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 micro-level decisions, relationships, and circumstances affect economic outcomes in developing countries. Substantively, Professor Doering focuses on entrepreneurship and financial access in low-income areas. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Sociology of Development. A former Fulbright Scholar, her research has been profiled in The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, and her writing has appeared in BBC News, CBS News, Salon, and other outlets. She is a Fellow at the Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship, a Research Fellow at Behavioral Economics in Action at Rotman (BEAR), and a Consulting Editor at the American Journal of Sociology.

Selected Publications - Papers

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
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
The Outsider Entrepreneurs (Book Review)

Doering, Laura

American Journal of Sociology

Issue:120(4)

2014

Pages: 1245-47

Honors and Awards

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
2014

Burt Student Outstanding Paper Award-Economic Sociology, American Sociological Association
2015-2016

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

Dissertation-Year Grant, Mellon Foundation
2012

Dissertation Grant, Kauffman Foundation
2011

Fulbright IIE Scholar, Fulbright Foundation