Vargha Zsuzsanna | ESCP Business School

Zsuzsanna Vargha

Associate Professor of Performance Measurement and Management

Department : Performance Measurement & Management
Campus : Paris

Zsuzsanna Vargha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Measurement and Management at ESCP Business School, on the Paris campus. Zsuzsanna Vargha’s research is interdisciplinary, bringing together accounting and finance, organisational studies and economic sociology. Her interests have centred on questions of performance and valuation at the boundaries of organisations and markets, specialising in financial services and the digital economy. She has worked on topics such as the strategic design, conduct and control of banking interactions, queue management, professional tensions in advertising, financial expectations and crisis in post-socialist economies, digital health and individual incentivisation, the increasing personalisation of the economy, and the digital transformation of professional services firms. Her research has appeared in interdisciplinary journals such as Organization Studies, Organization, Long Range Planning, Economy and Society, Theory and Society, Journal of Cultural Economy, and Journal of Consumer Culture. She was Editor of the Max Planck Economic Sociology European Electronic Newsletter (ESEEN) and an Executive Council member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). She is currently co-organising SASE Network J: Digital Economy, and a Board member of the Socio-Economic Review. Prior to joining ESCP in 2018, Zsuzsanna held positions in the UK at the University of Leicester Business School and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her PhD in Sociology from Columbia University and has an MSc in Economics (Actuarial Science specialisation) from Budapest Corvinus University in Hungary. After her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Science and Technology Studies Program, and a Visiting Professor at the MaxPo Centre on Instability in Market Societies at Sciences Po. Zsuzsanna supervises theses on organizational-sociological approaches to metrics in markets, organizations and society.

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15 publications

Academic Articles

2025

VARGHA, Z., M. GYORKE

Democratic Dissonance

SOCIOLOGICA, 19, 1, 165–174

Academic Articles

2022

VARGHA, Z., A. E. FENECH , S. KANJI

Gender-based exclusionary practices in performance appraisal

GENDER, WORK AND ORGANIZATION, 29(2), 427-442

ESCP Impact Papers

2022

VARGHA, Z., M. GYÖRKE

From counting to giving account: Citizens auditing the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary elections

ESCP Impact Papers, 2022-26-EN

Academic Articles

2021

VARGHA, Z., L. PELLANDINI-SIMÁNYI

Legal infrastructures: How laws matter in the organization of new markets

ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 42 (6), 867-889

Academic Articles

2021

VARGHA, Z., L. PELLANDINI-SIMÁNYI

Debt trails: following relations of debt across borrowers, organizations, and states

JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY, 14, 2, 127-138

Edited Special Issues

2021

VARGHA, Z., L. PELLANDINI-SIMÁNYI

Debt Trails

JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY, 14, 2, 127-193

Academic Articles

2020

VARGHA, Z., L. PELLANDINI-SIMÁNYI

How risky debt became ordinary: a practice theoretical approach

JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE, 20(2)

Chapters

2019

VARGHA, Z.

Consumer Transactions: Consumer Banking

In: Oxford Handbook of Consumption, Frederick Wherry and Ian Woodward Oxford University Press

Academic Articles

2018

VARGHA, Z.

Assembling lines: queue management and the production of market economy in post-socialist services

JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY, 11 (5), 420-439

Academic Articles

2018

PELLANDINI-SIMÁNYI, L., Z. VARGHA

Spatializing the future: financial expectations, EU convergence and the Eastern European Forex mortgage crisis

ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 47 (2), 280-312

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Academic Articles

2025

Democratic Dissonance

Academic Articles

2022

Gender-based exclusionary practices in performance appraisal

ESCP Impact Papers

2022

From counting to giving account: Citizens auditing the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary elections

Academic Articles

2021

Legal infrastructures: How laws matter in the organization of new markets

Academic Articles

2021

Debt trails: following relations of debt across borrowers, organizations, and states

Edited Special Issues

2021

Debt Trails

Academic Articles

2020

How risky debt became ordinary: a practice theoretical approach

Chapters

2019

Consumer Transactions: Consumer Banking

Academic Articles

2018

Assembling lines: queue management and the production of market economy in post-socialist services

Academic Articles

2018

Spatializing the future: financial expectations, EU convergence and the Eastern European Forex mortgage crisis

Research and expertise

News & events

Events

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