- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- ritchie@iss.nl
Profile
Holly Ritchie is a (post-doctorate) research fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), part of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). In 2013, she obtained her PhD (Cum Laude) at the ISS. She also works as a independent development consultant. She has a background in finance, international development (MA) and enterprise development with experience in Afghanistan (10 years), Kenya, Ethiopia, Somaliland, South Sudan, the Middle East and Brazil.
Dr. Holly Ritchie has a strong interest in institutions, gender, and innovation in ‘fragile’ economic development. Her research and work has looked in particular at (poorer) women’s enterprise participation in marginalised, conflict and refugee settings. She focuses on social inclusion/integration in business and value chains, and looks ahead to social outcomes from economic empowerment.
- H.A. Ritchie (2018). Gender and enterprise in fragile refugee settings: female empowerment amidst male emasculation—a challenge to local integration? Disasters, 42, S40. doi: 10.1111/disa.12271
- H.A. Ritchie (2016). Unwrapping institutional change in fragile settings: women entrepreneurs driving institutional pathways in Afghanistan. World Development, 83, 39. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.03.007
- H.A. Ritchie (2019). Investigating Gender and Enterprise in “Fragile” Refugee Settings: The Use of Critical Realism to Explore Institutional Dynamics and Change. UK: SAGE Publications Ltd [go to publisher's site] doi: 10.4135/9781526494917
- H.A. Ritchie (2016). Institutional Innovation and Change in Value Chain Development: Negotiating Tradition, Power and Fragility in Afghanistan. UK: Routledge [go to publisher's site]
- H.A. Ritchie (2019). Challenging the Status Quo from the Bottom Up? Gender and Enterprise in Somali Migrant Communities in Nairobi, Kenya. In N. Carrier & T. Scharrer (Eds.), Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa (Integration and Conflict Studies, 20) (pp. 168-201). Oxford: Berghann Books [go to publisher's site]
- H.A. Ritchie (2017). Negotiating Traditional Norms and Barriers in Women’s Fragile Economic Development in Afghanistan. In People, Aid and Institutions in Socio-economic Recovery: Facing Fragilities. UK: Taylor & Francis doi: 10.4324/9781315690759-6
- H.A. Ritchie (2016). At the Frontier of Economic Development: Unravelling Institutional Change in Fragile Environments. In Local Governance, Economic Development and Institutions. UK: Palgrave Macmillan doi: 10.1057/9781137557599_12
- G.M. Gomez & H.A. Ritchie (2016). The Institutional Foundations of Civic Innovation. In K. Biekart, W. Harcourt & P. Knorringa (Eds.), Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation (Routledge Studies in Development Economics) (pp. 20-40). Abington, UK; New York, NY: Routledge
- H.A. Ritchie (2018). Exploring Refugees and ICTs: Innovating Towards Inclusion and Integration in Fragile Environments? (Preprints). : Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa
- H.A. Ritchie (2014). Rethinking ‘entrepreneurship’in fragile environments: Lessons learnt in Somali women’s enterprise, human security and inclusion.
- H.A. Ritchie (2013). Examining women in enterprise development in Afghanistan.
- H.A. Ritchie (2012). A quiet revolution through the vehicle of enterprise A women’s food processing business in Afghanistan.
- H.A. Ritchie (2006). Aid Effectiveness in Afghanistan: At a Crossroads.
- H.A. Ritchie (2013, september 26). Negotiating tradition, power and fragility in Afghanistan: institutional innovation and change in value chain development. EUR (399 pag.) (Rotterdam: Erasmus University, ISS International Institute of Social Studies) Prom./coprom.: prof.dr. A.H.J. Helmsing & prof.dr. P. Knorringa. [go to publisher's site]
(external) researcher
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- Department
- Academic staff unit