What do We Know about Vision? A Sustainability Lens

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The abstract needs to be shorter—one paragraph of 250 words. 

Add a few lines on contributions of your research.

You need to discuss the underlying theory behind your research. e.g., stakeholder theory and the ESG model in the literature review section

The following references might be helpful.

"Stockholders and stakeholders: A new perspective on corporate governance." California management review 25, no. 3 (1983): 88-106.

"Beyond Diversity: why the inclusion is imperative for boards to promote sustainability among agile non-profit organisations?." International Journal of Agile Systems and Management 14, no. 2 (2021): 254-275.

Compare your findings with older research in the discussion section 

Add theoretical and practical implications.

 

Readable but can be improved. 

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The article investigates the development of organizational vision research. The authors try to look at the problem considering the sustainability issues. To achieve the stated goal the author applied methods of bibliometric analysis.

I have some comments on how the article can be improved. The methodology section should be improved. The author conducted the co-citation and received the four clusters as the result (Figure 2). After that, the author interpreted the clusters and identified vision component, vision motivation, transformational vision, and educational vision. However, no arguments regarding such an interpretation were presented. The interpretation of clusters is basically the key aspect of bibliometric analysis. A clear argumentation on cluster interpretation needs to be presented. I would suggest linking the analysis of the most cited articles to cluster interpretation.

The other question arises what was the reason for conducting co-citation analysis in the current article? The author used just the most frequently cited articles in the following article sections to answer the research questions.

The “RQ #3: What is the intellectual structure of the organizational vision knowledge base in the sustainability context?” is answered insufficiently, as an intellectual structure of the “organization vision domain” has not been interpreted with arguments.

In the “Conclusion” section it should be clearly stated what are the theoretical implications of the research. For now, there is one conclusion that sustainability issues are not considered in the organizational vision. So what?

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Reviewer 3 Report

This paper should not be written in the first person. Rewrite it please. The article is too long, it should be concise. There are some typing errors.

 

Abstract. The author should clearly identify the main objective of this research and should state the implications for the field of this research. The methodology used should be in the abstract too.

 

Too many research questions were identified. Some of them are identified automatically after performing the systematic review. One main research question should be identified, and the main research objective which should coincide with the gap in the literature and with innovation.

 

The search key should have been more elaborate. Boolean Operators should have been used to build the research.

 

Conclusions should be related with literature review, and it should be presented a comment to the objective. If the objective was achieved or not. The conclusions should be supported by the results presented. The author should present theoretical and practical implications. The conclusions should be improved, and the results found should be commented on.

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Reviewer 4 Report

The authors review 504 organizational vision articles from Scopus identified by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) and visualized by bibliometric analysis between 1981 and October 2022. Applying Integrated Systematic Literature Review (ISLR) approach, they conclude that sustainability productivity remains neglected by organizational vision scholars, who focus on organizational productivity. The study further develops a theoretical model that connects organizational vision and organizational sustainability performance. According to the authors, the present study is the first scientific literature review on organizational vision from the sustainability perspective. 

I appreciate the opportunity to read the paper. I think that the authors have done a thorough research, which I find satisfactory. I don’t have any more suggestions at this point in time.

Good luck!        

Minor

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript has been substantially improved. However, you should add more references to enhance your discussion and contributions in the introduction sections. 

Mentor expectations and entrepreneurial venture creation: mediating role of the sense of nothing to lose and entrepreneurial resilience." Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies 14, no. 6 (2022): 1229-1243

 

Proof read the article for minor issues

 

Author Response

Thank you for your feedback.  I have read the article you suggested.  It has nothing to do with either organizational vision or leadership, the focus of the present study.  So, it should not be added in the introduction section where the concepts of organizational vision and leadership are highlighted.  However, given that your suggested article is about resilience, I have added a discussion about organizational resilience in the Future Research Directions section.  Your reference and other relevant references also are added.  Please see below.

In addition, since little is known about the organizational resilience phenomenon [e.g., 141, 142], and the sustainability vision is part of the interim organizational theory of resilience [143], researchers can continue their theory building efforts in the domain of organizational resilience both in mature and entrepreneurial organizations.   

• Dost, M., Shah, S. M. M., & Saleem, I. (2022). Mentor expectations and entrepreneurial venture creation: mediating role of the sense of nothing to lose and entrepreneurial resilience. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 14(6), 1229-1243.
• Hepfer, M., & Lawrence, T. B. (2022). The heterogeneity of organizational resilience: exploring functional, operational and strategic resilience. Organization Theory, 3(1), 26317877221074701.
• Kantabutra, S., & Ketprapakorn, N. (2021). Toward an organizational theory of resilience: an interim struggle. Sustainability, 13(23), 13137.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The author significantly improved the paper and considered my suggestions. That is why I suggest to accept it.

Author Response

Thank you.