Further, following previous practice (Sarkar et al., 2001)
the indirect effect was calculated as a multiplication of
the statistically significant indirect effects on and from
innovativeness. The indirect effect for exploratory innovations
was derived by multiplying the significant path
coefficients, OC–INN 0.411 and INN–PERF 0.402, which
generated an indirect and total effect of 0.165. The indirect
effect for exploitative innovation could not be analyzed as
the path between MC–INN was not significant. Thus, the
results reveal that only the indirect effect of OC on project
performance through innovativeness can be analyzed in
this study.