Faglige interesser

My key research interest lies within innovation and the co-evolution of technologies, markets and institutions. More specificly the approach pursued takes an 'insider perspective on the making of S-curves', as economic actors are seen as 'sitting on the front of the S-curve' trying to navigate the next steps in a more or less uncertain context. Theoretically I se technologies, markets and institutions as outcomes of organizing processes and not pre-given.
To do this requires a micro- and localized perspective on the complex processes involved in weaving together the actors, different fields of expertise, money, interests and agendas, instruments, legislative devices and classifications that it takes to get technologies, markets and institutions organized. This is not a once and for all thing, but an ongoing process of 'repairing, improving and expanding the conditions for existence' for any technology.
My popular version formulate this as 'the 4M-approach': To make a technology successful you need to mobilize Materials, Money, Meanings and (Wo-)Men.
General theoretical approach: Constructivist theories on the complex dynamics of 'organizing' organizations, institutions, technologies and markets.

Books

Raghu Garud and Peter Karnøe (eds.)(2001), "Path Creation and Path Dependence", Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Inc. Publishers, New Jersey, USA.

Peter Karnøe, Peer Hull Kristensen, Poul Houman Andersen (Eds.)(1999), Mobilizing Resources and Generating Competencies: The Remarkable Success of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Danish Business System. Copenhagen Business School Press.

Peter Karnøe og Ulrik Jørgensen (1996), Dansk Vindmølleindustris Internationale Position og Udviklingsbetingelser, ("The International Position and Development Conditions for the Danish Wind Turbine Industry) Part 4 in project "Socio-economic value of wind power in Denmark" AKF's publisher 1996. 134 pages.

Peter Karnøe (1991), Dansk vindmølleindustri - en overraskende international succes: Om innovationer,industriudvikling og teknologipolitik, Samfundslitteratur, København. 1991. 347 sider.

Articles and chapters

Raghu Garud and Peter Karnøe (2004), Distributed Agency and Interactive Emergence, forthcoming in S. Floyd, J. Roos, and F. Kellermanns (eds.), Innovating Strategy Process. Blackwell

Raghu Garud & Peter Karnøe (2003), Bricolage versus breakthrough: Distributed and embedded agency in technology entrepreneurship. Research Policy 32, pp. 277-300

Peter Karnøe (2000), "Strategi, rationelle koncepter og adfærdsteori", in Merkantil Forskning, Foreningen af Akademi og Markedsøkonomer, November 2000.

Peter Karnøe (1999), "The Business Systems Framework and the Danish SMEs", in Peter Karnøe, Peer Hull Kristensen & Poul Houman Andersen (eds.), Mobilizing Resources and Generating Competencies. Copenhagen Business School Press.

Peter Karnøe (1999),"When low-tech becomes high-tech: Social construction of learning processes in Danish and American wind turbine firms", in Mobilizing Resources and Generating Competencies. Copenhagen Business School Press.

Peter Karnøe and Claus Nygaard (1999), "Bringing Social action and Situated rationality back in: Towards a processual understanding of the constitution of business systems", in Journal of International Studies in Management and Organization, summer 1999.

Peter Karnøe (1997), Only in Social Action!, in Journal of American Behavioral Scientist, vol 40, no. 4, February 1997.

Peter Karnøe (1996), "The Social Process of Competence Building", "Technology and Learning" in International Journal of Technology Management, Volume 11, nos 7-8.

Peter Karnøe (1990), Industrial Organization and Industrial Innovation in Danish Industry", in Journal of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, nr. 2, 1990.

Peter Karnøe and Raghu Garud (2003), Co-Creation processes in the emerging Danish Wind turbine field, Accepted for Review for Organization Studies

Raghu Garud and Peter Karnøe (2003), Logic of Mindful Deviation, accepted for Review for Scandinavian Journal of Management.