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Corinna Frey-Heger
Assistant Professor
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Corinna Frey-Heger is an Assistant Professor in the Business-Society Management department.  As a qualitative scholar, she draws on organization theory (institutional theory, practice theory, pragmatism) to better understand organization's responses to grand challenges and wicked problems, such as global displacement. Currently, she is particularly interested in how organizations' responses to these problems intensify the very problems they are meant to solve. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in refugee camps in Rwanda and Lebanon. She completed her PhD in 2018 at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation on 'Organizing in times of global displacement and refugee crises' won the SAMS Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019.

Publications

Academic (2)
  • Frey-Heger, C., Gatzweiler, M. K., & Hinings, C. R. (2021). No End In Sight: How regimes form barriers to addressing the wicked problem of displacement. Organization Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406211044869

  • Frey - Heger, C., & Barrett, M. (2020). Possibilities and limits of social accountability: The consequences of visibility as recognition and exposure in refugee crises. Accounting, Organizations and Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2020.101197

Academic (1)
  • Frey - Heger, C., & Lutz, R. (2012). Flucht und Flüchtlingslager. Paulo Freire Verlag.

Academic (2)
  • Frey-Heger, C. (2022). Grand Challenges and Business Education: Dealing with Barriers to Learning and Uncomfortable Knowledge. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations (pp. 221-237). Emerald Group Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079021

  • Frey - Heger, C. (2012). Flüchtlingslager. Einordnung in die internationale Politik. In C. Frey, & R. Lutz (Eds.), Flucht und Flüchtlingslager Paulo Freire Verlag.

External (1)
  • Frey - Heger, C. (2019). Organizing in times of global displacement and refugee crises. [Doctoral Thesis, University of Cambridge]. University of Cambridge.

Popular (6)
  • Frey - Heger, C., & Gatzweiler, MK. (2018). How tech can bring dignity to refugees in humanitarian crises. Web publication/site, The Conversation.

  • Frey - Heger, C. (2017). Aid workers get a bad rap – but too often they’re thrown in at the deep end. Web publication/site, The Conversation.

  • Corbett, J., Frey - Heger, C., & Marjanovic, S. (2017). How Innovation Can Assist the Refugee 'Pathway'. Web publication/site, RAND Corporation.

  • Frey - Heger, C. (2016). Angelina Jolie in a refugee camp. Or, what is humanitarian innovation?. Web publication/site, Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation.

  • Frey - Heger, C. (2016). The Global Refugee Crises: How To Crowdfund New Ideas For Better Aid. Web publication/site, Economic and Social Research Council.

  • Frey - Heger, C. (2015). Overcoming the research-practice gap. Web publication/site, Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation.

Courses

Social Innovation

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022
  • Code: B3EL115
  • Level: Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3

Past courses

Innovation Management

  • Study year: 2020/2021
  • Code: BT2106
  • Level: Bachelor 2, Bachelor 3, Pre-master

Organisational Theory & Dynamics

  • Study year: 2020/2021
  • Code: BT2111
  • Level: Bachelor 2, Bachelor 3, Pre-master

Grand Challenges and innovative forms of organizing

  • Study year: 2019/2020
  • Code: BMME145
  • ECTS: 6 Level: Master, Master, Master, Master

Sustainability Grand Challenges

  • Study year: 2019/2020, 2018/2019
  • Code: BM05GBS
  • ECTS: 4 Level: Master, Master, Master, Master

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