Once communication problems present themselves, effective information exchange can be difficult.
A trusting relationship is hampered through skepticism (Wong and Cheung 2006).
This ultimately develops an adversarial relationship among the contracting parties and affects project performance.
Such a potential relationship may be detected among trust, communication, and project performance. The purpose of this paper is to address this potential relationship.
Explicitly, building a trusting relationship among project team members is one of the key elements leading to project success. The effect of a trusting relationship on project performance may be direct and/or indirect.
Indirect effect may be mediated by another variable.
This study explores communication as one of the possible variables to better understand how project performance can be affected. The use of mediation analysis attempts to understand the indirect effect of trust and project performances via a mediator, i.e., communication. In this context,