My current research projects focus on leadership, identity, functional stupidity in organizations, organizational sludge and excess of regulation in organizations and experiences of bureaucracy and managerial work in universities.  I also do work on qualitative methods, in particular imaginative and creative research, and philosophy of science.

My most recent books include The Art of Less. (Bloomsbury 2025, with André Spicer), Return to Judgement (Bristol University Press, forthcoming, with Dennis Nørmark), Re-imagining the Research Process (Sage 2021, with Jörgen Sandberg), Return to Meaning (Oxford University Press 2017), Reflexive Leadership (Sage, 2017, with Martin Blom and Stefan Sveningsson),The Stupidity Paradox (Profile 2016, with André Spicer), Managerial Lives (Cambridge univ Press 2016, with Stefan Sveningsson),The Triumph of Emptiness (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed 2022), Qualitative Research and Theory Development (Sage 2011, with Dan Kärreman), Constructing Research Questions. (Sage, 2nd ed 2024, with J Sandberg) Interpreting Interviews (Sage, 2nd ed 2024), Reflexive Methodology (Sage, 2018,  2nd ed, with Kaj Skoldberg), Changing Organizational Culture (Routledge 2025 3rd  ed, with Stefan Sveningsson). 

I am a fellow of the British Academy since 2022.  I got the Herbert Simon Reward 2024, Insead Award for Rigour and Relevance in Research 2025 and the International Leadership Association Lifetime Award in 2025.