Cartel regulations chiefly guard the shared protection trademark

Evidence

As a result, there is a joint interest in its preservation. The cartel created after the Second World War and the regulations it introduced were largely devoted to that purpose: to keep the reputation good, to regulate entry, to discourage impostors who might want to make unlicensed use of the trademark. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 406

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Post-war mafia cartel regulations primarily protected brand reputation and barred impostors. (similarity 0.88)
• Mafia reputation functions as a shared trademark yielding collective benefits (similarity 0.79)
• The mafia’s shared identity is a trademark, not a central structure (similarity 0.78)