Esther Roca Batllori
Strategy and Operations
Biography
Esther Roca Batllori is a Lecturer at the Department of Management and Technology since 2013.
Before joining Bocconi, she was Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Administration of Universidad Carlos III in Madrid and she was officially accredited as Associated Professor in Spain in 2015. Previously, she also taught at ICADE-Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcellona.
Her research lies on the intersection between Strategy and Business Ethics. In the last few years, she has studied how firms can benefit from investments in social values and the strategic opportunities and challenges of hybrid companies. She is the author of numerous articles on her topics of interest which have been published in the Journal of Organization Science, Strategic Management and Industry and Innovation, among others.
She got her BA in Philosophy at the University Navarra and her Master's in Theory of Management at the University of Navarra-IESE where she obtained her PhD in Philosophy and Organizations in 1997.
Latest publications
Not-invented-here syndrome in Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management
Christian Geisler Asmussen, Niron Hashai, Dana Minbaeva (Eds),Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.314-316, 2024
Social Business Hybrids: Demand Externalities, Competitive Advantage, and Growth Through Diversification
Organization Science, 2016, vol.27, no. 5, pp.1275-1289
Walking a slippery line: Investments in social values and product longevity
Strategic Management Journal, 2015, vol.36, no. 11, pp.1750-1760
Building and Sustaining a Product Differentiation Advantage Through a Community-Focused Strategy
Industry and Innovation, 2013, vol.20, no. 2, pp.114-132
Community-focused strategies
Strategic Organization, 2011, vol.9, no. 3, pp.222-239
The Exercise of Moral Imagination in Stigmatized Work Groups
Journal of Business Ethics, 2010, vol.96, no. 1, pp.135-147