Aug 2026· JRTI (Jurnal Riset Tindakan Indonesia)· Vol 11, pp. 709-724· 0 citations· 51 references
Abstract
Indonesia's decentralized government relies on collaboration across ministries, regional agencies, villages, public-service units, businesses, universities, civil-society organizations, and communities. This review analyzes how such coordination is converted into integrated policy, joint implementation, and public value. A PRISMA-aligned search of indexed journal literature published in 2020-2025 identified 74 records; 35 articles remained after duplicate removal, screening, full-text assessment, and index verification. The corpus comprised 26 qualitative case/process studies, four mixed or quantitative studies, and five review, policy, or conceptual articles. Because designs and outcomes were heterogeneous, the study used structured extraction, design-sensitive methodological appraisal, and hybrid deductive-inductive thematic synthesis rather than statistical pooling. The synthesis indicates that collaboration is warranted when authority, knowledge, implementation capacity, and legitimacy are distributed across organizations; hierarchy remains necessary for legal authority, minimum standards, rapid command, and accountability. Five conditions repeatedly distinguish substantive collaboration from ceremonial participation: an authoritative mandate linked to resources, facilitative and boundary-spanning leadership, explicit roles and decision rights, integration of plans-budgets-data-workflows, and accountability for citizen outcomes. The proposed Indonesian Collaborative Government Management Cycle connects problem interdependence, actor architecture, shared intelligence, policy integration, joint delivery, and public-value learning. Its theoretical contribution is to position policy integration as the conversion mechanism between collaborative process and service outcomes, while treating mandated participation, decentralization capacity, power asymmetry, cultural legitimacy, and digital interoperability as contextual conditions.
Background. Indonesia’s decentralised governance has devolved substantial authority to sub-national governments, yet regional development outcomes remain spatially uneven and institutionally fragmented.
Purpose. This review synthesises how strategic management is conceptualised and applied in Indonesian regional development, and how governance, public policy, and sustainability considerations shape that practice.
Method. Following PRISMA 2020, a Scopus search returned 486 records; after screening by document type, language, publication window (2021–2026), and thematic relevance, 62 English-language articles and reviews were synthesised through bibliometric description and thematic analysis.
Results. Five interlocking themes emerged: strategic management in regional development, governance and institutional capacity, public policy, sustainable development, and digital transformation. The evidence shows that strategy in Indonesian regions is enacted less through formal planning documents than through the interplay of institutional capacity, multi-level coordination, and stakeholder collaboration.
Implications. Strengthening dynamic capabilities, aligning fiscal and regulatory instruments, and institutionalising collaborative governance are pivotal for translating regional plans into measurable development gains.
Originality. The study offers the first theory-driven synthesis integrating the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities, institutional theory, and stakeholder theory to explain strategic regional development in a large decentralised emerging economy, and proposes a forward-looking research agenda.
R. Siregar, Syahrul Gunawan· Journal of Management Resear...· 0 citations
The Indonesian government has invested heavily in digital transformation to address persistent challenges in public service delivery, financial accountability, and bureaucratic efficiency. Despite growing adoption of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and e-government platforms, a systemic synthesis of how these digital tools collectively reshape governance and accountability mechanisms remains lacking. This systematic literature review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 guidelines. A structured search was conducted in the Scopus database for peer-reviewed, open-access, English-language journal articles published between 2016 and 2026, focusing explicitly on the Indonesian public sector. Out of 217 initially screened records, 10 studies met the eligibility criteria after title-abstract and full-text screening. Data were extracted using a standardized form, assessed for risk of bias, and synthesized thematically across the included studies. The synthesis identifies three interconnected mechanisms through which digitalization influences Indonesian public governance. First, digital technologies such as computer-assisted audit techniques, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence enhance financial fraud detection and oversight effectiveness, yet their full potential is constrained by incomplete regulatory frameworks for electronic evidence and insufficient auditor competence. Second, digital service innovations improve operational efficiency and public service quality, but these benefits are contingent upon adequate digital leadership, information technology governance, and a culture supportive of organizational change. Third, institutional reforms driven by integrated information systems strengthen transparency and accountability, while being significantly hindered by governance fragmentation, weak enforcement of interoperability standards, and persistent digital divides across regions. Successful digital transformation of the Indonesian public sector depends less on the mere acquisition of technology and more on synergistic institutional reforms, continuous human capacity building, and legal harmonization. These findings provide evidence-based guidance for policymakers and practitioners to align digital initiatives with the broader objectives of accountable, transparent, and responsive governance in developing economy contexts.
Regional Commissioners (RCs) occupy a strategically important position between Tanzania’s central government and the authorities responsible for district- and council-level implementation. Yet their contribution to sustainable development has received limited empirical attention. This qualitative case study examines how RCs understand and exercise their authority to coordinate development across sectors and administrative levels, and how leadership competence shapes that role. Data were generated through semi-structured interviews with ten serving and five former RCs, supplemented by documentary review and contextual observation, and analysed thematically. Sustainable development is treated not as a single outcome attributable to an individual office-holder, but as a governance process requiring policy integration, territorial equity, institutional continuity, public accountability and attention to long-term social, economic and environmental consequences. Participants portrayed RCs as brokers of national priorities, convenors of sectoral and security institutions, and influential actors in district-level implementation. They also emphasised that formal authority does not produce effective coordination automatically: its developmental value depends on competence, credibility, sectoral knowledge and the capacity to anticipate interactions among policy fields. Concentrated authority can accelerate implementation, but it may also weaken participation and accountability when directives are insufficiently questioned. The study therefore recommends a transparent competency framework, systematic induction, performance assessment and stronger accountability safeguards for RC appointments. It concludes that RCs can enable sustainable regional development, but their contribution remains institutionally mediated and should not be inferred from authority or short-term output gains alone.
Gabriel Adamson King, L. Massoi· Journal of Research and Acad...· 0 citations
This integrative review examines digital transformation in public administration with particular attention to regional and subnational governments in emerging economies and concludes that subnational digital transformation should be governed as long-term institutional reform rather than as a sequence of isolated technology projects.
Celso Urbieta, Gabriel Lusena Ábrego· Revista de Estudos Interdisc...· 0 citations
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
This PRISMA-guided systematic literature review synthesizes research on change management in Greek Local Government Organizations published between 2005 and 2025. Searches across four academic sources yielded 159 records, of which 48 met the inclusion criteria. The reviewed studies were classified into four thematic strands: crises, administrative reforms and resilience; environmental challenges and climate adaptation; e-government and accounting information systems; and urban planning and territorial governance. The findings indicate growing scholarly attention to municipal change but reveal a persistent focus on external drivers, including economic crises, digitalization, climate change, and institutional reforms, while providing limited insight into the organizational processes and capabilities through which change is managed within municipalities. By offering the first systematic synthesis of this literature, the review contributes to public administration and local governance scholarship and highlights the need for future research on organizational capabilities, leadership, learning mechanisms, and strategic change management under conditions of continuous and overlapping transitions.
Panagiotis Zisis, K. Katsaros, G. Beligiannis· European Scientific Journal· 0 citations
