The Impact of Relational Risk on Knowledge Sharing of SMEs Cooperative Innovation—Moderating by Relational Benefits

Cooperative innovation as an open,collaborative and sharing innovation mode has become an important way to improve independent innovation capability of SMEs in the national innovation- driven background. Relational risk directly affects the quality and sharing level of SMEs' cooperation innovation knowledge sharing. Based on inter- organizational relationship and knowledge management theory,we investigate the interaction relationship between relational risk and knowledge,and then introduce relational benefits as moderating variables. We provide empirical evidence using SEM methods to test the model,and conclude that relational risks have significant negative influence on knowledge sharing; relational benefits have positive moderating function between their relations.