The research presented in this paper addresses the challenges of analysing organisational stake-holder communication using speech act theory, supported by a novel analytical model. We presenta large, automatically annotated dataset focused on present- and future-oriented speech acts inSwedish organisational discourse, specifically within the context of the ISO/IEC 27001 standard.To evaluate the dataset, we fine-tuned a multilingual XLM-Roberta model on the annotated dataand tested it against a manually annotated gold standard. Although the results were inconclusive,the study contributes valuable information to the CLARIN infrastructure and advances researchin organisational communication and information security.

With the purpose of  analysing Swedish companies' adherence and adoption of the information security standard ISO 27001 and to examine the communicative constitution of preventive innovation in organisations, we have created a corpus of corporate texts from Swedish company websites. The corpus was analysed from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives in close cooperation with management researchers and SweClarin researchers using SweClarin tools and resources as well as standard language technology tools. Some analyses require deep reading, which was performed by management researchers, often guided by results from language analyses. Initial results have been presented at a management studies conference. In this paper, we focus on presenting the research issues, the methods used in the project, the results, and the experience of SweClarin researchers supporting researchers in  social sciences. Our contribution is to show how it is possible, through the integration of human insights and digital methods, to increase the credibility and validity of a digitally acquired data set and subsequent research findings. In our view, a combination of human deep reading (management researchers), contextual lexical verification (management studies) and language technology (content and sentiment analysis) can help to sensitise computational text analysis for medium-sized data sets.

Denna rapport är en sammanfattning av de huvudresultat och praktiska implikationer som forskningsprojektet Controllern – en outforskad aktör i omställningen mot hållbara energisystem (CONSENSYS) [2019-006322] resulterat i. CONSENSYS har pågått 2020-2023 och har finansierats av Energimyndighetens forskningsprogram MESAMs (Människa, Energisystem och Samhälle) andra omgång (Energimyndigheten, 2019). En controller är en specialist inom ekonomistyrning och agerar vanligtvis som rådgivare för ledningen eller ekonomichefen. Controllern ansvarar för att samla in ekonomisk information från olika avdelningar och presentera resultatet för ledningsgruppen eller ekonomiavdelningen inom större organisationer. Allt fler controllers arbetar idag även med hållbarhetsarbete som att upprätta en organisations hållbarhetsredovisning enligt internationella ramverk och att utveckla hållbarhetsarbetet. I det här arbetet är det även centralt att integrera finansiella data med olika typer av hållbarhetsdata.

Projektets syfte har varit att studera controllerns roll i energiintensiva företags energi- och hållbarhetsstyrning. Med den här rapporten hoppas vi kunna sprida insikter och kunskap om energi- och hållbarhetsstyrning med ett särskilt fokus på controllerns roll. Rapporten riktar sig därmed i första hand till controllers och ekonomichefer, men också till andra funktioner såsom energi- och hållbarhetsansvariga som i sitt arbete på olika sätt samarbetar med controllers. Projektet har studerat företag inom svensk energiintensiv industri. I ljuset av det ökade fokus energi- och hållbarhetsfrågor får idag bör dock flera av de utmaningar vi identifierar förekomma även i andra industrier och projektets resultat och praktiska implikationer bör därför vara till nytta även för företag i andra industrier.

Preventive innovation differs from ordinary innovation. The innovation diffusion literature claims that the economic benefits of preventive innovation to adopters, such as ensuring information security, are mainly intangible and often time-delayed and sometimes only adopted for incidents that may never occur. Adopter communication about preventive innovation therefore seems to be crucial.

Using the example of the information security standard ISO/IEC 27001, we examine how communication of preventive innovations is shaped by its adopters. By analyzing texts about the information security standard ISO/IEC 27001 on Swedish corporate websites using computational linguistics tools and classical content analysis, we could identify, first, different adoption approaches of preventive innovation driven, second, by three modes of data governance: agency, stewardship and brokerage. Third, we provide evidence that the communication of preventive innovation depends on its data governance mode, but, fourth, also on the economic benefits of preventive innovation for adopters.

Our contribution to the innovation literature is twofold. First, the concept of preventive innovation originally presented by Rogers (1995) is revived and further developed. Comparing it to its original scope, we show that preventive innovation can be meaningful for adopting organizations not only when they go through all possible adoption phases identified by Rogers (1995). Also an economic benefit from preventive innovation is possible. Both aspects, adoption approach as well as economic opportunity strongly shape the production of meaning in communication about preventive innovation. Second, we show that computational linguistics can support qualitative research in the study of meaning production in communication, especially when dealing with large amounts of data, for instance, gained from corporate websites.