Investment decisions of public and private manufacturing firms in India

  • Authors

    • Malavika A
    • Bhawana Jain
    • Hari Krishnan A. V
    2018-06-08
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.33.15509
  • Investment, Fixed Assets, Public, Private, Return on Assets, Debt Equity Ratio, Dividend, Total Expenditure.

  • The study intents to explore the factors that influence the investment decisions of public limited and private limited manufacturing firms in India. The data for the study was collected for a period of 10 years from CMIE Prowess. Variables such as ROA, Debt/Equity, Dividend and Total Expenditure have been considered as independent variables for the research. The study found that investment decisions of private firms are influenced by factors like ROA, Debt/Equity and Expenses, whereas the public firms’ investment decisions are influenced by ROA, dividend and Expenses.

     

     

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    A, M., Jain, B., & Krishnan A. V, H. (2018). Investment decisions of public and private manufacturing firms in India. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.33), 829-831. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.33.15509