“…By effective use of knowledge management, SMEs can overcome these problems and develop sustainable businesses (Durst and Edvardsson, 2012). Activities related to knowledge management, such as knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing are difficult, time consuming and require a certain level of trust (Durst and Edvardsson, 2012;Landryov a and Irgens, 2006;Liu et al, 2014;Thakkar, Kanda, and Deshmukh 2012;Hora and Klassen, 2013;Argote, McEvily, and Reagans 2003;Letmathe, Schweitzer, and Zielinski 2012). SMEs often have limited resources in knowledge management and need confidence to adopt any initiative, which can be built up by improved approaches tested in SMEs.…”