African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4188

Full Length Research Paper

The analytic network process for the banking sector: An approach to evaluate the creditability of emerging industries

Yi-Shan Chen1*, Chin-Tsai Lin2 and Jung-Ho Lu3
  1Business Research and Development Center, Soochow University, 56 Kueiyang St., Sec. 1, Taipei, Taiwan 10048, Taiwan, R. O. C. 2School of Management Department of Business Administration, Ming Chuan University, 250, Section 5, Chung Shan North Road, Taipei 11103, Taiwan. 3Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Ming Chuan University, 250, Section 5, Chung Shan North Road, Taipei 11103, Taiwan.
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  •  Accepted: 01 November 2010
  •  Published: 18 February 2011

Abstract

 

This paper identifies the preferable bank loan quality for reducing non-performing loans (NPL). In combination with the relevant literature and interviews with experts, this study adopts the modified Delphi method and the analytic network process (ANP) to construct an evaluation method and to determine ANP effectiveness. In this study, we apply ANP to construct an evaluation method and introduce four criteria and ten sub-criteria to evaluate six alternative bancassurance alliance models. This paper proves that ANP is an effective tool to provide an accurate solution for the decision maker. The results indicate that executives of banks’ decision maker units establish business loan processes to evaluate the emerging industry credit ability model for banking sector.

 

Key words: Bank loans, credit ability, solar energy industry, modified Delphi method, Analytic Network Process (ANP), Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)