TY - JOUR
T1 - Lose no time! We have lost too much already
T2 - Firm adversity and CEO temporal leadership
AU - Zhang, Yingying
AU - Chen, Haixiao
AU - Hu, Zhonghui
AU - Kwan, Ho Kwong
PY - 2025/2
Y1 - 2025/2
N2 - We examined contextual predictors of chief executive officers' (CEOs') temporal leadership. Drawing on threatrigidity theory, we explain why and how firm adversities lead to CEOs' temporal leadership. The results based on multi-wave, multi-source data from 100 firms in China showed that CEOs' fear of external threats mediated the positive relationship between firm adversities (i.e., poor firm performance and environmental dynamism) and CEOs' temporal leadership. In addition, we found that firm age strengthened the relationship between CEOs' fear of external threats and temporal leadership and the indirect relationship between firm adversity and CEOs' temporal leadership through fear of external threats. We explicate new directions for understanding how organizational and environmental factors shape CEOs' time-related rigid behavior.
AB - We examined contextual predictors of chief executive officers' (CEOs') temporal leadership. Drawing on threatrigidity theory, we explain why and how firm adversities lead to CEOs' temporal leadership. The results based on multi-wave, multi-source data from 100 firms in China showed that CEOs' fear of external threats mediated the positive relationship between firm adversities (i.e., poor firm performance and environmental dynamism) and CEOs' temporal leadership. In addition, we found that firm age strengthened the relationship between CEOs' fear of external threats and temporal leadership and the indirect relationship between firm adversity and CEOs' temporal leadership through fear of external threats. We explicate new directions for understanding how organizational and environmental factors shape CEOs' time-related rigid behavior.
KW - Fear of external threats
KW - Firm adversity
KW - Firm age
KW - Temporal leadership
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115085
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115085
M3 - Journal
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 188
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
M1 - 115085
ER -