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 College London.
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.