Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The article provides a valuable contribution in the field of strategic management and innovation research, with particular regard to the synergies between big data and environmentally friendly investments. It describes the connections between CEOs' big data orientation, green investments and technological innovation. The topic clearly fits into the journal's scope.

Suggestions for further development:

- The practical applicability of the article would be increased if it also presented concrete company examples where big data orientation and green investments successfully supported technological innovation.

- When describing the statistical methodology, it would be worthwhile to give more detailed explanations so that even less expert readers can understand the techniques used.

- The thesis deals with a large amount of current literature, but at the same time, the scientific gap should be emphasized more.

- There are very long sentences in the article. For easier understanding, I recommend re-reading and considering conversion.

- I miss the comparison of the achieved results with the results of other researchers, which could even be a separate subsection.

After the transformation of the thesis according to the suggestions, I support the publication of the publication.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your review and suggestions for our paper. We have answered each of your points in the attachment. The corresponding revisions are highlighted in the re-submitted files.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The work is well structured, and the conclusions and especially the limitations indicate the key messages the authors want to emphasize and directions for future research. Considering that the research with its basis, data and results refers primarily to China, the proposal is to correct the title in the context to emphasize China as the central stage of this research.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your review and suggestions for our paper. We have answered your point in the attachment. The corresponding revisions are highlighted in the re-submitted files.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

DEAR AUTHORS: I had the opportunity to review your manuscript. I found it pleasant, relevant, and original. The impact of CEO big data orientation and environmental investment on organizational tech. innovation is an important topic. I found the paper structured well. The arguments borrowed from the attention based view of the firm are sound. The inferences drawn are logical. Theory support and literature review are relevant. The methodology is appropriate and as an expert in panel data, I agree that your methods are correctly used and implemented. As no paper is ever perfect, I would like to suggest a few minor areas of improvement:

1. THEORETICAL MODEL: The manuscript would greatly benefit from a figure that depicts your theoretical model. It can be placed at the end of your intro section or the end of your theory section, before hypothesis 1.

2. WORDING: As a strategic management researcher, I did not recognize the term "strategic management theory." This is a term that is not used int he strategic management field of knowledge. I suggest that you replace it with "resource based view" or "dynamic capabilities view." There is no such thing as a strategic management theory.

3. ROBUSTNESS TESTS: Your manuscript would greatly benefit from a robustness test. The negative binomial regression has shortcomings that are often criticized. Addins a test using a Poisson regression or even a OLS panel data regression with fixed effects would show whether your results are robust. I absolutely loved your disclaimer of the individual variable VIFs. Thank you for that.

Overall, I believe that your manuscript has a great potential to advance scholars' knowledge about the use and importance of CEO big data orientation for organizations. I hope you find my comments helpful.

Good luck with your paper!

 

Author Response

Thank you very much for your review and suggestions for our paper. We have answered each of your points in the attachment. The corresponding revisions are highlighted in the re-submitted files.

Please see the attachment.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf