Avgoustaki Argyro | ESCP Business School

Argyro Avgoustaki

Full Professor of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations

Department : Management
Campus : London

Argyro Avgoustaki is a Professor of Management at ESCP Business School, where she has been teaching graduate courses in Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, and Research Methods. She has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University Management School and the Department of Management at Bayes Business School. She is currently a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Imperial Business School. Her interests lie at the intersection of human resource management and industrial relations. Some of the topics she has researched are the role of high-performance work practices, such as incentive pay, on performance, flexible working arrangements, and the antecedents and outcomes of employee work effort. She has published in the Journal of Management, ILR Review, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Review of Financial Analysis, and Economic and Industrial Democracy. Her work has also been covered in media outlets such as the Financial Times, FT China, Business Insider UK, Le Monde, Le Figaro, The Daily Mail, Insider, CNBC, Le Soir, The Guardian, Women’s Health, New Scientist, Entrepreneur, MDR Radio, and the World Economic Forum. She is one of the founders of CYGNA, a network of female scholars. She is also a member of the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, and the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). Argyro Avgoustaki holds a PhD in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a Master’s degree in Business Economics and Management from M.A.I.Ch , both with distinction. In 2014–2015, she completed the Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, HBS Executive Education at Harvard Business School.

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How people view telework depends on factors beyond the organisation

LSE Business Review

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Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

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AI in Higher Education Summit 2026 – Paris, 17–18 March

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

2021

Human Resource Management Track for British Academy of Management

Full Paper Award - Highly Commended Full paper submission for the

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Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

Events

AI in Higher Education Summit 2026 – Paris, 17–18 March

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

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ESCP Impact Papers

2025

AI in Human Resource management: Implications for work effort and employee satisfaction

Academic Articles

2024

To telework or not to telework: Does the macro context matter? A signalling theory analysis of employee interpretations of telework in times of turbulence

Academic Articles

2024

Flexible Working and Employee Well-being: Why does the Difference Between Formal FWAs and Informal flexibility I-deals matter?

Academic Articles

2023

The Impact of Human Resource Practices on Corporate Investment Efficiency

Academic Articles

2023

All work intensity is not created equal: Effort motives, job satisfaction and quit intentions at a grocery chain

Academic Articles

2023

New ways of working and the implications for employees: A systematic framework and suggestions for future research

Academic Articles

2022

Employee participation and representation in Central and Eastern Europe

Academic Articles

2022

Beyond Reward Expectancy: How Do Periodic Incentive Payments Influence the Temporal Dynamics of Performance?

ESCP Impact Papers

2022

Employee experiences of telework in times of crisis

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2022

How people view telework depends on factors beyond the organisation

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.Cañibano, A. and Avgoustaki, A., 2024. To telework or not to telework: Does the macro context matter? A signalling theory analysis of employee interpretations of telework in times of turbulence.

2021

Full Paper Award - Highly Commended Full paper submission for the

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