Energy use efficiency of Indian cement companies: A data envelopment analysis

Energy Efficiency

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-73

  Mandal, Sabuj Kumar ^a   Madheswaran, S ^b  

^a T A PAI MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE   (India)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Energy use efficiency; Indian cement industry

Indexed keywords

CEMENT INDUSTRY; CEMENTS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ENERGY USE; ENERGY-USE EFFICIENCY; LABOR FORCE; PRODUCTION THEORY; PRODUCTION VOLUMES;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

INDIA;

EID: 78651281609     PISSN: 1570646X     EISSN: 15706478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-010-9081-7     Document Type: Article

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