BES researchers are also investigating the effectiveness of current environmental measures used by financial analysts. Lastly, BES researchers are also investigating the conditions under which environmental improvement leads to financial performance. Download a paper testing the link between pollution reduction and financial performance . If properly constructed, these alternatives may allow more profitable and more effective business action. BES researchers analyze and evaluate the potential for self-interested actors to control their collective behavior.
Commons problems are pervasive.
Research to date has focused on one type of commons, common pool resources, but many emerging cases differ significantly from investigated one. In common pool resources, industry members are directly influenced by the depletion of some common resource. In many cases, however, industry members share a common reputation, and it is this reputation that they try to protect. The BES team is exploring when reputations commons are likely to occur what strategic responses firms might take. Download a conceptual paper on how companies my collectively or independently respond to cases where they share a collective reputation .