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30
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7813
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2914
National Ranking
1133

Overview

Mark Kroll is affiliated with The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a concentration on Strategy and Management, Accounting, Marketing, Management Information Systems, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The topics covered in their work include Corporate Finance and Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Business Strategy and Innovation, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society, and AI and HR Technologies.

Kroll has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • The dark side of competition in developing economies: Evidence from closely held SMEs, 2024, Financial Review
  • It's time to speak up! investor reaction to CEO sociopolitical activism, 2024, Journal of Business Research
  • The impact of Republican CEO ideology and political alignment on R&D spending and business performance, 2023, R and D Management
  • The Executive Bully Pulpit: Drivers of CEO Sociopolitical Activism in the Wake of Social Movements, 2024, Corporate Governance An International Review
  • The Dark Side of Competition in Developing Economies: Evidence from Closely Held SMEs, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent coauthors are Chiquan Guo, Michael Abebe, Keshab Acharya, Ahmed Elnahas, and Siamak Javadi.

In terms of publication venues, Kroll's work has appeared largely in the SSRN Electronic Journal, as well as in the Academy of Management Proceedings, Financial Review, Journal of Business Research, and R and D Management.

Best Publications

  • Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases

    Peter L. Wright;Mark J. Kroll;John A. Parnell

  • Competitiveness through Management of Diversity: Effects on Stock Price Valuation

    Peter Wright;Stephen P. Ferris;Janine S. Hiller;Mark Kroll

  • Generic Strategies and Business Performance: an Empirical Study of the Screw Machine Products Industry

    Peter Wright;Mark Kroll;Howard Tu;Marilyn Helms

  • Board vigilance, director experience, and corporate outcomes

    Mark Kroll;Bruce A. Walters;Peter Wright

  • Paradox And Theorizing Within The Resource-Based View

    Augustine A. Lado;Nancy G. Boyd;Peter Wright;Mark Kroll

  • The Impact of Board Composition and Top Management Team Ownership Structure on Post-IPO Performance in Young Entrepreneurial Firms

    Mark Kroll;Bruce A. Walters;Son A. Le

  • Strategic Management: Text and Cases

    Peter L. Wright;Charles D. Pringle;Mark J. Kroll

  • The structure of ownership and corporate acquisition strategies

    Peter Wright;Mark Kroll;Augustine Lado;Bonnie Van Ness

  • Control Variable Use and Reporting in Macro and Micro Management Research

    Guclu Atinc;Marcia J. Simmering;Mark J. Kroll

  • Influences of top management team incentives on firm risk taking

    Peter Wright;Mark Kroll;Jeffrey A. Krug;Michael Pettus

  • A reexamination of agency theory assumptions: extensions and extrapolations

    Peter Wright;Ananda Mukherji;Mark J. Kroll

  • Acquisition Returns, Increase in Firm Size, and Chief Executive Officer Compensation: The Moderating Role of Monitoring

    Peter Wright;Mark Kroll;Detelin Elenkov

  • FORM OF CONTROL: A CRITICAL DETERMINANT OF ACQUISITION PERFORMANCE AND CEO REWARDS

    Mark Kroll;Peter Wright;Leslie Toombs;Hadley Leavell

  • CEO international experience: Effects on strategic change and firm performance

    Son Le;Mark Kroll

  • The moderating effects of external monitors on the relationship between R&D spending and firm performance

    Son Anh Le;Bruce Walters;Mark Kroll

  • CEO tenure, boards of directors, and acquisition performance

    Bruce A. Walters;Mark J. Kroll;Peter Wright

  • Strategic orientations, competitive advantage, and business performance

    Peter Wright;Mark Kroll;Bevalee Pray;Augustine Lado

  • The contribution of product quality to competitive advantage: impacts on systematic variance and unexplained variance in returns

    Mark Kroll;Peter Wright;Richard A. Heiens

  • The Impact of TMT Board Member Control and Environment on Post-IPO Performance

    Bruce A. Walters;Mark Kroll;Peter Wright

  • Top Management Turnover Following Mergers and Acquisitions: Solid Research to Date but Still Much to Be Learned

    Jeffrey A. Krug;Peter Wright;Mark J. Kroll

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Wright
Peter Wright University of Memphis
Daniel M. Cable
Daniel M. Cable London Business School
Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Tim Wildschut
Tim Wildschut University of Southampton
Stephen P. Ferris
Stephen P. Ferris Ball State University
Marilyn M. Helms
Marilyn M. Helms Dalton State College
John A. Parnell
John A. Parnell University of North Alabama

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