Profile
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
Article (3)
Academic (3)
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Danner-Schroeder, A., Frey-Heger, C., & Sele, K. (2024). Media Review: The Fix Podcast–Immersing Ourselves in the Practice of Gender (In)Equality. Organization Studies, 0(0). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406241310000
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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
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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
Book editing (1)
Academic (1)
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Frey - Heger, C., & Lutz, R. (2012). Flucht und Flüchtlingslager. Paulo Freire Verlag.
Chapter (2)
Academic (2)
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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
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Frey - Heger, C. (2012). Flüchtlingslager. Einordnung in die internationale Politik. In C. Frey, & R. Lutz (Eds.), Flucht und Flüchtlingslager Paulo Freire Verlag.
Doctoral Thesis (1)
External (1)
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Frey - Heger, C. (2019). Organizing in times of global displacement and refugee crises. [Doctoral Thesis, University of Cambridge]. University of Cambridge.
Editorial (1)
Academic (1)
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Kornberger, M., Meyer, R., Marti, I., Frey-Heger, C., Cornelissen, J., & Gatzweiler, M. (2025). Collective Action in Crisis? Introduction to the Special Issue. Organization Studies, Article 01708406251336033. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406251336033
Web publication/site (6)
Popular (6)
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Frey - Heger, C., & Gatzweiler, MK. (2018). How tech can bring dignity to refugees in humanitarian crises. Web publication/site, The Conversation.
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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.
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Corbett, J., Frey - Heger, C., & Marjanovic, S. (2017). How Innovation Can Assist the Refugee 'Pathway'. Web publication/site, RAND Corporation.
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Frey - Heger, C. (2016). Angelina Jolie in a refugee camp. Or, what is humanitarian innovation?. Web publication/site, Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation.
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Frey - Heger, C. (2016). The Global Refugee Crises: How To Crowdfund New Ideas For Better Aid. Web publication/site, Economic and Social Research Council.
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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
Featured in the media
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Researching refugee crises and global displacement
Are today’s ‘grand challenges’ under-researched? That’s what assistant professor Corinna Frey-Heger suspected when she joined RSM’s department of Business-Society Management in 2018. She wanted to research a subject that moved…
Tuesday, 16 March 2021 -
Grand challenges and wicked problems
Changing the world is a question of doing, not talking – which means being well-organised is business-critical, says Corinna Frey-Heger. From refugee crises to climate change to the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is full of…
Sunday, 18 October 2020 -
Cambridge Judge dissertation paper by Corinna Frey-Heger on displacement organisation wins the best dissertation award of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies.
A PhD dissertation on refugee camp organisation, written by Dr Corinna Frey-Heger at Cambridge Judge Business School, won the best dissertation award of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS). …
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
