Peter Karnøe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1320756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Karnøe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Karnøe |
| SIGNATURE | KARNØE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0480-5426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Carbon tax, not subsidies
Economic expertise influences climate policy through various institutional channels, including academic research, think tanks, government offices, and councils. National economic councils are particularly relevant because close to political realities and accepting politically defined climate and environmental goals. Based on a systematic analysis of their publications, we find that the Danish Economic Councils (DEC) have consistently opposed all …
Making Good Economies with Bad Economic Instruments
This article examines how notions of the good are entangled with instruments of valuation in the case of wind power in Denmark. Analytically, we develop what we tentatively call a comparative actantial approach to the study of policy instruments. Empirically, we inspect three support schemes introduced between 1979 and 1999 by the Danish state to foster the development of wind power. The comparative inspection shows wind power's notable shifts in…
Market Studies
Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization a…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Introducing the lens of markets-in-the-making to transition studies
This paper contributes to a renewed understanding of markets in transition studies by focusing on how unknown things must be ‘framed’ and pacified in order to be attributed some ‘value’ that makes them ‘matter’. We empirically analyze the making of a market agencement for wind power deployment in Denmark. Using an analytical framework of framing and pacifying, we trace three entangled ‘domains of action’ associated with the employment of (a) soci…
Winds of Change
Among scholars, policy makers, and practitioners, there is considerable interest in the dynamics associated with regions, including their emergence, decline, and regeneration. Such interest is well justified given the role that regions play in contributing to social well-being at a variety of scales—from individuals to communities and even nation-states. In this article, we examine the processes that unfolded during the regeneration of a region i…
Energy plans in practice
Much of the academic literature that investigates energy planning focuses on the development of plans but overlooks how they shape actors’ situated sensemaking in the field. This paper followed the process of realizing a sector-coupling investment in a thermal energy storage in Copenhagen from 2017 to 2020. The analysis shows that while plans may help to define technological qualities and purposes, they do not always convince actors. Plans simult…
Governing system transitions in the context of scattered agency
Moments of Valuation
The outcome of innovation processes are determined by complex, historically grown valuation practices. In this book, a wide range of innovations are taken into consideration, from small inventions like entertainment novelties to large societal changes through new technologies. The chapters observe the particular local or distributed sites in which their episodes of innovation take place, and they identify the initial dissonance among those judgin…
Path Creation
This paper employs path creation as a lens to follow the emergence of the Danish wind turbine cluster. Supplier competencies, regulations, user preferences and a market for wind power did not pre-exist; all had to emerge in a tranformative manner involving multiple actors and artefacts. Competencies emerged through processes and mechanisms such as co-creation that implicated multiple learning processes. The process was not an orderly linear one a…
Débordements
MICHEL CALLON a marqué les sciences humaines et sociales par sa production académique, par ses activités d’animateur de la communauté scientifique et par son rôle de médiateur entre la recherche et le monde de la politique, de l’administration et de l’entreprise. Il a multiplié les espaces d’entente et de confrontation, en se déplaçant aussi bien sur le terrain de la sociologie que sur celui des politiques de recherche et d’innovation, de l’anthr…
Wind Energy in America
Reviewed by: Wind Energy in America: A History* Peter Karnøe (bio) Wind Energy in America: A History. By Robert W. Righter. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Pp. xxi+361; illustrations, notes, index. $34.95. This book offers a rich empirical narrative history of wind energy in America. It focuses on the electricity-producing windmill from around 1850 to the 1990s. It is written out of Robert W. Righter’s strong environmental concern wit…
Actors and Institutions
Over the past two decades, neoinstitutional theory has challenged the dominant functionalist explanations of organizations and has become one of the most creative and promising new paradigms in the social sciences
Only in Social Action
This article compares the neoinstitutional perspective to the business systems perspective and addresses the way in which they can be used for accounting for social action. Despite their important insights against methodological individualism and functionalism, they still have some weaknesses. This article integrates four conceptual elements-sense making and enactment, social context, ongoing social relations, and a temporality view on time-to de…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Introducing the lens of markets-in-the-making to transition studies
This paper contributes to a renewed understanding of markets in transition studies by focusing on how unknown things must be ‘framed’ and pacified in order to be attributed some ‘value’ that makes them ‘matter’. We empirically analyze the making of a market agencement for wind power deployment in Denmark. Using an analytical framework of framing and pacifying, we trace three entangled ‘domains of action’ associated with the employment of (a) soci…
Energy plans in practice
Much of the academic literature that investigates energy planning focuses on the development of plans but overlooks how they shape actors’ situated sensemaking in the field. This paper followed the process of realizing a sector-coupling investment in a thermal energy storage in Copenhagen from 2017 to 2020. The analysis shows that while plans may help to define technological qualities and purposes, they do not always convince actors. Plans simult…
Governing system transitions in the context of scattered agency
Actors and Institutions
Over the past two decades, neoinstitutional theory has challenged the dominant functionalist explanations of organizations and has become one of the most creative and promising new paradigms in the social sciences
Only in Social Action
This article compares the neoinstitutional perspective to the business systems perspective and addresses the way in which they can be used for accounting for social action. Despite their important insights against methodological individualism and functionalism, they still have some weaknesses. This article integrates four conceptual elements-sense making and enactment, social context, ongoing social relations, and a temporality view on time-to de…
Wind Energy in America
Reviewed by: Wind Energy in America: A History* Peter Karnøe (bio) Wind Energy in America: A History. By Robert W. Righter. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Pp. xxi+361; illustrations, notes, index. $34.95. This book offers a rich empirical narrative history of wind energy in America. It focuses on the electricity-producing windmill from around 1850 to the 1990s. It is written out of Robert W. Righter’s strong environmental concern wit…
Débordements
MICHEL CALLON a marqué les sciences humaines et sociales par sa production académique, par ses activités d’animateur de la communauté scientifique et par son rôle de médiateur entre la recherche et le monde de la politique, de l’administration et de l’entreprise. Il a multiplié les espaces d’entente et de confrontation, en se déplaçant aussi bien sur le terrain de la sociologie que sur celui des politiques de recherche et d’innovation, de l’anthr…
Path Creation
This paper employs path creation as a lens to follow the emergence of the Danish wind turbine cluster. Supplier competencies, regulations, user preferences and a market for wind power did not pre-exist; all had to emerge in a tranformative manner involving multiple actors and artefacts. Competencies emerged through processes and mechanisms such as co-creation that implicated multiple learning processes. The process was not an orderly linear one a…
Moments of Valuation
The outcome of innovation processes are determined by complex, historically grown valuation practices. In this book, a wide range of innovations are taken into consideration, from small inventions like entertainment novelties to large societal changes through new technologies. The chapters observe the particular local or distributed sites in which their episodes of innovation take place, and they identify the initial dissonance among those judgin…
Governing system transitions in the context of scattered agency
Winds of Change
Among scholars, policy makers, and practitioners, there is considerable interest in the dynamics associated with regions, including their emergence, decline, and regeneration. Such interest is well justified given the role that regions play in contributing to social well-being at a variety of scales—from individuals to communities and even nation-states. In this article, we examine the processes that unfolded during the regeneration of a region i…
Energy plans in practice
Much of the academic literature that investigates energy planning focuses on the development of plans but overlooks how they shape actors’ situated sensemaking in the field. This paper followed the process of realizing a sector-coupling investment in a thermal energy storage in Copenhagen from 2017 to 2020. The analysis shows that while plans may help to define technological qualities and purposes, they do not always convince actors. Plans simult…
Beyond technology
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse discip…
Introducing the lens of markets-in-the-making to transition studies
This paper contributes to a renewed understanding of markets in transition studies by focusing on how unknown things must be ‘framed’ and pacified in order to be attributed some ‘value’ that makes them ‘matter’. We empirically analyze the making of a market agencement for wind power deployment in Denmark. Using an analytical framework of framing and pacifying, we trace three entangled ‘domains of action’ associated with the employment of (a) soci…
Market Studies
Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization a…
Making Good Economies with Bad Economic Instruments
This article examines how notions of the good are entangled with instruments of valuation in the case of wind power in Denmark. Analytically, we develop what we tentatively call a comparative actantial approach to the study of policy instruments. Empirically, we inspect three support schemes introduced between 1979 and 1999 by the Danish state to foster the development of wind power. The comparative inspection shows wind power's notable shifts in…
Carbon tax, not subsidies
Economic expertise influences climate policy through various institutional channels, including academic research, think tanks, government offices, and councils. National economic councils are particularly relevant because close to political realities and accepting politically defined climate and environmental goals. Based on a systematic analysis of their publications, we find that the Danish Economic Councils (DEC) have consistently opposed all …
Economics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Management (4 works)