He heads up the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces (CROW). He was a visiting scholar at Cornell University (2004-2005), Harvard University (2007, 2011-2012), and University of California, Berkeley (2008). He is an elected member of the Young Scholar's Academy of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests include knowledge work, open collaboration projects, a higher education critical management studies. His recent publications include an ethnographic analysis of the Wikipedia community ("Common Knowledge?", 2014 Stanford University Press) and an ethnographic study of software engineers ("The New Knowledge Workers", 2012 Edward Elgar Publishing).