Caroline Whitfield

Caroline Whitfield is a Researcher at the Hunter Centre For Entrepreneurship, Strategy And Innovation specializing in entrepreneurship and female leadership within social sciences contexts. Holding a Doctor of Philosophy, her work focuses on economically marginalized women entrepreneurs in developing regions including Egypt and India.

Her research interests encompass Entrepreneurship, Female Leadership, Family Business, Social Sciences, Economics, Urban Development, and Investment. Whitfield investigates cultural tensions in female entrepreneurial leadership, particularly examining how archetypes shape leadership dynamics in Indian family enterprises and how urban poor communities in Egypt navigate pandemic-related business disruptions.

Analysis of her publications reveals consistent focus on gendered leadership frameworks within family businesses across emerging economies, with methodological emphasis on qualitative case studies and cultural contextualization. Her work bridges theoretical leadership models with practical socioeconomic challenges in non-Western business environments.

Whitfield contributed as Researcher to the internally funded project "Navigating COVID-19 related transitions and transformations of economically marginalised women entrepreneurs within urban poor communities of the Greater Cairo Region in Egypt" (June 2020-February 2021), collaborating with investigators from multiple institutions on this Egypt-focused study of women entrepreneurs during pandemic disruptions.