Projects

As groups grow in size, they face new inefficiencies that affect their capacity to handle information. Groups often cope by adopting hierarchy institutions that help organize information from the top down, but individual actors may also try to correct inefficient flow of information from the bottom up.

Disclosures of corporate sustainability information are critical to effective environmental governance and regulation. However, firms face incentives misaligned between profit maximization and social responsibility, posing challenges for governments aiming to compel compliance with disclosure obligations.

Despite early emphasis on decentralized organization and individual contributions, information commons such as online encyclopedias and open-source projects increasingly rely on users working in groups to collectively generate content as a shared resource.