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Business and Management
Sweden
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
46
Citations
11023
World Ranking
1212
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Karl Wennberg is affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Their research spans multiple domains within social sciences, with a particular focus on business, management, and accounting. Their scholarly output reflects interdisciplinary engagement in fields such as management of technology and innovation, economics and econometrics, accounting, organizational behavior and human resource management, as well as strategy and management.

Their work addresses several key topics, including entrepreneurship studies and influences, private equity and venture capital, family business performance and succession, gender diversity and inequality, policy transfer and learning, international development and aid, and innovation policy and R&D.

Wennberg's recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries" (2020), published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Policy for innovative entrepreneurship: Institutions, interventions, and societal challenges" (2021), published in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • "The Entrepreneurial Story and its Implications for Research" (2021), published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • "Cultural diversity in top management teams: Review and agenda for future research" (2022), published in Journal of World Business
  • "Bureaucrats or Markets in Innovation Policy? - a critique of the entrepreneurial state" (2020), published in The Review of Austrian Economics

Frequently publishing in notable academic venues, Wennberg has contributed multiple articles to Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and the SSRN Electronic Journal, as well as Small Business Economics, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Academy of Management Perspectives.

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Timurs Umans, Christian Sandström, Stefan Jonsson, Anna Brattström, and Karin Hellerstedt.

Their body of research intersects with various subfields and methodologies, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches to issues related to entrepreneurship, innovation policy, organizational diversity, and economic development. This diverse range of interests highlights a multifaceted approach to social science inquiry focused on business dynamics and institutional contexts.

Best Publications

  • Reconceptualizing entrepreneurial exit : divergent exit routes and their drivers

    Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg;Johan Wiklund;Dawn R. DeTienne;Melissa S. Cardon

  • Creativity in entrepreneurship education

    Daniel Yar Hamidi;Karl Wennberg;Henrik Berglund

  • The roles of R&D in new firm growth

    Erik Stam;Erik Stam;Erik Stam;Karl Wennberg

  • Hybrid Entrepreneurship

    Timothy B. Folta;Frédéric Delmar;Karl Wennberg

  • Consequences of cultural practices for entrepreneurial behaviors

    Erkko Autio;Saurav Pathak;Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg

  • The effectiveness of university knowledge spillovers: performance differences between university spinoffs and corporate spinoffs

    Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg;Johan Wiklund;Johan Wiklund;Mike Wright;Mike Wright

  • The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms

    Karl Wennberg;Göran Lindqvist

  • What do we really mean when we talk about ‘exit’? A critical review of research on entrepreneurial exit

    Karl Wennberg;Dawn R. DeTienne

  • The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in High School on Long-Term Entrepreneurial Performance

    Niklas Elert;Fredrik W. Andersson;Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg

  • How culture moulds the effects of self-efficacy and fear of failure on entrepreneurship

    Karl Wennberg;Saurav Pathak;Erkko Autio

  • How Culture Molds the Effects of Self Efficacy and Fear of Failure on Entrepreneurship

    Karl Wennberg;Saurav Pathak;Erkko Autio

  • What Are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship:

    Dean A. Shepherd;Karl Wennberg;Roy Suddaby;Roy Suddaby;Johan Wiklund

  • An entrepreneurial process perspective on succession in family firms

    Mattias Nordqvist;Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg;Massimo Bau;Karin Hellerstedt

  • Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance

    Rasmus Toft-Kehler;Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg;Phillip H. Kim

  • Untangling the relationships among growth, profitability and survival in new firms

    Frédéric Delmar;Frédéric Delmar;Alexander McKelvie;Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg

  • The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization

    Robert Demir;Karl Wennberg;Alexander McKelvie

  • Implications of Intra-Family and External Ownership Transfer of Family Firm : short-term and long-term performance differences

    Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg;Johan Wiklund;Johan Wiklund;Karin Hellerstedt;Mattias Nordqvist

  • Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries.

    Abiel Sebhatu;Karl Wennberg;Stefan Arora-Jonsson;Staffan I Lindberg

  • Regional influences on the prevalence of family versus non-family start-ups

    Miriam Bird;Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg

  • Policy for innovative entrepreneurship: Institutions, interventions, and societal challenges

    Steven W. Bradley;Phillip H. Kim;Peter G. Klein;Peter G. Klein;Jeffery S. McMullen

  • The Effects of Clusters on the Survival and Performance of New Firms

    Karl Wennberg;Göran Lindqvist

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Wiklund
Johan Wiklund Syracuse University
Alexander McKelvie
Alexander McKelvie Syracuse University
Mattias Nordqvist
Mattias Nordqvist Stockholm School of Economics
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Erkko Autio
Erkko Autio Imperial College London
Timothy B. Folta
Timothy B. Folta University of Connecticut
Erik Stam
Erik Stam Utrecht University
Bruce Tether
Bruce Tether University of Manchester
Francesco Chirico
Francesco Chirico Macquarie University
Roy Suddaby
Roy Suddaby University of Victoria

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