组织时间管理如何作用于企业国际化速度?

The Impact of Organizational Time Management on Enterprise Internationalization Speed

随着全球经济发展环境的动态变化,时间逐渐成为决定国际化活动实施成效和企业未来高度的关键要素,在"走出去"过程中带给企业显著的先发优势。跨国企业有必要通过构建组织时间管理框架来支持其国际化活动。本文从时间管理视角出发,探索组织内部时间管理框架的构建对企业国际化速度的作用机制。文章采用SEM与fsQCA两种方法对134家浙江企业的调查数据进行了检验。实证研究的结果发现:强烈的时间紧迫感与稳步行动两种管理者时间观念在推动企业国际化进程中起重要作用。时间观念通过构建时间管理框架,完善企业的时间资源的储备与分配机制,进而提升国际化速度。时间领导力和共享时间认知在时间观念加快企业国际化速度的过程中起中介作用。本研究将组织行为中的时间管理延伸至国际商务领域,拓展了时间观念、时间领导力和共享时间认知的实证研究进展。研究成果有助于进一步揭示时间管理对组织的影响及其作用机制,对于面临外部环境剧变的中国企业如何实现时间管理,进一步提升国际化速度提供了实践参考。

With dynamic changes of the global economic environment, time becomes a key element which determines the effectiveness of international business and the future development of enterprises. It will bring enterprises with a significant first-mover advantage in the process of “going global”. Hence, it is necessary for multinational enterprises to support their international business by constructing a framework of organizational time management.From the perspective of time management, this paper explores the impact of time management framework on internationalization speed. Specifically, time anxiety of managers and sense of control over time nodes help to build a time framework in the task process of enterprises and enhance the team’s common understanding of time, so as to enhance the internationalization speed of enterprises. The paper examines the survey data of 134 enterprises in Zhejiang Province by SEM and fsQCA. The empirical results find that a strong sense of time urgency and steady movement are the two types of temporal disposition and play an important role in international business. Temporal disposition promotes the internationalization speed of enterprises by structuring a framework of organizational time management and improving the reserve and distribution mechanism of time resources in enterprises. Temporal leadership and shared temporal cognition exist as the mediator variables of the process that temporal disposition promotes the internationalization speed of enterprises. The construction of temporal disposition enhances the internationalization speed of enterprises by promoting the formation of temporal leadership in organizations. At the same time, on the basis of grasping the time allocation of organizations, temporal disposition gradually constructs a common time cognition of team members, so as to improve the internationalization speed of enterprises.The study extends time management in organizational behavior to the field of international business, and expands the empirical research of temporal disposition, temporal leadership and shared temporal cognition. The results help to further reveal the impact of organizational time management,provide a practical reference for Chinese enterprises to implement time management and promote internationalization speed while they are faced with a drastic change in the external environment.