Laura Doering

Laura Doering

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management

Degrees:

PhD in Sociology and Business Administration, University of Chicago
MA in Sociology, University of Chicago
MA in International Social Development, University of New South Wales
BA in Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College

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Personal Website:

http://www.lauradoering.com

Bio

Laura Doering is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management. As an economic sociologist, she examines how interactions and social psychological processes shape outcomes for households, organizations, and markets. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Sociology of Development, and other outlets. Professor Doering’s research and writing has appeared in The New York Times, BBC News, The Globe and Mail, and Salon. She is a Research Fellow at Behavioral Economics in Action at Rotman (BEAR), a Fellow at the Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship, and a Consulting Editor at the American Journal of Sociology.

Selected Publications - Papers

Elaborating on the Abstract: Group Meaning-Making in a Colombian Microsavings Program

Doering, Laura & Kristen McNeill

American Sociological Review

Issue:85(3)

2020

Pages: 417-450
From the Ground Up: Gender, Self-Employment, and Space in a Colombian Housing Project

Doering, Laura & Christopher Liu

Sociology of Development

Issue:5(2)

2019

Pages: 198-224
The (State-Private) Ties that Bind: Status, Occupations, and Economic Development in India

Ranganathan, Aruna & Laura Doering

Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings

Issue:1

2018

Pages: 10794
Risks, Returns and Relational Lending: Personal Ties in Microfinance

Doering, Laura

American Journal of Sociology

Issue:123(5)

2018

Pages: 1341-81
The Effects of Gendered Occupational Roles on Men's and Women's Workplace Authority: Evidence from Microfinance

Doering, Laura and Sarah Thebaud

American Sociological Review

Issue:82(3)

2017

Pages: 542-67
Necessity is the Mother of Isomorphism: Poverty and Market Creativity in Panama

Doering, Laura

Sociology of Development

Issue:2(3)

2016

Pages: 235-64

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

Freedom from Work (Book Review)

Doering, Laura

American Journal of Sociology

Issue:123(4)

2018

Pages: 1230-31
Sustainable Enterprise in Panama (Book Chapter)

Doering, Laura and Mauro Small

The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise

2016

Pages: 122-28
Is Kenya’s Digital Revolution Informalising Financial Inclusion? (Book Chapter)

Yenkey, Christopher, Laura Doering, and Pete Aceves

Kenya’s Financial Transformation in the 21st Century

2015

Pages: 183–210
The Outsider Entrepreneurs (Book Review)

Doering, Laura

American Journal of Sociology

Issue:120(4)

2014

Pages: 1245-47

Honors and Awards

2020-2025

Insight Grant, SSHRC
2020-2021

Research Grant, Institute for Gender and the Economy
2019-present

Fellow, Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship
2018

Best International Paper, Runner-Up, OMT Division of the Academy of Management
2018

Outstanding Article Prize, Honorable Mention, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association
2017-2020

Insight Development Grant, SSHRC
2015-2016

Faculty Grant, Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship
2013-2014

Dissertation-Year Grant, Mellon Foundation
2014

Burt Student Outstanding Paper Award-Economic Sociology, American Sociological Association
2012

Dissertation Grant, Kauffman Foundation
2011

Fulbright IIE Scholar, Fulbright Foundation