Why and how to evaluate the creditworthiness of SMEs' business partners

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-162

  Čančer, Vesna ^a   Knez Riedl, Jožica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Business partners; Creditworthiness; Internal rating; Qualitative factors; Quantitative factors; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 17744395912     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242605050510     Document Type: Article

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