Heidi Coral Thornton
Intermittent anställdHeidi is a PhD candidate in Business Administration, with a specialization in international business/entrepreneurship. Her current research focuses on the sharing economy and the internationalization of companies, ‘sharecoms’, operating within it.
She is engaged in both bachelor and master level programmes, teaching on various international business and entrepreneurship-related courses.
She holds an MSc International Business Strategy, an MA English Language Teaching/Applied Linguistics, and a BA (Hons) Business and Marketing. She has a CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) accredited by Cambridge University, and a TEFL-Q (diploma in teaching English as a foreign language) awarded in association with The British Council. She is also a certified corporate trainer.
Before moving to Sweden, she worked in academia and industry in the UK. She has taught in several high-ranking universities, and worked with Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies, as well as small and medium size enterprises and start-ups, in training and consulting roles.
Vi är kvalitetscertifierade
Ekonomihögskolan och Linnéuniversitetet är ackrediterade av The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, AACSB.
Publikationer
Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
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Thornton, H.C., Zhao, Y. (2025). Sharing economy companies' internationalization : A business ecosystem strategy. International Business Review. 34 (2).
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Thornton, H.C. (2024). Business model change and internationalization in the sharing economy. Journal of Business Research. 170.
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Ochieng, I.A., Thornton, H.C., Owusu, R.A. (2024). Internationalisation patterns of African sharing economy companies : The role of gateway markets. Journal of Business Research. 170. 114297-114297.
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Thornton, H.C., Parente, R. (2024). Internationalization pathways of sharing economy companies. Journal of International Entrepreneurship.
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Thornton, H.C., Sandberg, S. (2022). Entrepreneurial orientation in the sharing economy : cases of new entries in domestic and international markets. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. 46 (1). 16-44.
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Thornton, H.C., Campbell, A.J., Owusu, R.A. (2019). External barriers facing internationalising sharing economy companies : a study of European and American sharecoms. Journal for Global Business Advancement. 12 (1). 70-94.
Status: Publicerad
Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
- Thornton, H.C. (2024). Sharecom internationalisation : Exploring business models, business ecosystems, and pathways to international expansion. Doctoral Thesis. Linnaeus University Press. 91.