First impressions on sustainable innovation matter: Using NLP to replicate B-lab environmental index by analyzing companies' homepages
本研究通过分析公司主页文本，利用BERT型自然语言处理模型进行零样本分类，发现网页内容能解释B-lab环境指数57%的方差，为低成本、实时监测企业环境表现提供了新方法。
This study explores the potential for developing web-based environmental culture indicators by analyzing signals extracted from the homepages of company websites. The primary aim is to assess the proposed method's ability to generate indicators that can serve as proxies for real environmental measures by leveraging the homepage content. We performed a Zero-Shot Text Classification (ZSTC) using a BERT-type Natural Language Processing (NLP) model, followed by a regression analysis to test the ability of these web-based indicators to replicate the B-Lab environmental index and comprehend the dynamics behind the results. This pilot study explains 57 % of the variance of the B-Lab environmental index using the results of the ZSTC score and companies' characteristics. This research makes two significant contributions. First, the text content of a company's homepage seems to provide insights into its environmental performance. Second, it introduces a generalizable methodology for studying the performance of companies through their websites without the need for heavy pre-processing, significantly reducing the time and cost of research. Furthermore, the method could provide policymakers with a real-time landscape to create and finetune policies about specific topics, partially addressing the problems associated with questionnaire-based surveys.