Laura Doering
Bio
Laura Doering is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management. As an economic sociologist, her research examines how micro-level decisions, relationships, and circumstances affect economic outcomes in developing countries. Substantively, she 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, Professor Doering’s 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 teaches Social Entrepreneurship, Strategic Change & Implementation, and Economic Sociology.
Academic Positions
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2014-2016; 2017-present
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto
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2016-2017
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Organization, McGill University
Selected Publications - Papers
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Doering, Laura
American Journal of Sociology
Issue:123(5)
2018
Pages: 1341-81
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Doering, Laura and Sarah Thebaud
American Sociological Review
Issue:82(3)
2017
Pages: 542-67
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Doering, Laura
Sociology of Development
Issue:2(3)
2016
Pages: 235-64
Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
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Doering, Laura
American Journal of Sociology
Issue:123(4)
2018
Pages: 1230-31
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Sustainable Enterprise in Panama (Book Chapter)
Doering, Laura and Mauro Small
The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise
2016
Pages: 122-28
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The Outsider Entrepreneurs (Book Review)
Doering, Laura
American Journal of Sociology
Issue:120(4)
2014
Pages: 1245-47
Honors and Awards
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2018
Best International Paper, Runner-Up, OMT Division of the Academy of Management
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2018
Outstanding Article Prize, Honorable Mention, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association
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2017-2020
Insight Development Grant, SSHRC
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2014
Burt Student Outstanding Paper Award-Economic Sociology, American Sociological Association
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2015-2016
Faculty Grant, Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship
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2013-2014
Dissertation-Year Grant, Mellon Foundation
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2012
Dissertation Grant, Kauffman Foundation
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2011
Fulbright IIE Scholar, Fulbright Foundation