1 Comment

Incentive-based pay isn't new; it's been around for centuries. Ship captains transporting prisoners from England to Australia were once rewarded, not on passenger counts, but on how many survived the journey. Nowadays with major companies, it's usually linked to financial performance. But unless companies begin to connect compensation to sustainable environmental and social performance, they will ...

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Productivity is probably the main keyword in growth theory. Expressed as a mathematical function it describes the proportion between increases in output per input unit. Obviously there is a close connection to the input output analysis, mainly developed by the economist Wassily Leontief. A growth in productivity, a essential precondition for economic success, can be achieved by more efficient work process flows. Transfering this into target system increasing productivity is the overall target with a growth in efficiency as a measure to achieve this objective. In this context I would like to...

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