ESTHER ROCA BATLLORI

ESTHER ROCA BATLLORI

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

I am Lecturer at the Department of Management and Technology since 2013. I obtained my PhD in 1997 from IESE-Universidad de Navarra. Before joining Bocconi, I was Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Administration of Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) and I was officially accreditated as Associated Professor in Spain in 2015. Previously, I also taught at ICADE-Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcellona).


Research interests

My research lies on the intersection between Strategy and Business Ethics. In the last few years, I have studied how firms can benefit from investments in social values and the strategic opportunities and challenges of hybrid companies.


Selected Publications

Fosfuri, Andrea; Giarratana, Marco; Roca Batllori, Esther
Social business hybrids: demand externalities, competitive advantage, and growth through diversification
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 2016

Fosfuri, Andrea; Giarratana, Marco; E. Roca
Community-focused strategies
STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION, 2011

Fosfuri, Andrea; Giarratana, Marco; Roca Batllori, Esther
Walking a slippery line: investments in social values and product longevity
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2015

Fosfuri, Andrea; Giarratana, Marco; E. Roca
Building and Sustaining a Product Differentiation Advantage through a Community-focused Strategy"
INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION, 2013

Roca, Esther
The exercise of moral imagination in stigmatized workgroups
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 2010

Roca, Esther
Introducing practical wisdom in business schools
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 2008

Roca, Esther
Rethinking Aristotelian communities as contemporary organizations
PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT, 2007

Roca, Esther
Intuitive practical wisdom in organizational life
SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY, 2007