---
id: "pisquared:interview/doering-laura"
type: "Pi-Squared interview"
title: "Anita McGahan in conversation with Laura Doering"
url: "https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/doering-laura"
date: "2025-07-09"
people: ["Anita McGahan","Laura Doering"]
summary: "Laura Doering is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, where she is cross-appointed in the Department of Sociology..."
recording: "https://vimeo.com/1100107508"
source: "Pi-Squared (pisquared.theburnescenter.org), The Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Anita McGahan in conversation with Laura Doering

Laura Doering, Associate Professor, University of Toronto · 9 July 2025

## About the guest

Laura Doering is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, where she is cross-appointed in the Department of Sociology. Trained at the University of Chicago as an economic sociologist, Laura examines how social interactions and social psychology shape outcomes particularly in low-income settings, including India, Colombia, and Kenya. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Sociological Science, Sociology of Development, and Journal of Business Venturing, and has been cited across the business press.

## Related resources

- [University of Toronto website on Laura](https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/the-rotman-experience/our-community/people/doering-laura/)
- [Laura’s personal website](https://www.lauradoering.com/)
- [A recent paper on loan officers who provide finance to necessity entrepreneurs](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883902622000015)
- [Paper on sanctions in volunteerism](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/717102)
- [Paper on self-doubt and gender discrimination](https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10-18-501/)

## Recording

Video: https://vimeo.com/1100107508

## Category

[Where Do We Go From Here?](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/category/where-next)

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Original page: https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/doering-laura · Licence: none stated