Karl Wennberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 280016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karl Wennberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karl |
| FAMILY NAME | Wennberg |
| SIGNATURE | WENNBERG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7279-1006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The emergence and impact of the entrepreneurship industry
This special issue introduces the concept of the “entrepreneurship industry” (EI), a rapidly expanding global sector comprising actors, services, and infrastructures that promote and commodify entrepreneurial activity. Moving beyond traditional demand-side views of entrepreneurship, the issue explores how EI shapes entrepreneurial behavior through cultural norms, institutional structures, and policy interventions. The six featured articles examin…
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement
We study the effects of principal instructional leadership on pupil educational achievement using longitudinal data of 120,394 teacher responses across 1919 schools in Sweden over 9 years. Through multilevel structural equation modelling, we test how teacher ratings of principal leadership influence indicators of educational achievement and the extent to which this effect is channelled through a collaborative teacher culture in schools. Findings …
Navigating global health diplomacy: Challenges and opportunities in building a community of practice
Addressing global health challenges requires complex coordination and collaboration between actors, often through the process of Global Health Diplomacy (GHD). Although considerable scholarship argues the importance of improving this process to build better health policies and systems, few studies have investigated the ‘health diplomats’ directly leading this work. In this study, we seek to better understand GHD from a practitioners’ view by expl…
Seeking opportunity or socio-economic status? Housing and school choice in Sweden
Residential choices and school choices are intimately connected in school systems where school admission relies on proximity rules. In countries with universal school choice systems, however, it remains an open question whether families’ residential mobility is tied to the choice of their children’s school, and with what consequences. Using administrative data on all children approaching primary-school age in Sweden, we study to what extent famil…
How the organisation of mission arenas regulates attention away from regional problems and solutions: An Attention-Based View
Mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs) are promoting the formation of ‘mission arenas’ (MAs) where actors collectively try to address societal ‘wicked problems’. Yet, little is known about how attention — and subsequently time and effort — towards specific problems and solutions, and their geographical dimensions, unfolds within MAs. We conducted a multiple-case study of four MAs mandated and granted public funding to address self-articulat…
Does local government corruption inhibit entrepreneurship
The dominant ‘sand in the wheels’ view holds that entrepreneurship is strongly inhibited by corruption. Challenging this, the ‘grease the wheels’ view maintains that corruption might increase entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. We extend the basic predictions of these theories by examining entrepreneurs’ start-up decisions, as well as their location choices, in a seemingly low-corruption environment: Swedish municipalities. Combining …
Corporate Demography and Wage Inequality: Revisited
To further research how organizations influence workforce wage inequality, the authors replicate and extend Sorensen and Sorenson’s study on organizational demography and wage inequality in region-industries by (1) replicating original results from Danish regions from 1992 to 1998 using a close-to-identical dataset in Sweden during the same time period, (2) using multiverse analysis to gauge the effect of analytical choices on research results, a…
Navigating causal reasoning in sustainability science
When reasoning about causes of sustainability problems and possible solutions, sustainability scientists rely on disciplinary-based understanding of cause–effect relations. These disciplinary assumptions enable and constrain how causal knowledge is generated, yet they are rarely made explicit. In a multidisciplinary field like sustainability science, lack of understanding differences in causal reasoning impedes our ability to address complex sust…
Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World: Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges
This open access book Migration and Integration Challenges in a Post-Pandemic World examines the future of migration in relation to the labour market.
Face mask use during the Covid-19 pandemic: How risk perception, experience with Covid-19, and attitude towards government interact with country-wide policy stringency
We highlight that those countries that aim for widespread use of face masks should set strict measures, stress self-related risks of COVID-19, and use clear communication
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems
In social-ecological systems (SES), where social and ecological processes are intertwined, phenomena are usually complex and involve multiple interdependent causes. Figuring out causal relationships is thus challenging but needed to better understand and then affect or manage such systems. One important and widely used tool to identify and communicate causal relationships is visualization. Here, we present several common visualization types: diag…
Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of Covid-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries
Significance We investigate what drives OECD countries to adopt COVID-19 restrictive policies such as lockdowns and school closures, and find that government policies are strongly driven by the policies initiated in other countries. The level of democracy also matters: While strong democracies are slower to initiate restrictive policies, they are more likely to follow the policies of nearby countries. Following the lead of others rather than maki…
Incubator specialization and size: Divergent paths towards operational scale
Productive entrepreneurship and the effectiveness of insolvency legislation: A cross-country study
This paper studies the association between the effectiveness of insolvency regulations and entrepreneurship using multilevel modeling of about 300,000 individuals in 27 countries over the 2005-2010 period. We investigate the relationship between three different measures of Bresolving insolvency^(time, cost, and recovery rate) from the World Bank and four different measures of entrepreneurship from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, controlling …
Boyan Jovanovic: Recipient of the 2019 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
The 2019 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has been awarded to Professor Boyan Jovanovic at New York University in the USA. Boyan Jovanovic has developed pioneering research that advances our understanding of the competitive dynamics between incumbent firms and new entrants, entrepreneurial learning and selection processes, and the importance of entrepreneurship for the economy. Key perspectives in his research are that the entrepreneur …
The socially and spatially bounded relationships of entrepreneurial activity: Olav Sorenson—recipient of the 2018 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
This article reviews the academic contributions of Olav Sorenson, recipient of the 2018 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. His work has advanced scholarly understanding of how entrepreneurship and innovation are strongly embedded in socially and spatially bounded relationships. Based on meticulous empirical studies using a broad range of methods, he has challenged conventional models of new firms’ location choices, explained patterns of …
Habitual entrepreneurs in the making: How labour market rigidity and employment affects entrepreneurial re-entry
We investigate the impact of country-level labour market regulations on the re-entry decision of experienced entrepreneurs, whereby they become habitual entrepreneurs. Multilevel logit models on entry decisions among 15,709 individuals in 29 European countries show that labour market regulations have a positive influence on the decision to re-enter into entrepreneurship. This positive impact is stronger among individuals holding wage jobs at the …
Parents’ performance in entrepreneurship as a “double-edged sword” for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship
We investigate how perceived parents’ performance in entrepreneurship (PPE) affects the entrepreneurial career intentions of offspring. We argue that while perceived PPE enhances offspring’s perceived entrepreneurial desirability and feasibility because of exposure mechanisms, it inhibits the translation of both desirability and feasibility perceptions into entrepreneurial career intentions due to upward social comparison mechanisms. Thus, percei…
How young firms achieve growth: Reconciling the roles of growth motivation and innovative activities
Hybrid Entrepreneurship
In contrast to previous efforts to model an individual's movement from wage work into entrepreneurship, we consider that individuals might transition incrementally by retaining their wage job while entering into self-employment. We show that these hybrid entrepreneurs represent a significant share of all entrepreneurial activity. Theoretical arguments are proposed to suggest why hybrid entrants are distinct from self-employment entrants, and why …
The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms
How the organisation of mission arenas regulates attention away from regional problems and solutions: An Attention-Based View
Mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs) are promoting the formation of ‘mission arenas’ (MAs) where actors collectively try to address societal ‘wicked problems’. Yet, little is known about how attention — and subsequently time and effort — towards specific problems and solutions, and their geographical dimensions, unfolds within MAs. We conducted a multiple-case study of four MAs mandated and granted public funding to address self-articulat…
Seeking opportunity or socio-economic status? Housing and school choice in Sweden
Residential choices and school choices are intimately connected in school systems where school admission relies on proximity rules. In countries with universal school choice systems, however, it remains an open question whether families’ residential mobility is tied to the choice of their children’s school, and with what consequences. Using administrative data on all children approaching primary-school age in Sweden, we study to what extent famil…
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems
In social-ecological systems (SES), where social and ecological processes are intertwined, phenomena are usually complex and involve multiple interdependent causes. Figuring out causal relationships is thus challenging but needed to better understand and then affect or manage such systems. One important and widely used tool to identify and communicate causal relationships is visualization. Here, we present several common visualization types: diag…
Hybrid Entrepreneurship
In contrast to previous efforts to model an individual's movement from wage work into entrepreneurship, we consider that individuals might transition incrementally by retaining their wage job while entering into self-employment. We show that these hybrid entrepreneurs represent a significant share of all entrepreneurial activity. Theoretical arguments are proposed to suggest why hybrid entrants are distinct from self-employment entrants, and why …
The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms
Parents’ performance in entrepreneurship as a “double-edged sword” for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship
We investigate how perceived parents’ performance in entrepreneurship (PPE) affects the entrepreneurial career intentions of offspring. We argue that while perceived PPE enhances offspring’s perceived entrepreneurial desirability and feasibility because of exposure mechanisms, it inhibits the translation of both desirability and feasibility perceptions into entrepreneurial career intentions due to upward social comparison mechanisms. Thus, percei…
How young firms achieve growth: Reconciling the roles of growth motivation and innovative activities
The socially and spatially bounded relationships of entrepreneurial activity: Olav Sorenson—recipient of the 2018 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
This article reviews the academic contributions of Olav Sorenson, recipient of the 2018 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. His work has advanced scholarly understanding of how entrepreneurship and innovation are strongly embedded in socially and spatially bounded relationships. Based on meticulous empirical studies using a broad range of methods, he has challenged conventional models of new firms’ location choices, explained patterns of …
Habitual entrepreneurs in the making: How labour market rigidity and employment affects entrepreneurial re-entry
We investigate the impact of country-level labour market regulations on the re-entry decision of experienced entrepreneurs, whereby they become habitual entrepreneurs. Multilevel logit models on entry decisions among 15,709 individuals in 29 European countries show that labour market regulations have a positive influence on the decision to re-enter into entrepreneurship. This positive impact is stronger among individuals holding wage jobs at the …
Boyan Jovanovic: Recipient of the 2019 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
The 2019 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has been awarded to Professor Boyan Jovanovic at New York University in the USA. Boyan Jovanovic has developed pioneering research that advances our understanding of the competitive dynamics between incumbent firms and new entrants, entrepreneurial learning and selection processes, and the importance of entrepreneurship for the economy. Key perspectives in his research are that the entrepreneur …
Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of Covid-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries
Significance We investigate what drives OECD countries to adopt COVID-19 restrictive policies such as lockdowns and school closures, and find that government policies are strongly driven by the policies initiated in other countries. The level of democracy also matters: While strong democracies are slower to initiate restrictive policies, they are more likely to follow the policies of nearby countries. Following the lead of others rather than maki…
Incubator specialization and size: Divergent paths towards operational scale
Productive entrepreneurship and the effectiveness of insolvency legislation: A cross-country study
This paper studies the association between the effectiveness of insolvency regulations and entrepreneurship using multilevel modeling of about 300,000 individuals in 27 countries over the 2005-2010 period. We investigate the relationship between three different measures of Bresolving insolvency^(time, cost, and recovery rate) from the World Bank and four different measures of entrepreneurship from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, controlling …
Face mask use during the Covid-19 pandemic: How risk perception, experience with Covid-19, and attitude towards government interact with country-wide policy stringency
We highlight that those countries that aim for widespread use of face masks should set strict measures, stress self-related risks of COVID-19, and use clear communication
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems
In social-ecological systems (SES), where social and ecological processes are intertwined, phenomena are usually complex and involve multiple interdependent causes. Figuring out causal relationships is thus challenging but needed to better understand and then affect or manage such systems. One important and widely used tool to identify and communicate causal relationships is visualization. Here, we present several common visualization types: diag…
Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World: Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges
This open access book Migration and Integration Challenges in a Post-Pandemic World examines the future of migration in relation to the labour market.
Does local government corruption inhibit entrepreneurship
The dominant ‘sand in the wheels’ view holds that entrepreneurship is strongly inhibited by corruption. Challenging this, the ‘grease the wheels’ view maintains that corruption might increase entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. We extend the basic predictions of these theories by examining entrepreneurs’ start-up decisions, as well as their location choices, in a seemingly low-corruption environment: Swedish municipalities. Combining …
Corporate Demography and Wage Inequality: Revisited
To further research how organizations influence workforce wage inequality, the authors replicate and extend Sorensen and Sorenson’s study on organizational demography and wage inequality in region-industries by (1) replicating original results from Danish regions from 1992 to 1998 using a close-to-identical dataset in Sweden during the same time period, (2) using multiverse analysis to gauge the effect of analytical choices on research results, a…
Navigating causal reasoning in sustainability science
When reasoning about causes of sustainability problems and possible solutions, sustainability scientists rely on disciplinary-based understanding of cause–effect relations. These disciplinary assumptions enable and constrain how causal knowledge is generated, yet they are rarely made explicit. In a multidisciplinary field like sustainability science, lack of understanding differences in causal reasoning impedes our ability to address complex sust…
Principal instructional leadership and teacher collaboration: A longitudinal study of the influence on pupil achievement
We study the effects of principal instructional leadership on pupil educational achievement using longitudinal data of 120,394 teacher responses across 1919 schools in Sweden over 9 years. Through multilevel structural equation modelling, we test how teacher ratings of principal leadership influence indicators of educational achievement and the extent to which this effect is channelled through a collaborative teacher culture in schools. Findings …
Navigating global health diplomacy: Challenges and opportunities in building a community of practice
Addressing global health challenges requires complex coordination and collaboration between actors, often through the process of Global Health Diplomacy (GHD). Although considerable scholarship argues the importance of improving this process to build better health policies and systems, few studies have investigated the ‘health diplomats’ directly leading this work. In this study, we seek to better understand GHD from a practitioners’ view by expl…
Seeking opportunity or socio-economic status? Housing and school choice in Sweden
Residential choices and school choices are intimately connected in school systems where school admission relies on proximity rules. In countries with universal school choice systems, however, it remains an open question whether families’ residential mobility is tied to the choice of their children’s school, and with what consequences. Using administrative data on all children approaching primary-school age in Sweden, we study to what extent famil…
How the organisation of mission arenas regulates attention away from regional problems and solutions: An Attention-Based View
Mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs) are promoting the formation of ‘mission arenas’ (MAs) where actors collectively try to address societal ‘wicked problems’. Yet, little is known about how attention — and subsequently time and effort — towards specific problems and solutions, and their geographical dimensions, unfolds within MAs. We conducted a multiple-case study of four MAs mandated and granted public funding to address self-articulat…
The emergence and impact of the entrepreneurship industry
This special issue introduces the concept of the “entrepreneurship industry” (EI), a rapidly expanding global sector comprising actors, services, and infrastructures that promote and commodify entrepreneurial activity. Moving beyond traditional demand-side views of entrepreneurship, the issue explores how EI shapes entrepreneurial behavior through cultural norms, institutional structures, and policy interventions. The six featured articles examin…
Economics (13 works) · Entrepreneurship (10 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Private Equity and Venture Capital (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (5 works) · Political science (5 works)