Explore the effects of industrial context and leaders´ viewpoints on corporate sustainability in Taiwan by text mining

The application of corporate sustainability in triple bottom line has been a critical issue to enterprises. It is a future trend for enterprises working and self-discoursing on their corporate sustainability, and there are many reports about enterprises´ efforts on corporate sustainability in developed economy. The research purpose of this study is (1) to explore the three different industrial sectors´ context of factors of Taiwan enterprise which empathizes on corporate sustainability report in economic, environment, and social dimensions, and (2) to understand how different the leaders´ viewpoints of enterprises in three different industry sectors toward corporate sustainability are, namely; finance, insurance and real estate; wholesale, retail and catering industry; transport, storage and communication industry. This study applies the text mining as a tool in the information system to explore the annual corporate sustainability reports in Taiwan. As the findings, it can learned that (1) the industrial context of Taiwan enterprises on corporate sustainability report in economic, environment, and social dimensions; and (2) there are signification differences in leaders´ viewpoints in corporate sustainability report from the three different industries sector.