The Impact of Startups’ Dual Learning on Their Green Innovation Capability: The Effects of Business Executives’ Environmental Awareness and Environmental Regulations

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of exploratory learning and applied learning on green innovation capability and verifies the environmental protection awareness of senior executives and the adjustment effects of environmental regulation by using structural methods.

This is an interesting paper which makes contributions towards the related literature. I list my comments as follows.

1. In line 338, the title is incorrect (correct: Confirmatory factor analysis)
2. On page 9, line 340, it is advisable to write the abbreviation "(CFA)" after the expression “confirmatory factor analysis”, because this makes it clearer for later use.
3. In lines 349-350 it explains all abbreviations used (SRMR - Standardized root mean square residual, CFI - comparative fit index, IFI - Incremental Fit Index, RMSEA - root mean square error of approximation)
4. According to Hu, L.; Bentler, P. M [39], “a cutoff value close to 0.06 for RMSEA are needed before we can conclude that there is a relatively good fit between the hypothesized model and the observed data.” Recheck the RMSEA
5. At 4.3., please mention the model proposed by Hayes’s (2013). I recommend to present more information (maybe a formula) of this model (the regression)
6. Does the “r” from 4.3. represent the coefficient of each independent variable? Please specify in the text what "r" in parentheses represents.
7. In line 358, correct the probability (P<0.001)
8. In lines 382–386 the results from model 4 are presented. The coefficients presented in the parentheses, are not found in table 2. Those values are presented in figure 2.
9. In lines 408-409 are presented the results from model 5. The coefficients presented in the parentheses, are not found in table 2. Those values are presented in figure 3.
10. Please recheck the sentence from lines 419-419 and correlated to the results presented in Figure 3.

Author Response

Thanks for the comment, please see the attachment.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Please final check the English language / typing, for instance:

4.2. Confirmatory aactor analysis

Author Response

Thanks for the comment, it has been revised as required. Please see the line 338, p9.