Corporate social responsibility in the IBEX 35: a corpus-based study of CSR reports

We present a corpus-based study of the Corporate Social Responsibility Reports issued by companies who operate in the Spanish Stock Market IBEX 35. Natural Language Processing methods are used for extracting informative collocations and measuring the textual complexity of these texts. Based on our r...

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Autores: Pérez Almendros, Carla, Espinosa-Anke, Luis, Torres Valdés, Rosa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/26275
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.689
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:corpus linguistics
corporate responsibility reports
Collocations
Text complexity
Corporate social responsibility
Public relations
IBEX 35
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Sumario:We present a corpus-based study of the Corporate Social Responsibility Reports issued by companies who operate in the Spanish Stock Market IBEX 35. Natural Language Processing methods are used for extracting informative collocations and measuring the textual complexity of these texts. Based on our results, we claim that (1) these reports are in general simpler and more redundant than general language, (2) there is a tendency towards the increasing use of the term sustainability to describe SR actions, and (3) integrated reports seem to be written for shareholders rather than the general public.