Elinor Barker | Rose Elinor Dougall | Elinor Carucci | Elinor Brent-Dyer | Meredith Ostrom | John Ostrom | Elinor Glyn | Elinor Donahue | Elinor Dashwood | Elinor Tatum | Elinor Lander Horwitz | Elinor Caplan |
Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson won the 2009 Nobel prize in economic science for work in this area, where they suggested that with good community management of shared resources, as found in successful firms, the "tragedy of the commons" can be avoided.
IFRI utilizes the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, created at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues.