Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

In this paper, a three-party evolutionary game model is constructed to analyze and simulate the strategic choices of stakeholders under different situations through simulation experiments, and explore the sensitive influence of each factor. The authors have investigated an interesting research question, the main results are right with rigorous mathematical proof. I’m concerned with the following issues in the study.

1. Provide a table to analyze the literature review. What are the research gaps? How can you fill them? Compare the existing models in the literature and why you think your model is merit in the literature? Please work on improving the clarity of your paper.

2. Some recent papers about the platform retailing scheme should be added into the literature review. The following related papers are suggested: Manufacturer’s online selling strategies under spillovers from online to offline sales; Impact of the introduction of marketplace channel on e-tailer’s logistics service strategy; Uncertainty analysis and optimization modelling with application to supply chain management: A systematic review.

3. Model assumption need more literature support.

4. On Page 17, in the part of conclusion, the author spent a lot of time sorting out the research findings. I do not find the theoretical contributions of the research to the existing research field.

5. Writing: There are still some typos, mistakes, and grammar issues throughout the entire paper.

6. The clarity of the picture needs to be improved. Moreover, I think Figure 5 should be deleted because such a figure cannot deliver valuable information.

Minor editing of English language required.

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Reviewer 2 Report

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Reviewer 3 Report

This paper is well-written and has an okay structure.

The authors made a well-develped math description and explanation of the evolutionary game application on this topic.

I suggest the inclusion of a table of authors at the end of the literature review section for validation and support of your hypotheses 

Include a diagram to explain your methodology graphically

Extend your conclusions explanation. Include a comparison of your results with the literature and extend the implication to the literature, management, and theory formulation.

This paper has a good English proofreading

 

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