Abstract:

The research we present in this paper aims at describing several “external” serviceable effects that the activities of certain companies generate, as related to their main business goals (“internal” represented by their income and productivity). In this purpose, ratios and logarithmic sums were calculated, in a specific way: we applied a reinterpretation of certain usual data related to productivity. The data we use describe some aspects that refer to the recorded effects of the economic activities concerning five important international automotive companies. The concern in this research focused only on the number of jobs created by the companies (taking into account particularly less developed countries) and on production (in physical and value units). The indicators calculated in uncommon approach capture information additional to those that the usual productivity calculations have attention to. Interesting differences between the companies’ result, and also differences between the picture resulted from the common approach on productivity indicator and the new aspects captured by the indicators applied in our paper with respect to the concerned companies' contribution in the benefit of their environment. The research results highlight that productivity and profitability are not always entirely consistent with such “external” serviceable results