Sentiment Analysis as a Tool for Monitoring the Company's
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Analiza sentymentu jako narzędzie monitorowania wyników finansowych przedsiębiorstwa
Sentiment Analysis as a Tool for Monitoring the Company's Financial Results

Author(s): Anna Baj-Rogowska
Subject(s): Economy, Human Resources in Economy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: sentiment analysis; opinion mining; analysis of Facebook posts; social media; social listening

Summary/Abstract: Social media is a global platform for sharing interesting ideas or news, comments and reviews. They provide a rich source of data for opinions mining in order to acquire previously unknown and useful business knowledge, which will enable not only agile management for effective customer service, but also should be reflected in the financial results of the company. The main goal of this article is to investigate whether the opinions about the company crawled from Facebook, subjected to a sentiment analysis are correlated with the enterprise's financial results. In the empirical part, Adidas company was selected for the study, and Facebook posts of its users' were collected in the period from October 1, 2014, to September 30, 2017. Existing correlations between the sentiment of users' opinions about Adidas and the financial indicators of this entity clearly show that social media play the role of tools that, if properly used through social listening, will bring financial benefits to the company.

  • Issue Year: 20/2019
  • Issue No: 12.1
  • Page Range: 125-139
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish