Monika Wallmon studies how organisations come to treat certain ways of working, changing, and assuming responsibility as self-evident. Taking a critical perspective on organising, she examines how governance, evaluation, and normative ideals shape responsibility, legitimacy, and scope for action in organisations.

Her research analyses how ideas of entrepreneurship, development, responsibility, and sustainability become established as reasonable, necessary, and desirable, and what happens when such ideals are put into practice. A recurring theme is how governance arrangements may support change and coordination, but may also constrain judgement, displace responsibility, and make established arrangements difficult to question.

Empirically, her work is based primarily on studies of welfare organisations, municipal services, business-support contexts, and digital platforms, where questions of work, responsibility, control, and change become particularly visible.