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