The manufacture and sale of counterfeit products is a widespread problem that affects a wide range of industries - from the pharmaceutical industry, electronics, and electrical equipment industry, clothing, footwear, to food, cosmetics, and luxury products industries. Counterfeiting and Fraud in Supply Chains explains the reasons behind the popularity of counterfeiting and fraud among both consumers and companies, a systematic and holistic overview and critical examination of the situations that have caused an increasing trend of those criminal activities.
For all businesses, counterfeiting causes serious economic and social impact and can even be dangerous, posing health, privacy, and safety risks ranging from mild to life-threatening. Covering topics from the harmful effects of counterfeiting related to the environment, trade, foreign investment, employment, innovation, and criminality, Counterfeiting and Fraud in Supply Chains documents the unregulated production and the use of dangerous machinery and materials to attain a high profit margin.
Counterfeiting and Fraud in Supply Chains boosts the existing knowledge about the profoundly multi-faceted dimension of the counterfeiting market, comprising the work of a team of theorists and practitioners who characterize a multidisciplinary approach to counterfeiting and fraud.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Investigating the Landscape of Research on Counterfeiting Products and Goods: A Systematic Literature Review Using Science Mapping; Jasna Kovačević and Almir Peštek
Chapter 2. Insights in Toxic Counterfeit Cuisine; Saskia M. van Ruth, Lintianxiang Chen, Anika Dick, and Sara W. Erasmusa
Chapter 3. Frauds in Food Supply Chains: The Case of Croatian Market; Željka Mesić and Josip Juračak
Chapter 4. Fraud Vulnerability in the Organic Food Supply Chain in Serbia: Analysis of Farmers, Packagers, Importers and Retailers; Goran Petković, Dubravka Užar, and Aleksa Dokić
Chapter 5. Industry 4.0 Technology Enablers' Guardian Role in Food Fraud Prevention; Aleksandra Nikolić, Alen Mujčinović, and Dušanka Bošković
Chapter 6. Trade in Counterfeit Products in Conditions of Crisis caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic; Sreten Ćuzović, Svetlana Sokolov Mladenović, and Đorđe Ćuzović
Chapter 7. The Importance of Intellectual Property Law in the Prevention of Selling Counterfeit Products Online; Katerina Toshevska-Trpchevska, Irena Kikerkova, Elena Makrevska Disoska, and Ljuben Kocev
Chapter 8. Tackling the Counterfeit Goods Trade in Tanzania: Reflections on the Anti-counterfeiting Criminal Law; Eugene E. Mniwasa
Chapter 9. Understanding Factors behind Consumption of Counterfeit Goods in Developing Economy; Felix Adamu Nandonde
Chapter 10. Consumer concerns on Counterfeiting in the Fashion Supply Chain: Gen Y and Z point of view; Sanda Soucie
Chapter 11. Analysis of Attitudes of Consumers in Bosnia and Herzegovina toward Counterfeit Products; Almir Peštek and Ajša Katica
About the Author :
Sanda Soucie is a Full Professor in Tenure in the Department of Trade and International Business of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Almir Peštek is a Professor at the School of Economics and Business at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and an associated professor at RISEBA University in Riga, Latvia.
