Interrelation between Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) and Social Capital: Conceptual Framework

Abstract

All forms of capital represent assets of various kinds yielding streams of benefit." (Uphoff, 2000)"Social capital is recognized as 'glue' that holds communities together."

Cross-Border Integration, Cooperation and Governance: A Systems Approach for Evaluating “Good” Governance in Cross-Border Regions

“…In addition to these approaches, researchers have used others as an institutional dimension (Reitel 2013; Durand and Perrin 2018), a motivational dimension (Sohn 2014), an ideational dimension (Durand and Perrin 2018), etc. These perspectives implies a political and social construction, the presence of multiple identities and perceptions, the existence of actions and reactions from individuals and groups among other phenomena (Van Houtum 2000), leading to recognize a process of social capital formation across borders (Deppisch 2008;Dvalishvili 2019). With regard to this paper, CBI (Table 1) is related with the robustness of the social capital, the increase of cross-border flows and the enhancement of the convergence process.…”

“…CBC, as a long-term process, requires a certain degree of stability and reliability provided by the governance structures (Zumbusch and Scherer 2015) that depend on the nature and structure of the actors' interactions (Blatter 2004;Fricke 2015). In this way, social capital, expressed as relationships embedded in cross-border social structures, enables collective action shaping CBC opportunities and, at the same time, CBC represents a mean for generating varieties of social capital (Dvalishvili 2019). The existence of a cross-border intervention agenda, a governance model and a management framework were considered as elements for understanding CBC (Table 2).…”