A Credit Score System for Socially Responsible Lending

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 691-701

  Gutiérrez Nieto, Begoña ^a   Serrano Cinca, Carlos ^a   Camón Cala, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Credit scoring; Ethical banking; Financial ratios; Multi criteria decision making (MCDM); Social impact assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960229926     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2448-5     Document Type: Article

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