Affiliation: Norwegian Business School BI
Email: mark.kriger@bi.no

Biography

Mark Kriger is Professor of Strategic Management and Leadership at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway and was a Visiting Research Scholar at Stanford University in 2008 at the University of Southern California in 2007 and at Harvard University in 2001.  He has a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University, as well as Master's degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology respectively. He teaches courses in Strategic Management and Executive Leadership at the Doctoral, Executive MBA and Master of Science programs.

Professor Kriger is the author of numerous published articles in the areas of strategy process, executive leadership, boards of directors, organizational vision and international business management including the following journals: Academy of Management Journal, The Columbia Journal of World Business, Group and Organization Management, Human Relations Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Technology Transfer, The Leadership Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Management International Review, Sloan Management Review and the recipient of the MIT Sloan School Beckhard Award for the Best article for the year in Sloan Review.  He has conducted executive development seminars and lectured on strategy, leadership and boards of directors in China, England, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Canada and various cities throughout the United States. 

He is a Past Chair of the Strategy Process division of the Strategic Management Society. His consulting and research interests are in the areas of executive leadership, strategy implementation processes, knowledge transfer in transnational firms and the creation of value, especially in technology intensive companies.  He has worked extensively with the information technology, financial services, and telecom industries and is currently working on a book titled: Strategic Leadership for Turbulent Times.

Selected Articles

Kaipa, P. & Kriger, M.P. (2010). Empowerment, Vision and Positive Leadership: An Interview with Alan Mulally, former CEO, Boeing Commercial – Current CEO, Ford Motor Company. Journal of Management Inquiry, 19, 110-115.

Fry, L.W. & Kriger, M.P. (2009). Towards a Theory of Being-Centered Leadership:  Multiple Levels of Being as Context for Effective Leadership. Human Relations, 62 (11), 1667-1696.

Miesing, P., Kriger, M.P. & Slough, N. (2007). Towards a Model of Effective Knowledge Transfer Within Transnationals: The Case of Chinese Foreign Invested Enterprises. Journal of Technology Transfer, 32 (1), 109-122.

Kriger M.P. & Seng, Y. (2005). Leadership with Inner Meaning:  A Theory of Leadership Based on the Worldviews of Five Religions. The Leadership Quarterly, 16, 771-806.

Malan, L.-C. & Kriger, M.P. (1998). Making Sense of Managerial Wisdom. Journal of Management Inquiry, (7) 3,242-251.

Larwood, L., Falbe, C.M., Kriger, M.P. & Miesing, P. (1995). Structure and Meaning of Organizational Vision. Academy of Management Journal, 38 (3), 740-769.

Selected Book Chapters

Kriger, M.P. (2006). Ways of Questioning That Can Transform Organizations - and People. In Integrative Learning and Action: A Call to Wholeness, D. Scott et al (Eds.).  Peter Lang Publishing, 199-216.

Kriger, M.P. (2005).  What Really is Strategic Process? In Innovating Strategy Process: Genesis, Contexts and Models, S.W. Floyd, J. Roos, C.D. Jacobs, and F.W. Kellermanns (Eds.), New York: Blackwell Publishing, 165-175.

Kriger, M.P.  & Hanson, B.J. (1999). A Value-based Paradigm for Creating Truly Healthy Organizations. Journal of Organizational Change Management, (12), 4. 302-317.  Reprinted in J. Biberman and M. Whitty (Eds.), Work & Spirit: A Reader of New Spiritual Paradigms for Organizations, University of Scranton Press, 2001.