ABSTRACT
Social capital in border areas needs to take into account interaction across borders. The chapter 1998 survey of 349 actual entrepreneurs in border villages, the focus was on linkages to local power centres and the existence of cross-border linkages as well as the potential for such linkages. The first component, explaining 11.89 per cent of the total variance, was linked to childcare and the number of children, the second to links between family businesses, and the third was linked negatively to age and spouse's business perhaps recognizing young unmarried entrepreneurs. Principal Components Analysis by gender revealed marked differences in the importance of social capital in explaining overall variation. The importance of foreign social capital showed up on the second and third components for women while the importance of age and children was relegated to the fourth and fifth components for men.
