In today’s knowledge-based economy, organizations are progressively accumulating the knowledge, which they required for innovation, from outside their boundaries. Having accepted the important role of knowledge sharing in innovation performance, it is disappointing to note that the potential harmful impacts of accidental and intentional knowledge leakage on this relationship are still neglected or undeveloped in the literature. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the impact of knowledge sharing and entrepreneurial orientation on organization’s innovation performance, considering intentional and accidental leakage of knowledge. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from 151 manufacturing SMEs operating in Malaysia, listed in Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) directory of 2017. Purposive sampling technique was used in this study and data were analyzed using partial least squares technique. The findings of this study show that there is a positive and significant relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge sharing (R² = 0.140). Moreover, knowledge sharing and entrepreneurial orientation have a positive and significant effect on innovation performance (R² = 0.500). In addition, the results show that accidental knowledge leakage negatively moderates the relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation performance. However, accidental knowledge leakage has no moderating effect in the same relationship. This research is important due to the increasing complexity and the networked nature of innovation and high risk of knowledge leakage in this environment. The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of the potentially positive and negative issues related to entrepreneurial orientation, knowledge sharing, innovation performance, and knowledge leakage, which have thus far remained empirically under-researched.

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知识泄漏，知识共享的致命弱点

在当今以知识为基础的经济中，组织正在逐渐从边界之外积累创新所需的知识。接受知识共享在创新绩效中的重要作用后，令人失望地注意到，偶然和有意的知识泄漏对该关系的潜在有害影响在文献中仍然被忽略或未开发。因此，本研究旨在研究知识共享和创业导向对组织创新绩效的影响，同时考虑有意和无意的知识泄漏。数据是使用结构化调查表收集的，该调查表来自2017年在马来西亚制造商联合会（FMM）目录中列出的151家在马来西亚运营的制造业中小型企业。本研究采用目的抽样技术，并使用偏最小二乘技术分析数据。这项研究的结果表明，创业导向与知识共享之间存在着积极而重要的关系（R ²  ＝ 0.140）。此外，知识共享和创业导向对创新绩效具有积极而显着的影响（R ² = 0.500）。此外，结果表明，偶然的知识泄漏会对知识共享和创新绩效之间的关系产生负面影响。但是，偶然的知识泄漏在相同的关系中没有调节作用。由于此环境中创新的复杂性和网络性质以及知识泄漏的高风险，这项研究非常重要。这项研究的结果有助于理解与创业导向，知识共享，创新绩效和知识流失有关的潜在的正面和负面问题，到目前为止，这些问题在经验上仍未得到充分研究。