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. Bases on 32 interviews with current and former Bangladeshi civil servants and local public administration experts supported by secondary analysis of government documents, our evidence shows that public sector leaders operating within multiple logics are agentic in contributing to reform. However, these leaders also become constrained by institutional pressures that threaten their legitimacy and may face sanctions for pursuing local changes. Although public sector leaders typically engage in resistance to reform, our evidence shows that public sector leaders can create enterprising avenues of change, adeptly exercising agency and utilizing existing institutional logics as a conduit to introducing a new institutional order. Our principal contribution is to identify slipstreaming as a means by which institutional actors negotiate institutional logics and facilitate change despite institutional inertia.

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公共部门改革顺势而为：有进取心的公共部门领导者如何驾驭制度惯性

我们将公共部门领导者定位为处理相互竞争的制度需求的参与者，并研究公共部门领导者如何在孟加拉国公共行政过渡环境中面对制度惯性促进改革实施。基于对现任和前任孟加拉国公务员和当地公共行政专家的 32 次采访，并辅​​以对政府文件的二次分析，我们的证据表明，在多种逻辑下运作的公共部门领导人对改革做出了积极贡献。然而，这些领导人也受到威胁其合法性的制度压力的约束，并可能因追求地方变革而受到制裁。尽管公共部门领导人通常会抵制改革，我们的证据表明，公共部门的领导者可以创造进取的变革途径，熟练地行使代理权并利用现有的制度逻辑作为引入新制度秩序的渠道。我们的主要贡献是将滑流确定为制度参与者协商制度逻辑并促进变革的一种手段，尽管制度惯性。