In this special volume, the articles mainly focus on investigations of technical innovations and policy interventions for improved energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction in a wide diversity of industrial, construction and agricultural sectors at different scales, from the smallest scales (firm or household), cities, regional, to national and global scales.
"Some small-scale firms will not be able to survive and they will have to lay off the workers from their jobs," Mr. Wijetilleke said.
He wanted to know why certain industries, such as the car industry, feature only a few major corporate players while others have numerous small-scale firms.
Meanwhile, the share of LTC is almost the same between a state-owned firm and nationwide firm, even though the large-scale-firm group has a double score of share comparing with the small-scale-firm group.
According to the group analysis, large-scale firms are more efficient than small-scale firms.
Thus, we can say the trends of TFPCPT and TECHCHCPT are significantly different between large-scale firms and small-scale firms.
We conduct a double-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation experiment with a random sample of 260 small-scale firms in the region around Hyderabad.
Developers of all sizes from independent, small-scale firms to large, publicly traded companies are building infill projects throughout the country and are doing so profitably.
According to the frontier function scores in the subsectors, in small-scale firms MP, FDT and MEMSAS subsectors and in medium- and large-scale firms OCP, FDT and TSL subsectors are the most efficient subsectors.
Also, according to the metafrontier function scores in the subsectors, in small-scale firms MP, MMR and OCP subsectors and in medium- and large-scale firms MP, TSL and OCP subsectors are the most efficient subsectors.
In addition, except BMI subsector, in all other subsectors, it is seen that production scale has large impact on the efficiency of the firm and also the average efficiency of medium- and large-scale firms in each subsector is higher than the average efficiency of small-scale firms of same subsector.
