Janotte, AlexanderAlexanderJanotte2023-04-132023-04-132023-02-20https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/107723To advance what we know about the role of subjective time in strategic management, I study the impact of top managements temporal foci from an upper echelons perspective. In this dissertation, I aim to provide novel insights regarding (a) the effects of temporal foci on organizational performance, (b) the interplay of temporal focus and objective temporality, (c) the interplay of temporal focus and affectivity and (d) the role of temporal foci during an environmental crisis. Three empirical studies are presented herein, all of which are situated in the private banking industry. Due to the fall of banking secrecy in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, the private banks under study have been confronted with a major discontinuity at the industry level. Study 1 examines the effects of top managements temporal and regulatory foci on firm survival. Adopting a dynamic perspective, I assess how these relationships evolve over time as institutional change gradually unfolds. Study 2 examines the joint effects of top managements temporal and affective foci on organizational performance. Applying the micro-level construct of temporal attitude to strategy research, I acknowledge that positive and negative affect provide important triggers for past- and future-oriented strategic action. Study 3 introduces successor CEOs temporal foci as a cognitive contingency to the succession-performance relationship. I argue that these temporal foci influence the liability of newness that is typically associated with executive succession because they either strengthen or weaken successors adaptability to their new positions as CEOs as well as their contributions to the knowledge base of top management teams (TMTs).enTemporalitätTopmanagementUnternehmenserfolgDiskontinuitätPrivate BankingEDIS-5289SwitzerlandSuccess in businessFürstentum LiechtensteinPrincipality of LiechtensteinSchweizPrivatbankensektordoctoral thesis