International Journal of Business and General Management

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Authors: Muhammad Salman Asif

In the modern, competitive, technology driven world, manufacturing companies strive to make the best use of IT, especially the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, often facing several difficulties while doing so. An ERP system consolidates all business processes into a constant system environment by using a central database and functioning on a common computing platform. ERP selection is a critical investment which is intended to enhance an Organization’s financial, strategical and profitability performance. This study elucidates the major issues faced by manufacturing companies when selecting an appropriate ERP Software. The study conducts a review of related literature and found that manufacturing companies face many issues such as management of cost, time and other resources during ERP software selection. The study concludes that ERP system selection is a challenging phase in an organization’s life which can be simplified by carefully analyzing the issues involved and following the best decision-making processes for making the selection.

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Authors: Anju Duhan & Meenakshi Dhingra

Indian economy is known as agriculture based economy over worldwide. Agriculture is such a business that is almost depends on the nature. Thus, the income of the farmers suffers a lot due to the uncertainty in weather conditions such as excess or unseasonal rain, drought, variability in temperature, hailstorms, windstorms etc. Many times market risks also affect the economic condition of the farmers because of low prices of the agriculture produce and high costs of the agricultural inputs. Although, government is committed to overcome the risks faced by the farmers specially, the market risks through the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) and other risks are trying to reduce by introducing agriculture insurance schemes by the government. But, the main issue is to spread out these schemes to all the farmers, so that they can be benefitted from the implemented schemes. There may be various factors which are helpful or a hurdle in the awareness level of the farmers such as age, education, experience, income and category of farming. One or two factors mutually may play an important role in increasing or decreasing the awareness level of the farmers. The present study is an attempt to trace out the association between factors affecting the awareness level of farmers about agriculture

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Authors: Juwairiya.P.P & Vinod Kumar.K.P

The risk is the important feature of all financial assets. Risk perception is the subjective judgment about the characteristics and severity of a risk. It is one of the important factors which influence the investment behavior of investors. In this study, the impact of risk perception of mutual fund investors in Kerala on their investment decision is carried out. The study found that there exists a positive relationship between the risk perception and investment decisions in MF. So Asset Management Companies must consider the risk perception of investor while launching a new product.