News on ethical business behaviour and information on ESGC in European countries

Access only for peer review. The dataset will be opened when the paper is accepted in a journal. 

This is the dataset used in the research conducted as part of the study titled "BRIDGING ESG RATINGS AND MEDIA ANALYSIS: A DUAL AI APPROACH TO CORPORATE ETHICS", which collects 44,315 news items related to business ethics behaviours of 1,474 European companies that have information on the ESG Controversies (ESGC) index of Thomson Reuters Eikon for at least 4 years of the time horizon from 2017 to 2023.

The following table shows the variables contained in the dataset for each of the news items extracted from Google News.

Data

Type

Source

Date

Date posting

Google News API

Title

Headline text

Google News API

Snippet

Caption text

Google News API

Source

Newspaper, website, blog

Google News API

Link

URL of the news item

Google News API

Company Name

Name of the company

Thomson Reuters Eikon

ESGC score

 From 0 to 100 points

Thomson Reuters Eikon

ESGC rank

 A, B, C or D ranks

Thomson Reuters Eikon

Country

Name of European countries

Thomson Reuters Eikon

Employees

Number of employees

Thomson Reuters Eikon

Turnover

Total revenue in the last year

Thomson Reuters Eikon

Industry sector

Name of the industrial sector in which the company operates

Thomson Reuters Eikon