University of Tehran Iranian Journal of Public Policy 2538-5577 10 1 2024 05 21 Drivers and Obstacles Support of Street Level Bureaucrats From Policy Innovation; A Case Study of Implementation of Performance-based Budgeting in Iran Drivers and Obstacles Support of Street Level Bureaucrats From Policy Innovation; A Case Study of Implementation of Performance-based Budgeting in Iran 93 106 97823 10.22059/jppolicy.2024.97823 FA Azam Mirzamani Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Farabi Colleges, University of Tehran, Iran Ali Naqi Amiri Full Professor of Public Administration Department, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Farabi Colleges, University of Tehran, Iran Hamidreza Yazdani Associate Professor, Department of Leadership and Investment, Faculties of Management, University of Tehran, Iran Marziyeh Yamani Doctoral Student of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Farabi Colleges, University of Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2024 07 13 One of the challenges of contemporary governments is to face wicked problems and one of the best solutions to face them is policy innovation. The purpose of the current research was to investigate the individual drivers and barriers to support policy innovation by street-level bureaucrats.Therefore, the implementation of the performance-based budgeting policy in Iran was studied using thematic analysis method. This policy was an innovation to solve the wicked problem of the inefficiency of the budgeting system in the public sector.The findings showed that street-level bureaucrats resist the implementation of new policies due to their professionalism, confrontation and alienation from the policy, and encourage employees, support managers for innovation,closely monitor work performance and give feedback, and empowering employees to perform new activities and actions are the drivers of their support for the implementation of new policies. One of the challenges of contemporary governments is to face wicked problems and one of the best solutions to face them is policy innovation. The purpose of the current research was to investigate the individual drivers and barriers to support policy innovation by street-level bureaucrats.Therefore, the implementation of the performance-based budgeting policy in Iran was studied using thematic analysis method. This policy was an innovation to solve the wicked problem of the inefficiency of the budgeting system in the public sector.The findings showed that street-level bureaucrats resist the implementation of new policies due to their professionalism, confrontation and alienation from the policy, and encourage employees, support managers for innovation,closely monitor work performance and give feedback, and empowering employees to perform new activities and actions are the drivers of their support for the implementation of new policies. https://jppolicy.ut.ac.ir/article_97823_df605fbb3f6c8dc76c88d5db7a387f87.pdf