Laura Doering

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Rotman School of Management

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  • Rotman School of Management

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Rotman School of Management

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 or is forthcoming 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 and Economic Sociology at Rotman.

Academic Positions

2014-2016; 2017-present  Assistant Professor of Strategic Management; University of Toronto

2016-2017  Assistant Professor of Strategy and Organization; McGill University

Honors and Awards

2017-2020  Insight Development Grant; SSHRC

2015-2016  Faculty Grant; Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship

2014  Burt Outstanding Paper Award-Economic Sociology; American Sociological Association

2013-2014  Dissertation-Year Grant; Mellon Foundation

2012  Dissertation Grant; Kauffman Foundation

2011  Fulbright IIE Scholar; Fulbright Foundation

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Books

Freedom from Work (Book Review); Doering, Laura; American Journal of Sociology; Issue: 123(4); 2018; Pages: 1230-1231

Sustainable Enterprise in Panama (Chapter); Doering, Laura; Small, Mauro; The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise; 2016; Pages: 122-128

The Outsider Entrepreneurs (Book Review); Doering, Laura; American Journal of Sociology; Issue: 120(4); 2014; Pages: 1245-47

Papers

  • Freedom from Work (Book Review); Doering, Laura; American Journal of Sociology; Issue: 123(4); 2018; Pages: 1230-1231
  • Sustainable Enterprise in Panama (Chapter); Doering, Laura; Small, Mauro; The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise; 2016; Pages: 122-128
  • The Outsider Entrepreneurs (Book Review); Doering, Laura; American Journal of Sociology; Issue: 120(4); 2014; Pages: 1245-47

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