The Key Factors for Sustainability Reporting Adoption in the Semiconductor Industry Using the Hybrid FRST-PSO Technique and Fuzzy DEMATEL Approach
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors:
I hve gone through this paper thoroughly.
Sustainability-related issue is really interesting and it can be viewed as one of the driving force for corproate's future development. The authors introduce an architecture and idendity how to reach a sustainable development based one SASB's instruction.
The suggestions and contribution is really useful to academicians and practitioners.
From the aspect of methodology, the minimal reduct determination is an classical optimization task.
The authors apply PSO to detemrine the best reduct for FRST and the results look sounded and satisfactory.
To convince the readers, the authors need to compare the other meta-heuristic algorithems such as genetic algorithm, or hill-climbing to let us know the introduced approach is superior.
The authors still need to let us know why FRST is suitable to do pre-test task.
The authors need to compare it with the other rule-based approaches to demonstrate its effectiveness.
I think this paper has considerable publication potential, if the authors can fix the flaws I mentioned.
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Reviewer 2 Report
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Reviewer 3 Report
Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to review the paper.
I somewhat enjoyed reading the article entitled “An exploration of the key factors for sustainability reporting adoption in the semiconductor industry using the hybrid FRST-PSO technique and fuzzy DEMATEL approach”. I applaud for authors’ efforts. I found really good article. However, I have some Minor considerations. My compliments for authors for very new references.
1. While every article contains some kind of exploration, the title with the beginning “An exploration of …” is not appropriate. I suggest to short the title to “The key factors for sustainability reporting adoption in the semiconductor industry using the hybrid FRST-PSO technique and fuzzy DEMATEL approach”.
2. I didn't find the research limitations and directions for future research in the end of the article. This component is really needed in scientific work.
2. The explanation of this topic in the introduction is very good, but I missed argumentation of authors why they have chosen to explore this particular industry (semiconductor) and why China is chosen? Could the research results be different in other industries and other countries?
3. We need to read concrete references to research works which are mentioned in 88 row. Please, list these works.
4. 98-109 rows – This paragraph is more suitable for conclusions than for introduction.
5.There is no explanation in the text what is MCDM (262 row). Also I suggest to explain this.
6. I found some repeating, dublicated sentences and explanations in 312-319 rows and 337-340, 344-350 rows.
7. In Table 3, it is not explained what is A, B, C, D in dimension column. I suggest to explain this.
8. There should not be free space in 8 and 14 pages. And similar can be said about 9-11 pages which contain only tables and figures. I suggest to insert text between these results.
Thank you very much for possibility to read the very good article once again!
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Thank you very mych.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Thanks for the revising. After examining the revised version, I think this paper is sufficient to be published in Sustainability.
