Nardia’s research focuses on organizational responses to global sustainability issues. One stream of research focuses on the relationship between organizational identity, firm-level meanings attributed to strategic phenomena, and actions taken in response. A second area of work examines the role of the natural environment in strategy and organization theories. Nardia completed her Ph.D. in business management at the University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane, Australia (AACSB & EQUIS). Prior to this she worked as a business analyst in the IT industry; during which time she completed a Master of Technology Management and studied the affect of new information systems on organizational environmental impact.

Markus is an Applied Microeconomist specialized into information economics, contract and organization theory as well as Industrial Organization. Current Research interests include the fundamental economic mechanisms underlying Corporate Social Responsibility, the potential interaction between public policy/incentive design and strategic firm behavior in the context of (social or environmental) public goods provision as well as issues related to competition policy and market structure. After completing his undergraduate studies at the LSE and the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck, Markus earned a MA in European Economic Studies (magna cum laude) from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) and worked as a Trainee Economist in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. He completed the PhD program in Economics at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business in spring 2008.

Jay Shimshack is an assistant professor of economics at Tulane University. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2002) and a B.S. in business marketing and management from Cornell University (1995). Prior to joining Tulane, Dr. Shimshack was an assistant professor of economics at Tufts University and a visiting researcher at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB. His major fields are environmental economics, applied microeconomics, and public policy. At Tulane, he teaches environmental economics and statistics.
Dr. Shimshack's specific research interests include monitoring and enforcement, corporate environmental performance, transparency and advisories, and environmental health. He was recently named to the editorial council of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the leading environmental economics journal.

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