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Exploring the Intersection Where Business Models, a Circular Economy and Sustainability Meet in the Waste Economy: A Scoping Review

Sustainability 2022, 14(6), 3687; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063687
by Marlin Hoffman 1,*, Catherina J. Schenck 2 and Frederick Herbst 3
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Sustainability 2022, 14(6), 3687; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063687
Submission received: 8 February 2022 / Revised: 23 February 2022 / Accepted: 24 February 2022 / Published: 21 March 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circular Economy: Waste Management and Producer Responsibility)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,

First of all, thank you for giving me the opportunity to read your paper. There are several  suggestions for improving your work:

  1. Please enlarge Introduction, by better contextualize this topic comparing to the existing background and highlight the importance of this research.
  2. Please introduce in this research studies indexed in WOS, not only Scopus and Ebsco, because many important studies are published in journals with IF.
  3. Please enlarge the conclussions, with some recommendations and design some limitations of your study and some directions for further research.

 

Author Response

Thank you for your feedback and the valuable comments that you have made. We inlcuded WoS database search which yielded the same results and added it to the search criteria. We have enlarged the conclusions and worked on the recommendations and future research opportunities within the field. Based on the results of the scoping review we have found that it is a niche and new focus of study. We added more contextual background to the introduction as you recommended. Again this was an invaluable experience especially when we considered the comments made. Thank you. 

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper is dealing with an interesting topic, and the following minor changes should be done before the consideration:

1-  Remove the full stop from the title.

2- The authors can make the title more attractive.

3- Abstract is very short, needs to extend.

4- Clearly mention the key contribution of this study in the introduction.

5- I suggest the authors to create a graphical representation of the study, aim-model-findings-outcomes-future directions.

6- Need to expand the discussion more.

7- Merge section 9 with the conclusion as "Conclusion and Recommendation of the study".

Author Response

Thank you for your valuable input. We appreciated the input and worked with it extensively. We used all your recommendations and made the necessary changes to it however, we did not add the graphical representation as we covered it in more detail as we made changes. Again we thank you for your comments and recommendations as it was invaluble to our process which we will keep top of mind in the future research on this topic. 

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

No further comments.

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