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.