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Utilize Time with Ease: Women Entrepreneurs’ Polychronicity and Resilience

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Zhuxin Ye
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Xiying Song *
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Jun Li
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Chenxi Qiao
DOI:10.1017/mor.2025.10088delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Women entrepreneurs face distinct gender-specific challenges; including restricted access to venture capital; work–life conflicts driven by stereotypes; and competing demands from their roles as business owners; caregivers; and community leaders. These pressures often foster polychronicity – a temporal orientation favoring simultaneous task management. Grounded in role accumulation theory; we conduct a two-stage survey of 129 Chinese women entrepreneurs to investigate the relationship between polychronicity and resilience. We further examine three moderators – frequent interruptions; entrepreneurial experience; and emotional intelligence – that amplify polychronicity’ s resilience-building effects. This study highlights the positive association between polychronicity and women entrepreneurs’ resilience; offering new insights into temporal dynamics in entrepreneurship. It also provides women entrepreneurs with practical strategies to help them navigate multiple role challenges and thrive amid adversity by leveraging their preference for multitasking.
Keywords:
emotional intelligence
entrepreneurial experience
interruption prevalence
polychronicity
role accumulation theory
resilience
women entrepreneurs
情绪智力
创业经验
中断频率
多重时间取向
韧性
角色积累理论
女性创业者

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Management and Organization Review cover
Management and Organization Review
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University of California, San Diego
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University of New Hampshire
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huazhong university of science and technology
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