Lose no time! We have lost too much already: Firm adversity and CEO temporal leadership

Yingying Zhang, Haixiao Chen, Zhonghui Hu and Ho Kwong Kwan

Journal of Business Research, 2025, vol. 188, issue C

Abstract: We examined contextual predictors of chief executive officers’ (CEOs’) temporal leadership. Drawing on threat-rigidity 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.

Keywords: Temporal leadership; Firm adversity; Fear of external threats; Firm age (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296324005897
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:188:y:2025:i:c:s0148296324005897

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115085

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside

More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().