The literature on NSI is a relatively new field of research with a quite impressive diffusion rate in the last 15 years. Although the concept of NSI is nowadays widely used both in academic and policy contexts, and a set of comprehensive theoretical surveys were published in the most recent...

In several agrifood sectors in Europe, firms and producers?' organizations involved in quality labelling based on official certification have been repeatedly criticized or even condemned by antitrust authorities for anti-competitive practices. This raises the question of the compatibility...