Journal of Economics, Social, and Humanities

Between Growth and Green: Rethinking the Politics of Decoupling in Emerging Economies

Muhammad Qeyas — 2025-08-31

With the rising environmental crisis, guided by growing economic interests, the notion of decoupling economic growth and environmental degradation has become a mainstream idea across the world. A sense of pressure is emerging in economies like Indonesia, which are compelled to grow by complying with sustainability goals, highlighting a profound need to re-evaluate whether decoupling is a viable and fair approach. This paper examines the political, structural, and institutional feasibility of absolute decoupling by conducting a comparison between policy frameworks in developed and emerging economies, such as Denmark, Sweden, China, and Indonesia. The study employs a qualitative comparative policy analysis and thematic review to discuss how green growth approaches, including the concepts of a circular economy and transitions to renewable energy, are converted into practice. The results indicate that while countries such as Denmark and Sweden has made notable progress, Indonesia continues to face structural barriers, policy incoherence, and budgetary constraints. The research indicates that the concept of decoupling, as it is presented, is possibly a type of ecological idealism that overlooks history, economics, and geopolitics in the Global South. It proposes a new understanding of prosperity, advocating an understanding of sustainability that has a justice orientation beyond GDP-oriented growth. Decoupling should move beyond a technical undertaking to a political initiative, one based on planetary boundaries, socio-economic fairness, and post-colonial political independence.

Effect of Information Technology on Organizational Performance at Yemeni Oil Exploration–Production Company

Baligh Al Haj — 2025-08-31

This research paper examines the influence of six essential information technology factors; human resource capabilities, devices and equipment, communication networks, software applications, databases, and information security on organization performance in the Yemeni Oil Exploration and Production company, a situation that is characterized by political instability and limited resources. By using the constructs of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of the Theory of Technology Acceptance Model, a cross-sectional survey of 202 employees, who were selected using stratified-random sampling process, was conducted. Questionnaires collected the data and were thoroughly validated and analyzed based on a descriptive analysis, classical assumption test, and multiple regression. Results show that the strongest positive short-term predictors of operational efficiency, speed of decision-making, service quality, and financial results are communication networks (β = 0.442, p < .001), databases (β = 0.216, p < .001), and human resource skills (β = 0.185, p < .001). There is also a positive contribution of software (β = 0.067, p<.01) and information security (β = 0.056, p<.05) and together they explain 68.6% of the variance in performance (Adjusted R² = 0.686) Devices and equipment, on the contrary, showed a small negative influence (β = – 0.078, p < .05) which shows that mere acquisition them without proper planning might not be effective. Such findings highlight the importance of ensuring strong communication infrastructures and user-focused adoption projects within resource-poor, unstable environments and provides easily applied advice on IT investment and capacity-building projects in such environments.

Government Budget: Good Governance and Human Capital for Poverty Alleviation in Central Java

Agus Arifin — 2025-08-31

Good governance can be reflected in an integrated and clean system, supported by adequate quality human resources in achieving organizational goals (government, private, etc.) effectively and efficiently. One of the main goals of successful development is to improve community welfare, one indicator of which is reduced poverty (SDG number 1). To realize this goal, government budget allocation is needed for poverty alleviation. This research aims to analyze good governance and the quality of human resources in managing the poverty alleviation budget. The research method used is multiple regression with poverty as the dependent variable. The independent variables representing the budget are local own-source revenue (LOSR), fiscal balance (FB), capital expenditure (CE), social aid (SA), while the independent variable representing the quality of human resources is the human development index (HDI). The results show that (1) from the budget side, LOSR, FB, and SA can reduce poverty, while CE has no effect; (2) from the quality of human resources, HDI HDI is not strong enough to influence poverty even though the direction of its influence is appropriate.. The implications are: (1) From the revenue side, LOSR and FB, can be important variables for poverty alleviation, but they must be managed with good, clean, and correct budgets; (2) From the expenditure side, only SA can be a variable for poverty alleviation, but its influence is very small, so it needs better management; (3) The human development index remains an important variable in proper budget management to address poverty, but it takes longer to develop higher quality and competent human resources.

Exploring Developing World’s Readiness to Adopt Society 5.0: Pakistan’s Case in Point

Aamina Urooj — 2025-08-31

Society 5.0, advocates for a future in which technological advancement is guided by human-centered values. In simple terms it aims to create a super-smart society by integrating cyberspace and physical space with the aim of fostering a more inclusive, sustainable, and balanced society. originally envisioned in Japan, the Japanese government has been actively promoting it to address challenges like an aging population, economic stagnation and environmental concern. Some developed nations (e.g. Germany) have begun aligning their systems with similar vision. Although Pakistan, as a developing nation, remains at an early stage of digital transformation due to its unique socio-economic and infrastructural conditions, the article will explore Pakistan’s potential to adopt the principles of Society 5.0 by examining key challenges and opportunities across governance and broader socio-economic systems. Despite growing global interest in Society 5.0, existing literature largely focuses on advanced economies, leaving limited understanding of how developing countries like Pakistan might engage with this paradigm shift. Thus, employing a qualitative exploratory approach, this article assesses Pakistan’s readiness for Society 5.0.

The Mediating Role of Organizational Learning and Supply Chain Management Practices: Influence of Knowledge Management Capabilities on Organizational Performance

Sinta Putri Anggraini — 2025-08-31

The increasing complexity of business environments demands that organizations, especially MSMEs, develop their internal capabilities to remain competitive and sustainable. This study aims to analyze the effect of knowledge management capability on organizational performance, mediated by organizational learning and supply chain management practices. A quantitative approach was employed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), with data collected through questionnaires from 97 furniture MSME actors in Yogyakarta. The results show that knowledge management capability does not directly enhance organizational performance but has a positive effect through organizational learning as a mediator. In contrast, supply chain management practices do not have a positive impact on organizational performance, either directly or as a mediator. These findings highlight the importance of organizational learning in improving the performance of furniture MSMEs in Yogyakarta.