Research on the Quality Evaluation of Environmental Information Disclosure of W Chemical Company Based on Text Analysis
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Environmental information disclosure, Text analysis, chemical industry.Abstract
As a heavily polluting sector, the chemical industry’s environmental information disclosure quality is pivotal to regulatory compliance, green transformation, and stakeholders’ decision-making. Following a literature review to synthesize the research landscape, this study integrates the chemical industry’s characteristics and policy requirements, employs text analysis techniques for quantitative measurement across five dimensions—content completeness, information reliability, text readability, text similarity, and text objectivity—and adopts the entropy weight method to determine indicator weights, thereby constructing a quality evaluation system for chemical enterprises’ environmental information disclosure. Taking W Chemical Company as a case study, it assesses the company’s disclosure quality from 2020 to 2024, analyzes score trends and indicator performance, and verifies the system’s credibility and advantages through comparison with the conventional EDI index.
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