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Catherine Dolan is affiliated with the School of Oriental and African Studies in the United Kingdom. Their research spans various domains within the social sciences and business disciplines, with a particular focus on innovation, socioeconomic development, and financial inclusion.

The most recent papers authored or co-authored by Dolan include:

  • "Remote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the 'Bottom of the Pyramid'," published in 2021 in Development and Change
  • "Aspiring Minds: 'A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making,'" published in 2021 in Sociological Research Online
  • "Readiness, resilience and the ripple effect: women-owned enterprise in Kenya and the promise of global inclusion," published in 2024 in Critical African Studies
  • "Mutuality Talk in a Family-Owned Multinational," published in 2020 in Journal of Business Anthropology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Dinah Rajak
  • Paul Robert Gilbert
  • Lena Lavinas
  • Emma Mawdsley
  • Farwa Sial

Dolan's publications appear in several academic venues, such as:

  • Development and Change
  • Critical African Studies
  • Sociological Research Online
  • Journal of Business Anthropology

Their main fields of study encompass Social Sciences with four publications and Business, Management and Accounting with three publications. Within these fields, Dolan's work engages subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Key topics addressed in Dolan's research involve:

  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • South African History and Culture
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Their work frequently intersects issues of economic inclusion, social dynamics, and enterprise development, particularly in African contexts. The combination of topics such as microfinance, entrepreneurship, and digital economy reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding socioeconomic shifts.

Best Publications

  • Governance and Trade in Fresh Vegetables: The Impact of UK Supermarkets on the African Horticulture Industry

    Catherine S. Dolan;John Humphrey

  • Changing Governance Patterns in the Trade in Fresh Vegetables between Africa and the United Kingdom

    Catherine Dolan;John Humphrey

  • A Gendered Value Chain Approach to Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture

    Stephanie Barrientos;Catherine Dolan;Anne Tallontire

  • Horticulture Commodity Chains: The Impact of the UK Market on the African Fresh Vegetable Industry

    Catherine Dolan;John Humphrey;Carla Harris-Pascal

  • The Good Wife: Struggles Over Resources in the Kenyan Horticultural Sector

    Catherine S. Dolan

  • Sanitary pad interventions for girls' education in Ghana: a pilot study.

    Paul Montgomery;Caitlin R. Ryus;Catherine S. Dolan;Sue Dopson

  • Business as a development agent: evidence of possibility and improbability

    Michael Blowfield;Catherine S. Dolan

  • Virtual moralities: The mainstreaming of Fairtrade in Kenyan tea fields

    Catherine S. Dolan

  • Enterprise and Inequality: A Study of Avon in South Africa

    Linda Scott;Catherine Dolan;Mary Johnstone-Louis;Kimberly Sugden

  • On farm and packhouse: Employment at the bottom of a global value chain

    Catherine S. Dolan

  • Reaching the marginalised? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture

    Anne Tallontire;Catherine Dolan;Sally Smith;Stephanie Barrientos

  • Stewards of Virtue?: The Ethical Dilemma of CSR in African Agriculture

    Michael E. Blowfield;Catherine S. Dolan

  • Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid

    Catherine Dolan;Dinah Rajak

  • Measuring the prevalence and impact of poor menstrual hygiene management: a quantitative survey of schoolgirls in rural Uganda

    Julie Hennegan;Catherine Dolan;Maryalice Wu;Linda Scott

  • Fairtrade Facts and Fancies: What Kenyan Fairtrade Tea Tells us About Business’ Role as Development Agent

    Michael E. Blowfield;Catherine Dolan

  • Lipstick evangelism: avon trading circles and gender empowerment in South Africa

    Catherine Dolan;Linda Scott

  • Seeking Common Ground

    Catherine S. Dolan;Maggie Opondo

  • Menstruation and the Cycle of Poverty: A Cluster Quasi-Randomised Control Trial of Sanitary Pad and Puberty Education Provision in Uganda

    Paul Montgomery;Julie Hennegan;Catherine Dolan;Maryalice Wu

  • Gender and employment in the Kenya Horticulture value chain

    Catherine S. Dolan;Kirsty Sutherland

  • Gender and Employment in High Value Agriculture Industries (Agriculture and Rural Development Working Paper 7)

    Catherine Dolan;Kristina Sorby

  • The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Catherine Dolan;Dinah Rajak

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Montgomery
Paul Montgomery University of Birmingham
Stephanie Barrientos
Stephanie Barrientos University of Manchester
Sue Dopson
Sue Dopson University of Oxford
John Humphrey
John Humphrey University of Sussex
Peter D. Little
Peter D. Little Emory University
John Ingram
John Ingram University of Oxford
Jerry W. Knox
Jerry W. Knox Cranfield University
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Leon A. Terry
Leon A. Terry Cranfield University

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