Beyond government interventions, tourism operations, NGOs and premium market revenues can all be structured to promote profit from conservation.
Based on the definitions of the variables used to express cultural traits by House et al. (2004), we can assume that societies with high values for performance orientation (see definition in Table 1) should be associated with higher opportunity entrepreneurship levels, given that they promote profit and performance improvement in their economies.
A strange claim since shareholders have the reputation to be a docile bunch that will go along with any proposal and policy a BOD recommends, especially if the initiatives are promoting profit-making.
The North American business model, seen at its most grotesque at Manchester United, where the Glazer family is systematically siphoning income from the club, has built-in obsolescence, since it is dictated by the bloodless nature of a franchise system, which promotes the profit motive over such inconveniences as promotion and relegation.
Sources at the Commonwealth Foundation, which promotes non-profit organisations in former British colonies, said the Sri Lankan government had attempted to "take over and control" events it had planned.
Those so eager to scapegoat rap may also want ask themselves who owns the record labels, TV and radio stations that are so happy to promote and profit from a particular image of black youth?
After enduring two days of talks in which the Templeton Foundation came under the gun as smudging the line between science and faith, Charles L. Harper Jr., its senior vice president, lashed back, denouncing what he called "pop conflict books" like Dr. Dawkins's "God Delusion," as "commercialized ideological scientism" — promoting for profit the philosophy that science has a monopoly on truth.
However cultural differences and local heritages are being actively maintained by people seeking to maintain their local ways of life, by governments seeking to preserve or invent national identities, and by tourism and heritage industries which promote and profit from spatial and temporal difference.
"It is not acceptable to us that Airbnb actively promotes and profits from deliberate breaches of our leases, and does so in utter disregard of the disrespectful and unsafe situations created for our full-time residents and their families," Aimco CEO Terry Considine said in a statement.
Hiding evidence is only one tactic Pharma uses to illegally promote and profit from medication.
