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

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