Aug 2026· International Journal for Sciences and Technology· Vol 17· 0 citations· 33 references
Abstract
India’s One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) scheme, approved by the Union Cabinet on 25 November 2024 and operational from 1 January 2025, consolidates ten pre-existing library consortia into a single centrally negotiated national licence backed by an outlay of ₹6,000 crore for the calendar years 2025 to 2027. A substantial descriptive and SWOT-based literature on the scheme has already accumulated. This paper makes a different contribution: it applies the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, in the knowledge-commons formulation developed by Hess and Ostrom, to treat ONOS as the deliberate construction of a national knowledge commons, and analyses the scheme’s rules-in-use rather than merely its provisions. The method is documentary policy analysis conducted through a transparent selection protocol yielding a corpus of 74 documents, coded deductively against the framework and assessed for authenticity, credibility, representativeness and meaning. Reported first-year performance is examined, including the concentration of downloads by publisher and by institution. ONOS is then compared against a typology of national access arrangements distinguished by eligibility basis and by whether the licence secures reading alone or reading and publishing, with Brazil’s CAPES Portal de Periódicos rather than Germany’s Projekt DEAL adopted as the primary comparator on grounds of scale, developing-country context and institutional longevity. The analysis identifies seven structural gaps, each expressed as a defect in the boundary, position, choice, payoff or information rules of the commons. It is argued that ONOS equalises the ability to read while leaving the terms of publication and the underlying enclosure untouched, and that the scheme is best understood as a transitional instrument whose principal risk is the weakness of India’s renewal position after 2027. Twelve recommendations follow, together with the empirical studies required before the Phase I review
Inaccessibility to peer-reviewed literature has long constrained Indian scholarship, especially given the rising cost of access, sectoral consortia, multiple points of procurement, and libraries’ inability to keep pace with these changes due to limited budgets. The One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) scheme, which was approved by the Union Cabinet in November 2024, stands as the Government of India’s answer to these structural weaknesses, with a cost amounting to INR 6,000 crore over 3 years and an annual amount of INR 150 crore for Article Processing Charge (APC) support from January 1, 2025. This study aims to step out of the descriptive narratives of ONOS and theorise ONOS as a managed national knowledge infrastructure. This study proposes a five-layered conceptual framework to connect policy inputs and outputs vis-à-vis access to public goods, governance and market mediation, institutional mediation, access outcomes, and system-level effects, with explicit feedback loops as a function of public goods, resource-based and diffusion of innovations theories, and the political economy of scholarly publishing. Data analysis was conducted through a qualitative and interpretive documentary approach by focusing on official policy instruments, government communications, and peer-reviewed literature obtained from Scopus during the period 2010-2025. This analysis suggests that there is substantial potential in ONOS for access equity, bargaining power, and national research capacity, while there are unanswered tensions with regard to disciplinary coverage, integration with open access, concentration of publishers, financial sustainability, institutional autonomy, and the digital divide. The framework shows that the legitimacy of a national license hinges on governance quality and is shaped by the role of Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals. Directions for policy refinement and an empirical research agenda based on the framework are also provided in this study.
Dubakula Durga Prasad, Rajesh Rangappa Aldarthi· Journal of Information and K...· 0 citations
Background: This article analyzes why Indonesia’s Personal Data Protection Law (UU PDP) produced a state-biased institutional design for its supervisory authority, despite rhetorically adopting a GDPR-style rights framework.
Objective: This study explains how coalition competition and institutional mechanisms produced this outcome.
Methods: Drawing on qualitative methods and primary data from the Working Committee meeting minutes of Commission I of the DPR RI, this article integrates the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), selected because it captures how competing belief systems shape institutional outcomes, and complements it with three variants of new institutionalism as explanatory layers.
Results: The findings show that competition between a governmental-centralized coalition favoring ministry-based oversight and a semi-independent coalition favoring institutional distance from the ministry under presidential accountability produced an asymmetric compromise: a partial victory for the latter through separation from Kominfo, but persistent governmental dominance in the exemption dimension, explained by path dependency, the government’s veto position, and mimetic isomorphism.
Conclusion: The article argues that meaningful data protection reform demands coalition reconfiguration, not statutory revision alone, particularly as Indonesia’s data protection authority is being formed. Theoretically, it refines the ACF by showing that stable compromise emerges when coalitions share a commitment to executive control and that the absence of a coalition option is as informative as coalition competition itself.
Aurellia Shinta Purnamasari, A. Bainus, Caroline Paskarina· Journal of Law and Social Po...· 0 citations
The "resource curse" has long puzzled scholars studying resource-rich nations: abundant natural resources rarely translate into sustained development, yet existing structural or institutional research rarely clarifies why countries with similar resource endowments take drastically different paths. Taking Zambia—Africa’s second-largest copper producer—as the primary case, this study addresses the core question of how such nations can break free from this curse by reinterpreting the "smart fisherman" theoretical framework. By tracking Zambia’s three-stage mining policy adjustments (2005-2010 privatization, 2011-2020 sovereignty awakening, 2021-present systematic advancement) and comparing it with Norway’s institutional advantages and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s governance failure, this study identifies three core drivers of transformation for resource-rich countries: investment diversification, rule-based bargaining, and capacity building. It defines national capacity as the core mediating variable, constructing an operational measurement system covering governance indicators, corruption control, and local value chain depth. The research verifies the core proposition that "national capacity is the key converter determining strategic success or failure," deepening discussions on small-state agency in resource curse theory and providing a theoretically rigorous, empirically grounded analytical framework for the transformation of Global South resource-rich nations.
Youran Lyu· Journal of Innovation and De...· 0 citations
The distribution of Indonesia's Public Service Mall (Mal Pelayanan Publik, MPP) has been found to be uneven, with a higher concentration of these facilities observed in the more affluent western regions of the country. This study examines the Jayapura City MPP, inaugurated in May 2023 as the first MPP in the Land of Papua, and asks how the innovation was constituted, how the participation of its twenty-one institutions is formally designed, and what sustains and constrains it. A qualitative instrumental single-case design is utilized, drawing on nine core policy documents for 2022–2024 and national statistics to 2025. The corpus, which consists of regulatory instruments rather than accounts given by actors, is analyzed as institutional design analysis confined to rules in form. Constructs presupposing access to actors are excluded rather than inferred. The documentation reveals that approximately one hundred services have been consolidated in one location, but it appears this was achieved through co-location rather than integration. There is an absence of inter-agency data interoperability, and the one independent field study reports its absence in practice. The deficit is clearly defined in the rules as they are written. It is evident that a mayoral regulation lacks the authority to impose binding obligations on the four central vertical agencies that provide essential services to citizens. Furthermore, the existing cooperation agreements conspicuously fail to stipulate enforceable service standards, sanctions, dispute mechanisms, or review schedules. Consequently, participation depends on ongoing consent. A pre-specified search did not yield a published measurement of performance; relative advantage is asserted by adopters and measured privately, if at all, and no claim is made that citizens have obtained it. The hypothesis is that continuity is contingent on documented executive sponsorship and central supervision, rather than fiscal capacity. This proposition is advanced for comparative testing. The study posits that legal consolidation, asset tenure, digitalization, and the publication of performance data should be given due consideration.Keywords: Public service mall, One-stop shop, Governance innovation, Institutional design, Papua.
Y. Murafer, T. L. Safkaur, E. Kocu et al.· Bulletin of Social Studies a...· 0 citations
India’s foreign policy has seen an ideological shift from non-alignment and anti-colonial solidarity to a pragmatic, national interest-based approach which is now described as “Multi-Alignment. This article analyses whether India’s proclaimed neutral and de-hyphenated stance is a genuine display of an independent and autonomous sovereignty specially in relation with Iran, Israel, United States. This article uses a mixed- method of combining textual analysis with statistical data from trade, diplomatic, military partnership, energy security, defence cooperation, and United Nations voting record commencing from 2010 to 2025. The conclusion shows that while India’s official stance continues to rhetorically campaign Palestinian statehood, sovereignty, non-interference due to its ideological posture, yet its practical actions show selective partnerships based on the economical, strategical and geopolitical reasons. To understand the paradox of Indias’s Foreign policy, where it remains formally independent but practically constrained, the article uses the framework of the “bounded strategic autonomy”. India’s choices are restricted by its ongoing requirement to import military hardware, to navigate unequal power dynamics of contemporary world and to balance against China’s geopolitical assertiveness at global forums. This article contributes to the contemporary deliberations about how developing nations conduct their foreign affairs and demonstrate the dynamics of neutrality in multilateral world.
Keywords : Foreign Policy, India, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Multi-alignment, Sovereignty, Strategic Autonomy, United States.
Purpose: This study maps the intellectual structure of corporate governance (CG) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) research between 1976 and 2025, identifies the conditional mechanisms through which governance affects firm outcomes across institutional settings, and derives a comparative research agenda for transition and resource-dependent economies, using Mongolia as a focal case.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Following the PRISMA 2020 protocol, the review employs a three-tier corpus architecture. A mapping corpus of ⟨D1⟩ indexed records retrieved from Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions and EBSCO Business Source is analysed with dedicated bibliometric software (Bibliometrix/biblioshiny in R and VOSviewer) to generate co-authorship networks, keyword co-occurrence maps, co-citation and bibliographic-coupling clusters, and thematic-evolution trajectories. A stratified depth-coded corpus of ⟨D2⟩ works is then coded manually on six dimensions — journal ranking, citation impact, region, methodology, variable selection and theoretical foundation — by two independent coders (Cohen’s κ = ⟨D4⟩). A separately reported supplementary tier of ⟨D3⟩ Mongolian grey and local-language sources supports the country-level gap analysis and is excluded from all citation-impact metrics.
Findings: Agency theory remains the dominant primary framework (37.9% of depth-coded studies), but stakeholder, institutional, resource-dependence and legitimacy theories have grown rapidly since 2018, and 13.8% of studies now combine two or more frameworks explicitly. Panel regression remains the leading method (50.7% of method codes), while quasi-experimental designs (PSM+DiD, event studies, natural experiments) are expanding. The empirical frontier has shifted from the United States and Western Europe toward emerging and frontier markets, which jointly exceed 40% of the corpus. Science mapping confirms ⟨D11⟩ distinct thematic clusters and a keyword trajectory moving from board structure–agency cost toward ESG disclosure–assurance–sustainability committee. Mongolia-focused research reveals a formal legal framework with weak enforcement, a narrow set of measurement constructs, and very limited presence in the international citation network.
Conclusion: CG research is shifting from a single-theory paradigm toward multi-theory, ESG-oriented frameworks that require credible causal identification. Governance effects are conditional on legal origin, ownership concentration and enforcement capacity, so evidence generated in developed markets cannot be transferred uncritically to transition economies.
Practical Implications: The findings inform securities regulators, stock exchanges and listed firms in transition and resource-dependent economies — and in Mongolia specifically — on the design of audit and sustainability committees, ESG disclosure rules aligned with GRI and IFRS S1/S2, and resource-governance transparency mechanisms.
Originality: The study combines PRISMA-based systematic screening with software-based science mapping, and it is the first review to position Mongolia explicitly within a comparative class of transition, resource-dependent, thin-market economies rather than treating it as an isolated national case.
Chinzorig Chuluun, O. Gotov· International journal of res...· 0 citations
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