Crowdsourcing beschreibt ein Ansatz, mit dem Organisationen systematisch nutzergenerierte Daten von grossen Netzwerken an Personen sammeln können. Während in den vergangenen Jahren bereits die technologischen Voraussetzungen für die Analyse solcher Daten geschaffen wurden, ist noch...

Today, public and private organizations have increasingly turned to management and leadership development, seeking to advance their respective organizations under the assumption that leadership development programmes (LDPs) enable participants to develop their leadership capacity. As such, this...

In most democracies, members of parliament are either elected over a party list or by a district. We use a discontinuity in the German parliamentary system to investigate the causal effect of a district-election on an MP's conformity with her party-line. A district-election does not affect roll...

Topic modeling methods such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) are powerful tools for analyzing massive amounts of textual data. They have been extensively used in information systems and management research to identify latent topics for data exploration and as a feature-engineering mechanism...

We introduce and apply machine transfer learning methods to analyze accounting disclosures. We use the examples of the new BERT language model and sentiment analysis of quarterly earnings disclosures to demonstrate the key transfer learning concepts of: (i) pre-training on generic “Big...

This paper employs text-mining techniques to analyse the communication strategy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) during the period 2004-2019. Since the policy communique released after each meeting of the CBN's monetary policy committee (MPC) represents an important tool of central bank...

This research aims to specify critical urban sustainability issues by mining unstructured text data derived from the C40 city datasets of the Carbon Disclosure Project. The current study identifies underlying topical issues exhibited by text corpora, enables creation of smarter data...