Abstract Managers often have limited available time to make high-quality strategic decisions that are both original and feasible. This joint objective is important but difficult to achieve because under time constraints, managers must combine different cognitive processes that are often influenced by emotional states. However, research investigating how time constraints and emotions interact and impact the quality of strategic decisions is scarce. Building upon the affect infusion model and information processing perspective, our experimental study involving 174 managers shows that the impact of time constraints and emotions varies across the two decision-making tasks of strategic idea generation and strategic choice. In particular, compared to the managers in a neutral emotional state under low time constraints, the happy managers under high time constraints seemed to generate fewer original and fewer feasible strategic ideas and appeared to make worse original strategic choices, while compared to the managers in a neutral emotional state under low time constraints, the sad managers under high time constraints made better original strategic choices. Our study contributes novel insight into behavioral strategy research by showing how time constraints and emotions causally and jointly influence different quality dimensions in various tasks involving strategic decision-making.

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情绪、时间和策略：时间限制下快乐和悲伤对战略决策的影响

摘要 管理者通常只有有限的可用时间来做出原创且可行的高质量战略决策。这个共同目标很重要，但很难实现，因为在时间有限的情况下，管理者必须结合经常受情绪状态影响的不同认知过程。然而，关于时间限制和情绪如何相互作用并影响战略决策质量的研究很少。基于情感注入模型和信息处理视角，我们涉及 174 名经理的实验研究表明，时间限制和情感的影响在战略构想生成和战略选择这两个决策任务中各不相同。尤其是相对于低时间约束下处于中性情绪状态的管理者而言，高时间限制下快乐的管理者似乎产生较少的原创性和可行性战略想法，并且似乎做出更糟糕的原始战略选择，而与低时间限制下处于中性情绪状态的管理者相比，高时间限制下的悲伤管理者做出更好的选择原始的战略选择。我们的研究通过展示时间限制和情绪如何因果和共同影响涉及战略决策的各种任务中的不同质量维度，为行为战略研究提供了新的见解。在时间紧迫的情况下，悲伤的管理者做出了更好的原始战略选择。我们的研究通过展示时间限制和情绪如何因果和共同影响涉及战略决策的各种任务中的不同质量维度，为行为战略研究提供了新的见解。在时间紧迫的情况下，悲伤的管理者做出了更好的原始战略选择。我们的研究通过展示时间限制和情绪如何因果和共同影响涉及战略决策的各种任务中的不同质量维度，为行为战略研究提供了新的见解。