Operational Resilience as a Key Determinant of Corporate Sustainable Longevity in the Indonesian Jamu Industry

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

• The challenges and motivation towards the proposed work are not clear.
• Clearly summarize the contribution of this paper in the Introduction section.
• The representation can be improved further, novelty needs to be highlighted, need of the study, and problem formulation needs to be reported properly.
• The authors have to summarize the advantages and limitations of the proposed work.
• It is suggested to add more documented reasons about the novelty of the work.
• In Conclusion, please summarize with clarity and mention possible future directions.
• There are some grammatical and typos errors in the manuscript. Authors should carefully check.

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

Thank you for your review and comments. I try to follow your suggestion on introduction, problem formulation, novelty highlighted, limitation, and conclusion. 

Certainly, I still need to improve it. Please your correction and suggestion then.

Warm regards,

dadang 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript tries to identify the key determinant of corporate sustainable longevity based theoretical exposition, particularly operational resilience, and its application in the longevity of the Jamu industry in Indonesia.

The topic is actual because Jamu industry faces operational issues that necessitate strong resilience.

The authors make a good synthesis of the literature. I consider this to be one of their contributions.

The ideas about the Jamu industry are descriptive and not supported by angible evidence.

In my opinion, the paper does not make significant contributions to the field of research.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you for your review and comments. I try to add data on number of jamu companies by category according to GP Jamu data. The data and evidence are still scattered in several separate official institution in Indonesia. Phenomenon of jamu industry is mostly described by indonesian newspaper, especially people euphoria to consume the jamu for getting immune. I hope this paper can be initial exploratory study for further research on operational resilience as predessor, moderator or mediator variable for CSL.

Warm regards,

dadang 

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Reviewer 3 Report

Authors provide an interesting paper that attempts to sketch out the role of sustainable longetivity in an important sector of the Indonesian economy. This longetivity is linearly associated with COVID-19 challenges. Evidently, the transformation of consumer preferences is a critical change that will influence the longetivity of Jamu industry. I have to ask the authors, what is the role of the state here?

Do we know how many companies are small and how many large? (see lines 60-66). I think that some data will be useful here. You can provide a table with some core statistics according to firms’ size (pharmaceutical firms and Jamu industries). You can see this interesting piece: Fernandez et al. (2019), Firm and industry effects on small, medium-sized and large firms’ performance, BRQ Business Research Quarterly (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2340943618302706)

I believe that authors should incorporate, as a part of their discussion, the role of knowledge in achieving sustainable longetivity. There is an important discussion here. I think that apart from good performance, knowledge is crucial to achieve long-term viability. You can see Meramveliotakis and Manioudis (2021), History, Knowledge and Sustainable Economic Development: The Contribution of J.S. Mill's Grand Stage Theory”, Sustainability, 13, 1468: 1-16. This can be added in the third paragraph in page 3.

Authors correctly cite Schumpeter’s creative destruction in their discussion. According to Schumpeter large firms are more adaptive to “innovation waves”. Thus, he believes that monopolies and oligopolies are the natural consequence of the creative destruction process. How Jamu would adapt this? A short comment will be useful here. An interesting piece here is Laino (2011), Innovation and monopoly: The position of Schumpeter (https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/pramprapa/35321.htm)

Two minor points:

• I prefer COVID-19 pandemic instead of epidemic (see exempli gratia line32, line 35 etc)
• Correct I, in line 127 with (i).

To sum up, it is a useful case study and I believe that the above-mentioned revisions are necessary to enhance the clarity of the authors' argumentation.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you for your review and comments. I follow your suggestions with adding descriptions from some references recommended and number of jamu companies by category according to GP Jamu. Another data are still scattered in few official institution in Indonesia. Hopefully, this exploration study will be initial study to further research on operational research as predecessor, moderator, or mediator variable affecting CSL.

Warm regards,

dadang 

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper is revised well as per my review's comments, so, I recommend for its acceptance.

Reviewer 2 Report

I read the revised manuscript and found that the authors tried to meet the requirements of the reviewers as much as possible. Many ideas have been rewritten, new ideas have been added, and additional bibliographic sources have been used. Thanks to the authors for their efforts!

I believe that the manuscript can be accepted for publication in its current form.

Reviewer 3 Report

I believe that the authors have sufficiently addressed my previous comments and that their revisions have improved the paper.