Creating Shared Value and Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility through Outsourcing within Supply Chain Management

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1. Please clarify research purpose and contribution.
   
   • •  What is research gap of this study? 
     • What is motivation of this study? 
2. Revise format of paper, 
   • • For example, Zhang, Pawar [44] should cite as Zhang et al. [44] 
3. Why do you choose cost, quality, and delivery time as a vital criteria ?
4. Which theory this paper is based on to show impact of shared value creation perspective. 

Author Response

Dear Reviewer

The authors have considerably benefited from your valuable comments and guides and would like to express their sincere thanks for your time and assistance with this manuscript. We have considered all your suggestions and hope the responses have addressed your comments. We highlight the main changes to our manuscript in green color. The comments are answered one-to-one in the attached file. 

Thank you very much for taking care of this review process for us.

Yours sincerely,

Corresponding author

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Reviewer 2 Report

Sources are missing from the figures
Figure 1: source not clearly identified
Figure 2 and the text do not indicate the year of the data on poverty and the unemployment rate of Iran's provinces

114-115: "Section 4 projects the real case by the methodology developed in the case of the pharmaceutical industry in Iran" - but Iran appears for the last time in v.270 and does not appear again anywhere thereafter (except in References)

The term strategic social responsibilities" appears in the title, abstract, keywords, but there is no reference to it in the text.

Can Indices, Parameters, Variables be used in other sectors?
Can similar studies, using the applied mathematical models, be conducted in other countries?

Is this symbol correct in verse 345?

References:

28 (line 583) - INVALID CITATION

Author Response

Dear Reviewer

The authors have considerably benefited from your valuable comments and guides and would like to express their sincere thanks for your time and assistance with this manuscript. We have considered all your suggestions and hope the responses have addressed your comments. We highlight the main changes to our manuscript in green color. The comments are answered one-to-one in the attached file. 

Thank you very much for taking care of this review process for us.

Yours sincerely,

Corresponding author

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 3 Report

no comment

Author Response

Dear Reviewer

The authors have considerably benefited from your valuable comments and guides and would like to express their sincere thanks for your time and assistance with this manuscript. We have considered all your suggestions and hope the responses have addressed your comments. We highlight the main changes to our manuscript in green color. The comments are answered one-to-one in the attached file. 

Thank you very much for taking care of this review process for us.

Yours sincerely,

Corresponding author

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

I could see authors addressed suggestions for the paper.