Research on the enterprise's social network in information seeking for opportunity recognition

Social network, as an essential factor in searching information for market opportunities, has gained the most significant repute in research and practice. An enterprise's characteristics for searching market opportunity information (ESNSMOI) are studied and analyzed based on the theory of social network, in order to improve its ability to search market opportunities. Moreover, four types of ESNSMOI are classified and their functions and structures are discussed and compared. Finally, a case is given.