Dr Corinna Frey-Heger

Assistant Professor

Department of Business-Society Management

Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Profile

Corinna Frey is an Assistant Professor in the Business-Society Management department.

Corinna Frey is a qualitative scholar and mainly uses Organization Theory (institutional theory, practice theory, pragmatism) to better understand organization's responses to grand challenges and wicked problems, such as global displacement. 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.

Professional experience

Assistant Professor

Erasmus University Rotterdam
RSM - Rotterdam School of Management
Department of Business-Society Management

Publications

Scholarly Publications (4)

C. Frey - Heger & M.K. Gatzweiler (2018). No End in Sight.The wickedness of global displacement or how refugee crises are enacted over time. In Academy of Management Proceedings doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.16829abstract
C. Frey - Heger & M. Barrett (2017). A Pragmatic View on Multi-Sectoral Knowledge. Enacting Information Systems in Emergency Response. In Academy of Management Proceedings
C. Frey - Heger & R. Lutz (Ed.). (2012). Flucht und Flüchtlingslager. Oldenburg: Paulo Freire Verlag
C. Frey - Heger (2012). Flüchtlingslager. Einordnung in die internationale Politik. In R. Lutz (Ed.), Flucht und Flüchtlingslager. Oldenburg: Paulo Freire Verlag

Semi Scientific Publications (6)

C. Frey - Heger & M.K. Gatzweiler (2018). How tech can bring dignity to refugees in humanitarian crises. (blog). The Conversation.
C. Frey - Heger (2017). Aid workers get a bad rap – but too often they’re thrown in at the deep end. (blog). The Conversation.
J. Corbett, C. Frey - Heger & S. Marjanovic (2017). How Innovation Can Assist the Refugee 'Pathway'. (blog). RAND Corporation.
C. Frey - Heger (2016). Angelina Jolie in a refugee camp. Or, what is humanitarian innovation? (blog). Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation.
C. Frey - Heger (2016). The Global Refugee Crises: How To Crowdfund New Ideas For Better Aid. (blog). Economic and Social Research Council.
C. Frey - Heger (2015). Overcoming the research-practice gap. (blog). Cambridge Center for Social Innovation.

Doctoral Thesis

C. Frey - Heger. Organizing in times of global displacement and refugee crises. University of Cambridge Prom./coprom.: M. Barrett. [go to publisher's site]

Past courses

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

frey@rsm.nl

Visiting address

Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

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