
Zsuzsanna Vargha is Associate Professor in the Management Control Department at ESCP Europe, Paris campus. Prior to joining ESCP in October 2018, Zsuzsanna held positions in the UK as associate professor of accounting and organization at the University of Leicester Business School, and as LSE Fellow in accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Zsuzsanna received her PhD in Sociology from Columbia University, and has an MSc in Economics (Actuarial Science specialization) from Budapest Corvinus University in Hungary. After her PhD, she was Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, and more recently she was Visiting Scholar at the MIT Science and Technology Studies Program.
Zsuzsanna Vargha’s research is interdisciplinary, bringing together accounting and finance, organization studies and economic sociology. Her interests have centered on questions of performance and valuation at the boundaries of organizations and markets, specializing in financial services and the digital economy. Zsuzsanna 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 incentivization, the increasing personalization of the economy, and the digital transformation of professional services firms. Zsuzsanna’s research has been supported by grants from the Hungarian National Scientific Fund, Wellcome Trust, and the Leverhulme Trust.
Academic Articles
2022
Gender-based exclusionary practices in performance appraisal
GENDER, WORK AND ORGANIZATION, 29(2), 427-442
ESCP Impact Papers
2022
From counting to giving account: Citizens auditing the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary elections
ESCP Impact Papers, 2022-26-EN
Academic Articles
2021
Debt trails: following relations of debt across borrowers, organizations, and states
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY, 14, 2, 127-138
Academic Articles
2021
Legal infrastructures: How laws matter in the organization of new markets
ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 42 (6), 867-889
Edited Special Issues
2021
Debt Trails
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY, 14, 2, 127-193
Academic Articles
2020
How risky debt became ordinary: a practice theoretical approach
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE, 20(2)
Chapters
2019
Consumer Transactions: Consumer Banking
In: Oxford Handbook of Consumption, Frederick Wherry and Ian Woodward Oxford University Press
Academic Articles
2018
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
Spatializing the future: financial expectations, EU convergence and the Eastern European Forex mortgage crisis
ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 47 (2), 280-312
Academic Articles
2018
From gatherers to hunters: technology-led disruption of the professional business model
RISK & REGULATION - Magazine of LSE Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, Winter 2018