Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Netherlands
fellow
Laura Dupin
2023-2024
Home institution
University of Amsterdam Business School
Country of origin (home institution)
Netherlands
Discipline(s)
Geography
Sociology
Urban and architectural studies
Theme(s)
Cities & States
Environment, Sustainability & Biodiversity
Inequalities, inclusion & Social Innovation
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Laura is a NIAS-Lorentz Team Group Fellow (The Spatial Segregation of Neighborhood Organizations and Entrepreneurs: Connecting Urban Inequality to the Built Environment) during 2023-2024.
Laura Dupin is an Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Amsterdam Business School. She is interested in connecting organization theory with microgeography and the socio-cognitive bases of competition, especially as it relates to market identity and tradition. Her research primarily examines organizations' and entrepreneurs' strategic behavior in the cultural industries. She uses both quantitative and qualitative methods in her empirical work.
Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, Laura obtained her PhD from Emlyon Business School in France in 2020. During her PhD, she was a Visiting Scholar at Bocconi University (2018) as well as at Rotman School of Management, Univeristy of Toronto (2018-2019). She obtained her BA from Dartmouth College (2011).
Her research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Studies and Harvard Business Review.
She was a 2023-2024 research fellow with the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study (NIAS) and is a nominated member of Amsterdam Young Academy. She also co-founded JASEIN to connect assistant professors in the Netherlands across the fields of strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Research Project
The Spatial Segregation of Neighborhood Organizations and Entrepreneurs: Connecting Urban Inequality to the Built Environment
Local organizations and entrepreneurs play a crucial role in urban neighborhoods, connecting and empowering residents by providing resources and access to various aspects of urban life. Integrating the built environment into our understanding of organizations/entrepreneurs in the geo-social landscape is an underexplored area, despite its potential to directly influence social connectivity.
Through an integrated interdisciplinary approach, the NIAS-Lorenz theme group aims to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying the relationship between the built environment, social processes, and neighborhood organizations/entrepreneurs. Amsterdam provides the ideal setting for this research, considering its demographic context and data availability.
As a member of the group, Laura Dupin will explore the relationship between neighborhood organizations/entrepreneurs, the social environment and the built environment. Untangling this complex relationship and identifying causal effects is essential, particularly as businesses and cities reassess their involvement with the built environment due to sustainability concerns and social inequality.
Research Interests:
Built environment and social processes; neighborhood organizations; causal mechanisms in urban sociology; sustainability and inequality
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