Credit scoring and decision making in Egyptian public sector banks

International Journal of Managerial Finance

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 391-406

  Abdou, Hussein A ^a   Pointon, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banks; Debit and credit; Decision making; Egypt; Neural nets; Public sector organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350266119     PISSN: 17439132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17439130910987549     Document Type: Article

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