About.

I am an Associate Professor of Financial Technology at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, and a Visiting Scholar at the Sociology Department, University of California, San Diego.

My research agenda explores two macro phenomena of contemporary capitalism: financialization (i.e., the growing influence of financial markets in today’s world) and digitalization (i.e., the increasing role of digital technologies in human activities). I study both phenomena in their dimensions, intersections, and impacts.

To do so, I draw on several social-scientific fields, mainly International Political Economy (IPE) and Information Systems (IS).

My current research projects explore:

• Ethical financial technologies (fintech).

• Artificial intelligence (AI) in financial markets.

• The sustainability of AI and data-driven technologies.

In my previous work, I am known for having researched ‘state financialization’, particularly the governmental use of financial derivatives.

Keywords.

I am available for collaborations on:

• Fintech and the future of finance

• Business, societal, and political implications of AI

• Financialization and financial innovations

• Digitalization and digital innovations

• Ethics, sustainability, and inclusion

• Socio-technical perspective in IS

• Institutional theory and power

• Qualitative and conceptual research

Published work.

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

Lagna, A. and 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. and 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

University of Manchester

Booth Street West

Manchester M15 6PB

United Kingdom