The following organizations are actively involved with research of CBIE:

• The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University
• International Food Policy Research Institute
• International Association for the Study of the Commons
• Resilience Alliance
• CIRAD, France
• Institutions for Collective Action, the Netherlands
• Institutions for Open Societies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
• UFZ, Leipzig, Germany 
• Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
• Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics, Sweden 
• Foundation for Ecological Security, India
• Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
• Universidad de los Andes, Colombia