Patterns of Learning in Dynamic Technological System Lifecycles—What Automotive Managers Can Learn from the Aerospace Industry?

Round  1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article is interesting in theme it is dealing with. But, I can not find any relations between the article and open innovation, the theme of the journal. 

The article is not providing proper references for the purpose. I hope it can be done carefully. 

Also, the length of the article is too short (12 pages including Reference Section). The article is not mathematical one. In case of mathematical article, the length is not problem. But in case of descriptive research, the length can be a important measure of elaboration that the author(s) has made. I hope the authors can improve in this matter also.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors, thank you for this interesting article, which I read with great joy. What I will suggest is rather improvements that can support you.

First issue is the lack of hypotheses formulation. Although the study is an explorative one, I found the shift from methods to results to be too sharp. How about providing some conceptual thoughts as expectations from results? In the current form, this looks more like a measurement without theory.

Second issue is the role of organisational learning as your concluding remark. Even though the observation itself is valuable, I believe that your conclusion in that form resembles a technical report. I would suggest to include Witt’s “Imagination and leadership - The neglected dimension of an evolutionary theory of the firm” and Erkut’s “The Emergence of the ERP Software Market between Product Innovation and Market Shaping” to integrate your results into the evolutionary economic debate, since these contributions provide conceptual and empirical results that support your point respectively.

Good luck!

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Reviewer 3 Report

The paper is very interesting. This field of Study is unexplorate By the researcher.

My only suggestions regard the literature review. If you improve the part about the knowledge absorbition this paper will be a milestone of this journal.

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Round  2

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper is now acceptable for publication in JOItmC.