Adoption of Green Environmental Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Entrepreneur and Business Policies Patterns in Romania

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

My congratulations on a well-written manuscript. You address a highly relevant topic, to which you add valuable insights. I have no critical adjustments to the research set-up or execution or to the manuscript to mention.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you for your appreciation.

We are at your disposal for any information you may need.

Sincerely,

Catalina Costache

Co-Author

Reviewer 2 Report

Interesting topic, with new original results. SMEs and greening activities are very important. Can you involve more SMEs? Can you provide about the corporate social responsibility?

Author Response

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Reviewer 3 Report

The article analyzes the connections between SMEs managers' individual attitudes and the environmental performance of the company. In addition, it analyzes whether there are links between company characteristics and the measures adopted.

The article is well written and presents interesting findings. I recommend removing the definition of CSR from the beginning of the introduction and moving it to the beginning of section 2. Similarly, to focus the topic more, I would move the description of SMEs from section 2 (paragraphs 13-16) to the introduction. I think that for the objectivity of research, the authors should eliminate the beginning that mentions Friedman (lines 34-42). I think it is a criticism that adds nothing in an article of this type. 

One of the things that should be solved in the article is the absence of hypotheses. I think that the gap in the literature is well articulated and I miss a hypothesis at the end of section 2 and another at the end of section 3. 

Regarding the methodology, I have not been able to develop a good review because I am not an expert.

Finally, regarding the discussion, I think it is well structured and contrasts well with or strengthens the previous literature. However, the long comments on the results are redundant (they are already in the results section). Therefore, I would shorten those parts a bit and go to the most important part of the findings, keeping the references to previous studies. 

The references are a bit outdated. I think it would be good if new ones were added, such as, for example, some of the following. I attach DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.10.040

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you for your appreciation and your constructive remarks.

We have modified our manuscript according to your observations.

We removed the definition of CSR from the beginning of the introduction and moved it to the beginning of) section 2 (lines 140-148). Similarly, we moved the description of SMEs from section 2 to the introduction (lines 68-84). We also- eliminated the beginning that mentions Friedman (lines 34-42).

We also added a third hypotheses which was not clarly stated at the end of the section 3 (lines 294-303).

We eliminated the redundant parts from the „Discussion” section.

We also added the reference suggested (nr. 84, line 673).

We are at your disposal for any information or clarification you may need.

Sincerely yours,

Catalina Costache

Co-author

Sibiu, the 26th of April 2021