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Table 2 Number of negative news reported from January 2012 to May 2018 among the 35,657 firms investigated in this study

From: Prediction of ESG compliance using a heterogeneous information network

Category

No. of news stories

Unique firms

Product/service

20,637

8779

Regulatory

21,652

7552

Financial

22,754

3310

Fraud

14,489

3997

Workforce

7523

3963

Management

11,220

4063

Anti-competitive

7748

3620

Information

6401

2873

Workplace

6827

2492

Discrimination-workforce

6477

2426

Environmental

4083

1887

Ownership

4124

2615

Production-supply

2878

1869

Corruption

3621

1578

Human

496

302

Sanctions

254

157

Association

247

90

  1. “No. of news stories” represents the total number of negative news stories for a particular negative news category. “Unique firms” represents the total number of unique firms tagged with a particular negative news category