Analysis of Micro Value Flows in the Value Chain of Eco-Innovation in Agricultural Products

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

In the paper the Authors undertake interesting and important for management topic referring to Value Creation of Agricultural Green Innovation Value Chain. The aim of the paper is to develop a value chain management model for agricultural eco-innovation that can encompass different aspects to create value. 

However Author/s should correct the article with majores suggestions listed below:

1. First section according to manuscript template should be numbered 1. Introduction not 0 

2. At the end of Introduction Authors should add the aim of the paper one more time. 

3. Numbers of all subsequent sections should be changed starting with above mentioned 1.Introduction

4. If section "Related work" is Literature review so It should be developed with wider view focused not only on GERD network but also general on sources refering to value creation of agricultural green innovation. This section needs to be expanded to include references to wider literature.

5. Chapters referring to methodology and results are constructed properly, however please explain why the Authors relied on the GERD method and not on multi-criteria methods?

6. How was the importance (weighting) analysis performed in multi-purpose planning?

7. Please explain GIAVC-GERT? Shouldn't be GIAV-GERT?

8. Conclusion should be developed according to results presented in the previous section especially in context of possible implementation in practice.

9. The most important suggestion is to add more positions in references. In high quality journals You should include about 40-50 up-to-date positions to properly present the actual state of knowledge.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript is difficult to: read, follow and understand. The Authors do little to help the Reader go through the text. The list of references is too short, it is disturbing. All six citation are made in one chapter 1. Related work. It unusual chapter, usually it should be the state of art in the undertaken topic.  Lines 86 to 88 and no citations at all.  Citations and list of references are disqualifying. The introduction has no aim. The aim is only in abstract.  

The manuscript has nothing to do with agriculture and green innovations. The word ‘agricultural’ is written 70 times in the manuscript. Term ‘green innovation’ 13 times, ‘green innovations’ 14 times. After careful reading I don’t know what the green innovations in the agriculture could be?

I think if there is a different tittle i.e. green innovations in agriculture were replaced by any other complicated and multi elemental task the manuscript will be the same.  The simple advice is to delete what is extra i.e. Value Creation in Value Chain Operation Based on Multi-objective Decision-making and send the manuscript to the journal of planning or management. This is confusing to me.

Is GERT still valuable tool? The tool one used with the success and then abounded? Might a 60 years old tool be useful now? Are not modern computers and different computers environment much better than any tool taken from the time before the computers era?

If there were any green innovation in agriculture exampled tested in the manuscript I think a could manage to judge, to answer for the questions above. In case of only mathematical description I am not able to answer.  

The same problem I have with value. The Authors do not define the ‘value’ term, the value flow and value creation. Patricianly with connection with Agricultural Green Innovation. Because of this idea 1 appeared.  

And finally, what is China famous from? The answer is from everything. It is so ancient, large state, continent, culture, philosophy, languages, scripture system, set of innovations, achievements  so they don’t need to take anything from abroad. In this very rare cases, the leaders of China took something is communism and free market. But in both cases the leaders manged to modify the introduced system, managed to give them Chinse specificity. Taking the manuscript I was willing to see, how do the old and forgotten tool will be modified to modern times, to new tasks. Chinese reforms started in villages, in agriculture, in food production sector. I guess after 50 years of changes the process is not completed, I would like to know something about this.

The manuscript is not giving me any information of this.     

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Accept in present form

Author Response

Revisions have been completed in accordance with your comments

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors,

please correct spelling in the manuscript, my advice to the Editor is accept after minor (spelling) revision. 

Author Response

Revisions have been completed in accordance with your comments