{"title":"Measuring value-based management using natural language processing","authors":"Janice Wobst , Philipp Röttger , Rainer Lueg","doi":"10.1016/j.mar.2025.100946","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We propose an alternative approach to quantifying a firm’s value-based management (VBM) sophistication. The approach uses natural language processing (NLP) and builds on a newly developed, customised dictionary. We describe the development of this dictionary and validate the resulting measure for a large sample of European listed firms (STOXX Europe 600 Index) using tests of internal consistency, construct validity, and relevant robustness checks. In doing so, we present a novel application of NLP in management accounting. We also contribute a customised, open-source dictionary for the measurement of VBM sophistication thereby creating opportunities for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51429,"journal":{"name":"Management Accounting Research","volume":"67 ","pages":"Article 100946"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Management Accounting Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1044500525000228","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We propose an alternative approach to quantifying a firm’s value-based management (VBM) sophistication. The approach uses natural language processing (NLP) and builds on a newly developed, customised dictionary. We describe the development of this dictionary and validate the resulting measure for a large sample of European listed firms (STOXX Europe 600 Index) using tests of internal consistency, construct validity, and relevant robustness checks. In doing so, we present a novel application of NLP in management accounting. We also contribute a customised, open-source dictionary for the measurement of VBM sophistication thereby creating opportunities for future research.
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Management Accounting Research aims to serve as a vehicle for publishing original research in the field of management accounting. Its contributions include case studies, field work, and other empirical research, analytical modelling, scholarly papers, distinguished review articles, comments, and notes. It provides an international forum for the dissemination of research, with papers written by prestigious international authors discussing and analysing management accounting in many different parts of the world.