My research explores how independent and civil society-embedded organizations navigate and respond to the rise of illiberalism and how it affects firms, managers, and our long-standing management theories. I mainly employ qualitative methods (i.e., ethnography and in-depth interviews), and my work contributes to institutional theory, the literature on the political aspects of organizing and grand challenges.

In my first empirical paper, I focus on the future-making activities of three independent Hungarian newspapers, while my second empirical article examines the independent theater scene under the illiberal government of Viktor Orbán. In a review article, with my co-authors (Pursey Heugens and Wenjie Liu), I study what managing under illiberalism means for business firms. 

Previously, I have published on the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric of Viktor Orbán and on the rise of private art museums.