Temporal Coordination Mechanisms and Team Resilience: An Event System Perspective on Leaders’ Pacing Styles

Modern organizations operate in dynamic environments where temporal alignment is critical for adaptive capacity and team resilience. Grounded in Event System Theory (EST) and Temporal Coordination Theory (TCT), this study examines how leaders’ pacing styles function as critical temporal regulation mechanisms that influence team resilience via shared temporal cognition. Using multisource data from 82 team leaders and 384 members in Chinese technology enterprises listed on the STAR Market, we find that steady pacing, characterized by a balanced and predictable temporal rhythm, enhances team resilience through the emergent property of shared temporal cognition. However, the positive effect of steady pacing on shared temporal cognition weakens when teams perceive high crisis event strength, suggesting that external temporal shocks critically attenuate the efficacy of routine temporal regulation. The study extends EST and TCT by revealing steady pacing as a temporal buffer strategy that fosters resilience against external shocks, and highlights the need for Temporal Calibration practices when event intensity is high. Practical implications for managing team rhythms under varying crisis intensities are discussed.