Abstract
Financial organizations have been globally studied, but few
of these studies have examined the strategies used by banks in Vietnam for
making decisions regarding bank rankings. This research is objective to explore
and to demonstrate utility of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) application in
banking for the purpose of proposing a suitable model for partners evaluation
and selecting banking strategic alliances in Vietnam. The AHP is applied to
examine what criteria should be encompassed in evaluating and examining the
importance weightings of influential criteria when ranking the bank system.
After a long process of calculation based on AHP, the author has come up with
the final rankings according expert’s interview: ACB’s percentages have change
widely from each sub-criterion. By this thesis, author would contribute to the
ranking process of the banking system, in general, and the special case of
Vietnamese banking a very modern model to apply, then to choose the right
alliance for further cooperation, not only for banking system but it can be
applied for a lot of industries.