Although opportunity recognition has long been accepted as a key aspect of the entrepreneurial process, its nomological network awaits to be identified and confirmed by empirical works. Focusing on the concept of opportunity recognition, this study aims to explore the entrepreneurial activities within global outsourcing supplier firms and thus suggests a theoretical model. In this model, entrepreneurial orientation affects market and technical knowledge acquisition which in turn influences employee opportunity identification. In addition, as an important contextual variable, firm innovativeness is hypothesized to moderate the proposed relationships between market and technical knowledge acquisition and opportunity identification. Given the prominent role played by China in global outsourcing, this study plans to collect the data from the supplier firms located in mainland China
