Shibaab Rahman, Julian Teicher, Julie Wolfram Cox, Quamrul Alam
Abstract We situate public sector leaders as actors who deal with competing institutional demands, and examine how public sector leaders can facilitate reform implementation in the face of institutional inertia in a transitional setting, Bangladesh public administration. Based on 32 interviews with ...
Shibaab Rahman, Prue Burns, Julie Wolfram Cox, Quamrul Alam
Abstract We attempt to reconcile top‐down and bottom‐up perspectives on bureaucratic discretion to understand how actors ‘caught in the middle’, such as middle level public managers, negotiate conflicting demands to exercise discretion in the Bangladesh public administration. To do this, we employ t...
Quamrul Alam, Shibaab Rahman, Julian Teicher
Quamrul Alam, Shibaab Rahman, Sharif Rasel
The purpose of this chapter is to explain the strategic interventions of the Bangladesh state at a micro-level, particularly interventions related to the bureaucratic apparatus, which is one of the main proponents in a developmental state. This chapter discusses how the Bangladeshi bureaucratic appa...
Shibaab Rahman
This thesis contributes to limited understandings of how civil servants in developing countries contribute to positive outcomes in society by exercising leadership. The research undertaken in Bangladesh showed that enacting public leadership in a developing country context is a complex process that ...
Shibaab Rahman
This thesis contributes to limited understandings of how civil servants in developing countries contribute to positive outcomes in society by exercising leadership. The research undertaken in Bangladesh showed that enacting public leadership in a developing country context is a complex process that ...
Shibaab Rahman
This thesis contributes to limited understandings of how civil servants in developing countries contribute to positive outcomes in society by exercising leadership. The research undertaken in Bangladesh showed that enacting public leadership in a developing country context is a complex process that ...
Quamrul Alam, Sharif Rasel, Shibaab Rahman
Few countries in the developing world have shown an exciting promise of economic prosperity as the South Asian country of Bangladesh. The focus of this paper is to explain how the Bangladeshi bureaucratic apparatus has been enhanced and strengthened through state sponsored activities that contribute...
Shibaab Rahman, Quamrul Alam, Julian Teicher, Bernadine Van Gramberg