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CEO values and corporate performance: A text mining and LLM-based approach

Economics and Business Review
Volume 11 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025)
By: Paweł OleksyORCID,  Matthias RecciusORCID and  Marcin CzuprynaORCID  
Open Access
|Oct 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2025.3.2172 | Journal eISSN: 2450-0097 | Journal ISSN: 2392-1641
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Language: English
Page range: 65 - 90
Submitted on: May 3, 2025
Accepted on: Aug 27, 2025
Published on: Oct 7, 2025
Published by: Poznan University of Economics and Business
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
CEO,
personal values,
corporate performance,
text mining,
ChatGPT
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Political economics, other,
Finance,
Mathematics and statistics for economists,
Econometrics

© 2025 Paweł Oleksy, Matthias Reccius, Marcin Czupryna, published by Poznan University of Economics and Business
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