About.

I am an Associate Professor of Financial Technology and Information Systems at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), The University of Manchester.

My expertise lies at the intersection of Information Systems and Political Economy. Using this interdisciplinary lens, I address some of the most pressing challenges associated with digital innovations and their growing centrality in contemporary capitalism.

My research agenda currently focuses on three areas: how financial technology (fintech) firms strategize to achieve ethical missions; the transformation of competitive strategies in the age of artificial intelligence (AI); and how firms can develop sustainable AI strategies.

I am committed to producing rigorous and objective academic research that positively impacts business and society. My work provides solutions for using fintech and AI responsibly, sustainably, and ethically.

Keywords.

I am available for collaborations on:

• Business, societal, political, and environmental implications of artificial intelligence

• Financial technologies and the future of finance

• Financialization and financial innovations

• Digitalization and digital innovations

• Socio-technical perspective in Information Systems

• Institutional theory

• Paradox theory

• Qualitative and conceptual research

Published work.

Lagna, A. (Forthcoming) “Asset Manager Capitalism and the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence”, Review of International Political Economy.

Genito, L., & Lagna, A. (Forthcoming) “Derivatives Market Reforms and the Infrastructural Authority of Central Clearing Counterparties.” In Westermeier, C., Campbell-Verduyn, M., & Brandl, B. (eds.) Cambridge Global Companion to Financial Infrastructures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chapter 22.

Lagna, A., & Ravishankar, M. N. (2022) “Making the World a Better Place with Fintech Research”, Information Systems Journal, 32(1): 61–102.

Lagna, A., & Lenglet, M. (2020) “The Dark Side of Liquidity: Shedding Light on Dark Pools’ Market Making and Marketing”, Consumption Markets & Culture, 23(4): 390–406.

Büdenbender, M., & Lagna, A. (2019) “Statecraft Strategies and Housing Financialization at the Periphery: Post-Socialist Trajectories in Russia and Poland”, Finance and Society, 5(2): 105–125.

Lagna, A. (2017) “The Financialization of Local Governments: Evidence from the Italian Case.” In Erturk, I. and Gabor, D. (eds) The Routledge Companion to Banking Regulation and Reform. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 208–221.

Lagna, A. (2016) “Derivatives and the Financialisation of the Italian State”, New Political Economy, 21(2): 167–186.

Lagna, A. (2015) “Derivatives as Weapons of Mass Deception and Elite Contestation: The Case of FIAT.” In Jessop, B., Young, B. and Scherrer, C. (eds) Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 208–228.

Lagna, A. (2015) “Italian Municipalities and the Politics of Financial Derivatives: Rethinking the Foucauldian Perspective”, Competition & Change, 19(4): 283–300.

Contact me.

Andrea Lagna | He/Him

Alliance Manchester Business School

The University of Manchester

Booth Street West

Manchester M15 6PB

United Kingdom