Incorporating sustainability criteria into credit risk management

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-50

  Weber, Olaf ^a,b   Scholz, Roland W ^b   Michalik, Georg ^b  

^a GOE Gesellschaft für Organisation und Entscheidung ^*  (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Banking; Credit; Decision making; Loan; Rating; Risk; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CREDIT PROVISION; DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 74549152621     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.636     Document Type: Article

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