Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】Considering the lack of empirical support for the relevant research of competitive intelligence (CI)
sharing risks, this paper tries to reveal the correlation of fairness, trust and CI sharing risks to enrich the existing CI theory and method? ology, and provides a useful reference for the CI sharing practice and further research of SMEs.【Method/process】The study obtains 230 valid samples from SMEs by creatively integrating fairness, trust, CI sharing risks (including the intelligence security risk, the rela? tionship performance risk and the financial performance risk) into a theoretical model, and uses SPSS and AMOS softwares for data analysis and model testing【. Result/conclusion】Fairness and trust can significantly reduce the intelligence security risk, the relation? ship performance risk and the financial performance risk, but the impact of fairness on trust is not significant【. Innovation/limitation】The correlation of fairness, trust and CI sharing risks of SMEs is tested, while the risks and the governance mechanism in different con? ditions still need further exploration.