Hello everyone,

I am writing my thesis on the effect of negative publicity on executive pay. I need to collect the number of negative articles per company/CEO.

In a recent research they identified the articles (in Factiva) by using a Perl string sequence.

When I just fill in the Perl string in the search box I can't get the output of Company Name-CEO Name-#articles-Year (for a period of 10 years).

I have no knowledge of Perl programming, so I don't know if this is a complicated question.

I would really appreciate it if someone could steer me in the right direction because right now I don't know where to start.

Thank You!

Hannah

Perl string used in research "Power of the Pen and Executive Compensation":

(CEO name or CEO name’s or executive* or CEO*) near25

(high* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit*)

or excess* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or lofty near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or hefty near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or large adj7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or rich near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or big* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or outsize* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or huge near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or generous near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or exorbitant* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or fat* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or gargantuan near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or bonanza* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or jumbo near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or whopp* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or astound* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or ridiculous* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or stagger* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or handsome* near7 (salar* or bonus* or pay* or paid or compensat* or benefit* or option*)

or lucrative near7 (pay* or compensat* or option*)

or critic* near7 (pay* or compensat*)

or best near7 paid

or reap* adj7 million*

or self-serving

or largesse

or overpaid

or lavish

or perks

or perquisites

or windfall*

or earn* more than

or was paid more than

or receiv* more than

or made more than)

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