How Does Retailer-Oriented Remanufacturing Affect the OEM’s Quality Choice?
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Thanks for your paper submission to Sustainability, firstly, I am happy to see your contribution to sustainable industry research. This paper adopted game theory to analyze the decision makings in OEM supply chain. The result has meanings, and the method is suitable. Here are some issues which the authors could consider, and hope the paper’s quality can be improved further before resubmission.
1. Authors introduced the remanufacturing industry situation on the world, however the data from China is insufficient. You’d better take these papers as the references, which can provide OEM and remanufacturing industry data from China to you, and you can compare the different development situation.
Overview of remanufacturing industry in China: Government policies, enterprise, and public awareness. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118450
Government regulation and enterprise decision in China remanufacturing industry: evidence from evolutionary game theory.DOI: 10.1007/s40974-020-00198-8
2. When it comes to model description part, the style of characteristics in figure 1 is very strange, such as the worlds “OEM” “Retailer” etc.
3. Turing our attention to part 4 “Equilibrium Result Analysis”, authors should explain how do you carry out the numerical experiments, how do you set up the values and initial parameters? Why the steps are set up like it in Figure 2 etc?
4. Let’s see the conclusion part as well as the managerial implications, the authors should highlight the contributions you didi to the government, enterprises or the people, for instance, when the OEM participants make these decisions, what benefits they can get in the daily operation? This paper is a traditional math modeling paper, the model is suitable and complex, however, when the guys did these research, they always omit the practice implications to management.
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Reviewer 2 Report
I appreciate the efforts of the authors; however, I have the following suggestions to improve this work.
I. Please improve your English writing, there are several problems.
II. What is Case NR, you should define abbreviation before its first occurrence in the text. ( Define VNR, FNR, etc)
III. In Line 82 you defined the aim of the study, and then in lines 100-104 you again defined aims differently. Please avoid repetition and define them in one place.
IV. The title agrees with the aim given in line 82, but it doesn't fit other parts of the study given in lines 100 to 104.
V. On page 6, lines 253-254: The statement “a customer with willingness to pay (EQUATION) will buy the new product” is wrong. Such customers will buy remanufactured products.
VI. Please state the novelty of this work.
VII. The literature is a very important part of the paper and it should be written in a way that stats the novelty of your work. Please rewrite your literature in such a way that it differentiates your work from the existing works.
VIII. Please add relevant papers from “sustainability” journal
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Reviewer 3 Report
Greetings, The paper is good but needs to be reworked. The first citation of references is not in accordance with the instructions. References should be enclosed in square brackets [n]. Selection 2 in the Literature Review needs to be amended. In this review of the literature, it is necessary to add more references from previous research. The rest of the paper is well written, the biggest complaint is that this is not all demonstrated by example. In conclusion, it is necessary to put guidelines for future research. All bestAuthor Response
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
all my issues have solved, thanks for the authors' cooperations
Reviewer 3 Report
Greetings,
The paper is good now and I suggest it be published. The authors followed all the suggestions and corrected the paper.
All best
