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Cross‐border Small‐scale Trading in South‐Eastern Europe: Do Embeddedness and Social Capital Explain Enough?
Author(s) -
EGBERT HENRIK
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of urban and regional research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1468-2427
pISSN - 0309-1317
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00668.x
Subject(s) - embeddedness , turkish , social capital , bulgarian , perspective (graphical) , scale (ratio) , social reproduction , economic geography , capital (architecture) , institution , economics , point (geometry) , positive economics , sociology , economic system , economy , regional science , social science , geography , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , cartography , mathematics , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science
The article analyses cross‐border small‐scale trading (CBST) from the perspective of New Institutional Economics. It offers an alternative analytical starting point to this topic, which is mainly tackled by sociologists and anthropologists. It is argued that concepts like social capital or social embeddedness can be of certain analytical use but that they hardly suffice to explain human behaviour in a detailed manner. The case of reference is the institution of bribery as it evolved in the first half of the 1990s at the Bulgarian‐Turkish border.