Driving Innovation by Managing Entrepreneurial Orientation, Cooperation and Learning for the Sustainability of Companies in the Energy Sector

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,

first of all, I'd like to congratulate you for the effort you put into this draft manuscript. You address a topic of current interest using an appropriate methodology, and finally, you report the results and conclusions you got in a clear manner.

My only concern in regard to your draft has to do with the potential common method bias (CMB) that can arise from the fact that the measurement of the endogenous and exogenous variables is based on the answers of the same group of individuals. Therefore, I'd recommend testing for CMB before publication.

Best regards

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

We would like to thank you for taking the time to review our work, as well as for your valuable comments on it. You will find our response in the attached document. We hope you find it to your satisfaction.

Best regards,

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Thank you very much for inviting me to review the paper entitled “Linking entrepreneurial orientation and innovation through networking and learning capacity”. After going through the manuscript, it seems to me that this paper is a good candidate for publication at this journal. By using a sample of 197 companies in the energy sector this paper aimed to empirically analyze the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and companies’ innovation capacity, in addition to the mediating effect of entrepreneurial networks and firms’ learning capacity in this relationship. I hope the following comments will help authors to improve the paper:

1) Authors may put brackets for “(PLS-SEM)” in the abstract in the “A sample of 197 companies in the energy sector is analyzed using the variance-based structural equation modeling technique PLS-SEM”. Authors may put the version name of PLS-SEM in abstract as well. Add information about the context of study, 197 companies coming from which country and which part of the country. 

2) What is the contribution of your study to the current literature, I believe that the direct relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and innovation have been tested by previous studies. What has your study added to the innovation literature?

3) If authors want, they may rename it by “2.Literature Review and Hypotheses Development” as hypotheses were also developed in this section.

4) I recommend the authors to increase the transparency of the method section. How do you select 197 companies? They are coming from which part of the country? What was the main criteria for selecting a sample? How did you check common method variance? Whether you checked nonresponse bias? Explain how? I can’t see the reliability and validity test results! How were the survey respondents? CEOs, or TMTs? 

Authors should mention in this section which sampling technique was used for this study. Authors should put “R2” (R-Square) properly. Authors put the double control variable word “Age (control variable)” &; Size (control variable) (control variable). Authors should remove one word from here. Authors mention “Hair et al. [140]” for minimum sample size requirements. Here the unit of analysis is mentioned to organizations. So, authors should explain step by step for considering minimum sample size determination.

5) It would be better if authors put the tables (outer loadings, AVE,

CR, R square, discriminant validity –Fornel- Lacker criterian/HTMT), standardised

SEM path coefficient figure (yellow figure). Put “Q2” correctly.

6) Authors should add “implications of the study” and “Limitations and Future Directions” points

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

First of all, we would like to thank you for your excellent review of the paper. Your comments have allowed us to significantly improve the quality of our work. We have addressed each and every one of your corrections. We hope that the modifications made are of your satisfaction, and sufficient to accept the paper for publication.

Please see the attachment

Author Response File: Author Response.docx