Résumé
Business opportunities are the core of entrepreneurship research. Since the article of Shane and Venkataraman (2000) we have learned much about the process by which people identify and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities, but we still have limited understanding on how context influence their identification (Shane, 2012). [...]many researchers have focused on the factors influencing this identification. (2013) argue that entrepreneurial firms with social network ties may take advantage of local benefits in terms of local market intelligence generation and dissemination. Because effective responses to local market needs are viewed through a communal objective (Viswanathan and al. 2010).