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Impact of Knowledge Sharing and Innovation on Small Business Performance

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This study aims to strengthen the literature, which claims that knowledge sharing has a vital role in the performance of small businesses. This study uses data from small businesses in East Java, Indonesia, and analyzes it using path analysis. The results of this study indicate; first, knowledge sharing has a direct positive effect on performance; second, the ability of innovation proves to mediate knowledge sharing and small business performance positively.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge to the Universitas Pancasakti Tegal and Universitas Pancasila Jakarta for funding this research project. Also, we thank the Center for Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship, Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, which fully supports and coordinates this research.

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  1. Universitas Pancasakti Tegal, Kota Tegal, Indonesia

    Yuni Utami & Niken Wahyu Cahyaningtyas

  2. Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang, Malang, Indonesia

    Mochamad Rofik

  3. Universitas Pancasila Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Dwi Prastowo Darminto

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland

    Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda

  3. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

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Utami, Y., Rofik, M., Cahyaningtyas, N.W., Darminto, D.P. (2021). Impact of Knowledge Sharing and Innovation on Small Business Performance. In: Barolli, L., Poniszewska-Maranda, A., Enokido, T. (eds) Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems. CISIS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50454-0_40

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