ABSTRACT
This chapter presents three dimensions of social capital (3DSC) framework for interpreting social capital measurements in terms of deviations from the ideal patterns for promoting sustainable development. Managers using this framework to guide sustainable development efforts certainly do need to pay attention to the history that produced the pattern, but the framework itself remain a useful starting point for understanding the current situation no matter how the network pattern came into existence. Emergent governance is pattern that might be a good candidate for optimally promoting sustainable development. The core–periphery concept is quite useful in studying sustainable development because it can integrate bonding, bridging, and linking types of social capital relations. I. Wallerstein attempted to describe the whole international system of economic development in core–periphery terms. The world-system theorists used the idea of a core–periphery structure to differentiate between the winners and losers in the global economic system.
