Innovativeness (INN) was operationalized as a threeitem
variable and measured using a modification of
the job-performance instrument of Shields et al. (2000).
Respondents were provided with the following definition
of innovativeness: “Innovative accomplishments are
defined here very broadly to include any policy, structure,
method or process, product or market opportunity that
you as the manager of the project perceived to be new”,
and asked to indicate the level of the project team innovativeness
(the number of innovations) on a seven-point
Likert scale ranging from 1 indicating “extremely low” to 7
reflecting “extremely high