It’s about Time! CEOs’ Temporal Dispositions, Temporal Leadership, and，Corporate Entrepreneurship.pdfVIP

Administrative Science Quarterly 2017, Vol. 62(1)31–66 It’s about Time! The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permissions: CEOs’ Temporal / journalsPermissions.nav Dispositions, DOI: 10.1177/0001839216663504 /home/asq Temporal Leadership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship Jianhong Chen1 and Sucheta Nadkarni2 Abstract How CEOs think and feel about time may have a big influence on their firms’ strategies. We examine how two distinct CEO temporal dispositions—time urgency (the feeling of being chronically hurried) and pacing style (one’s pattern of effort over time in working toward deadlines)—each influence corporate entrepreneurship, a key strategic behavior. We propose that CEOs’ temporal leadership—how they manage the temporal aspects of top management teams’ activities—mediates the relationships between their temporal disposi- tions and corporate entrepreneurship—firms’ innovation, corporate venturing, and strategic renewal activities. Using a sample of 129 small and medium-sized Chinese firms, we find that CEOs’ time urgency is positively related to their temporal leadership, which in turn is positively related to corporate entrepre- neurship. We also examine the effects of three distinct pacing styles: early- action, meaning the CEO exerts the most effort early in the task process and relaxes as the deadline nears; steady-action, meaning the CEO spreads out effort evenly across the time allotted; and deadline-action, meaning the CEO is most active as the deadline nears. We find that t