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.