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Book Chapters

Rahman S; Dickinson H, 2025, 'Evaluating Leadership in Health Services', in Handbook of Health Services Evaluation Theories Methods and Innovative Practices, pp. 331 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87869-5_18

Rahman S; Alam Q; Teicher J; Wolfram Cox J, 2023, 'A historical analysis of the formation of the Bangladesh public administration as an institutionally complex system', in Alam Q; Khair R; Shahan A (ed.), State, Market and Society in an Emerging Economy Development and the Political Economy of Bangladesh, Routledge, https://primoa.library.unsw.edu.au/permalink/61UNSW_INST/1m02euc/alma9951461804001731

Alam Q; Rahman S; Teicher J, 2022, 'Retracing Accountability in the Bangladeshi Public Administration', in The Emergence of Bangladesh

Alam Q; Rahman S; Rasel S, 2020, 'Catalysing the entrepreneurial spirit in a developmental state', in The Economic Development of Bangladesh in the Asian Century Prospects and Perspectives, Routledge

Journal articles

Rahman S; Connor J; Dickinson H; Henne K; McDermott V, 2026, 'Navigating complexity: A relational perspective on generative AI adoption in government', Australian Journal of Public Administration, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.70044

Rahman S; Beamish A; Althaus C, 2026, 'From fragmentation to integration: reframing adaptive leadership through an integrative review', Management Review Quarterly, pp. 1 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11301-026-00593-1

Rahman S; Burns P; Wolfram Cox J; Alam Q, 2024, 'Exercising bureaucratic discretion through selective bridging: A response to institutional complexity in Bangladesh', Public Administration and Development, 44, pp. 61 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pad.2036

Rahman S; Teicher J; Cox JW; Alam Q, 2023, 'Slipstreaming for Public Sector Reform: How Enterprising Public Sector Leaders Navigate Institutional Inertia', Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 33, pp. 4 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muac006

Conference Papers

Burns Prue ; Rahman S, 2023, '"Reintegrative" Firms and Their Defiance of the Institutional Context: An Inhabited Institutions Perspective on Firms that Hire Former Prisoners', Melbourne, presented at XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, 25 June 2023

Conference Presentations

Blackman D; Althaus C; Weeratunga V; Dickinson H; Rahman S; Schmidtchen D, 2025, 'Does understanding relationality enable adaptive leaders to shift complex systems?', presented at International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) conference, Bologna, Italy, 07 April 2025 - 09 April 2025


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