Marta Rocchi
Dr.
Marta Rocchi is an Associate Professor in Corporate Governance and Business Ethics at DCU Business School. She previously worked as Research Fellow and Vice-Director of the Markets, Culture and Ethics Research Centre in Rome, Italy. Marta holds a PhD in Business from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) with a specialization on the ethics of finance, and an MSc in Economics and BSc in Economics both from the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). She was appointed Visiting Scholar at the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics (Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA), and she is a founding member of the Virtue Ethics in Business Research Group of the University of Navarra. She was awarded the Irish Academy of Management Business Educator of the Year Award in 2024, the President's Award for Distinctive Approaches in Teaching Innovation in 2023, the 1st prize ex-aequo of the "Ethics and Trust in Finance" Global Award of the Observatoire de la Finance in 2019; the “Society for Business Ethics Founders’ Award” in 2016 as Emerging Scholar of the Society for Business Ethics; and the 2016 Rafael Termes Research Prize on ethics and finance. Marta teaches Business Ethics, Introduction to Business, and Ethics in Finance; her research focuses on virtue ethics in business and finance, the new perspectives of business ethics in the future of work, and the ethical dilemmas of the digital world. She published her research in prestigious journals : Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, and British Journal of Management.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2025 | Moosmayer, D.C.; Rocchi, M.; Ferrero, I. (2025) 'Virtue as Competence: A Conceptual Integration of Competence Thinking with MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics'. British Journal of Management, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Schlag, Martin; Rocchi, Marta; Turnbull, Richard (2024) 'Adam Smith's Virtue of Prudence in E-Commerce: A Conceptual Framework for Users in the E-Commercial Society'. BUSINESS & SOCIETY, 63 (6). [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Capone, L.; Rocchi, M.; Bertolaso, M. (2024) 'Rethinking “digital”: a genealogical enquiry into the meaning of digital and its impact on individuals and society'. AI & Society, 39 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Giarmoleo, F.V.; Ferrero, I.; Rocchi, M.; Pellegrini, M.M. (2024) 'What ethics can say on artificial intelligence: Insights from a systematic literature review'. Business and Society Review, 129 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Schlag, M.; Rocchi, M. (2024) 'Subsidiarity and the logic of gift in business'. Business and Society Review, 129 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Rocchi, M.; Bernacchio, C. (2022) 'The virtues of COVID-19 pandemic: How working from home can make us the best (or the worst) version of ourselves'. Business and Society Review, 127 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Moorkens, Joss; Rocchi, Marta (2021) 'Ethics in the translation industry'. ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF TRANSLATION AND ETHICS, . | |
| 2021 | Rocchi, M.; Ferrero, I.; Beadle, R. (2021) 'Can Finance Be a Virtuous Practice? A MacIntyrean Account'. Business Ethics Quarterly, 31 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Rocchi, Marta and Thunder, David (2019) 'Can a Good Person be a Good Trader? An Ethical Defense of Financial Trading'. Journal of Business Ethics, 159 (1):89-103. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Marta Rocchi and Robert A. Gahl, Jr. (eds) (2019) 'MacIntyre at 90. Critically Reading Virtue, Flourishing, and Narrative within Tradition'. Acta Philosophica, 28 (2). | |
| 2019 | Marta Rocchi, Robert A. Gahl, Jr. (2019) 'Presentation. MacIntyre at 90. Critically Reading Virtue, Flourishing, and Narrative within Tradition'. Acta Philosophica, 28 (2):197-203. | |
| 2017 | Ferrero, Ignacio and Rocchi, Marta (2017) 'Wall Street y la (ir)relevancia de la ética: la formación de carácter de los analistas financiaros'. (26):101-123. |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | Giarmoleo, F.V.; Rocchi, M.; Ferrero, I. (2024) 'Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Virtue Ethics Approach' In: Disruptive Digitalisation and Platforms: Risks and Opportunities of the Great Transformation of Politics, Socio-economic Models, Work, and Education. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Rocchi, M.; Bernacchio, C. (2023) 'Digital Technologies and the Future of Work: An Agent-Centred Ethical Perspective Based on Goods, Norms, and Virtues' In: Palgrave Studies in Digital Business and Enabling Technologies. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Murphy, B.; Rocchi, M. (2021) 'Ethics and Cloud Computing' In: Palgrave Studies in Digital Business and Enabling Technologies. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Rocchi, M.; Redín, D.; Ferrero, I. (2020) 'Practical Wisdom in the Recovery of Virtue Ethics' In: Handbook of Practical Wisdom in Business and Management. Cham : Springer. [Link] | |
| 2020 | Ferrero, I.; Roncella, A.; Rocchi, M. (2020) 'A Virtue Ethics Approach in Finance' In: International Handbooks in Business Ethics. Cham : Springer. | |
| 2018 | Sison, Alejo José G. and Ferrero, Ignacio and Guitián, Gregorio and Rocchi, Marta and Roncella, Andrea (2018) 'A Virtue Ethics Approach to Finance' In: Business Ethics. A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach. New York : Routledge. | |
| 2018 | Ferrero, Ignacio and Rocchi, Marta and McNulty, Robert (2018) 'No Ethics, No Heroes. How Immorality Flattens Wall Street Characters' In: Global Finance on Screen. From Wall Street to Side Street. New York : Routledge. | |
| 2016 | Ferrero, Ignacio and Rocchi, Marta (2016) 'Teaching Ethics in Finance Curricula: Personal and Institutional Virtues in Financial Markets' In: Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum. New York : Business Expert Press. |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2019 | Rocchi, Marta (2019) 'Technomoral Financial Agent: Ethics in the Fintech Era' (46-47) :25-42. [Link] | |
| 2016 | Rocchi, Marta; Ferrero, Ignacio (2016) 'Wall Street y la (ir)relevancia de la ética. La formación del carácter de los analistas financieros [Wall Street and the (ir)relevance of ethics. The formation of financial analysts' character' :7-35. | |
| 2017 | Rocchi, Marta and Ferrero, Ignacio and McNulty, Robert (2017) 'Margin Call: What If John Tuld Were Christian? Thomistic Practical Wisdom in Financial Decision-Making' 01/17 . | |
| 2016 | Rocchi, Marta (2016) 'Recensión: Melé' XIX (2) :181-183. | |
| 2014 | Rocchi, Marta and Ferrero, Ignacio (2014) 'Systematic Shared Value: Revisiting Porter and Kramer's Creating Shared Value' 07/14 . |
Conference Publication
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Bertolaso, M.; Rocchi, M. (2022) Specifically human: Human work and care in the age of machines [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Ferrero, I.; Rocchi, M.; Pellegrini, M.M.; Reichert, E. (2020) Practical wisdom: A virtue for leaders. Bringing together Aquinas and Authentic Leadership [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Ferrero, Ignacio; Rocchi, Marta; Pellegrini, Massimiliano; Reichert, Elizabeth (2019) European Academy of Management Practical Wisdom: A Virtue for Leaders |
Editorial
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2019 | Rocchi, Marta; Gahl, Robert A., Jr. (2019) PRESENTATION. ED [DOI] |
Online Article
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2020 | Murphy, B.; Rocchi, M. (2020) Automating Accounting Ethics. ELEA [Link] | |
| 2020 | Marta Rocchi (2020) 5 Tips for Third-Level Students Working from Home. ELEA [Link] | |
| 2019 | Marta Rocchi (2019) What are Industry 4.0's ethical challenges?. ELEA [Link] | |
| 2018 | Rocchi, Marta (2018) Il dottore sei tu: diagnosi a portata di smartphone?. ELEA | |
| 2018 | Rocchi, Marta; Thunder, David (2018) The ethics of business: can a good person be a good trader?. ELEA [Link] |
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Honors and Awards
Research Interests
Ethics of the digital world; business ethics; virtue ethics; leadership; future of work; ethics and artificial intelligence.