Corporate Management Performance Data for 1,271 Korean Listed Companies (2016-2023)

Xiao Wang's dataset contains financial and strategic text data for 1,271 companies listed on Korea's KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets from 2016 to 2023. The data was used to train AI models predicting corporate management performance, combining financial variables with strategic indicators from CEO messages in sustainability reports. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-06.

Use Cases

• Predicting corporate management performance based on combined financial and strategic text data.
• Benchmarking machine learning and deep learning classifiers (e.g., Transformer, LSTM) for financial prediction tasks.
• Analyzing the impact of sustainability-related strategic indicators, derived via text mining, on corporate outcomes.
• Studying the relationship between CEO communication in sustainability reports and financial performance.

Strengths

• Contains data for 1,271 listed companies, providing a substantial sample size.
• Covers an 8-year time range from 2016 to 2023, allowing for temporal analysis.
• Integrates structured financial data with unstructured text data from CEO messages.
• The associated research demonstrates model performance metrics, with a best-performing hybrid model achieving Accuracy=0.8467, AUC=0.8481, and F1=0.8572.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, which limits suitability assessment and requires manual inspection after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, suggesting it may contain only a sample, summary statistics, or model results rather than the full underlying data.
• Geographic coverage is limited to companies listed on Korean stock exchanges.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Xiao Wang.

Collection Method

Financial variables were selected based on prior accounting research; strategic variables were derived via text mining of CEO messages in sustainability reports and categorized using the Sustainable Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) framework.

Time Range

2016-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 17:32:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Korea (companies listed on KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets)