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Chargement... Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandalpar Jack Ewing
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In this still on-going tale of corporate malfeasance one keeps returning to the introverted and authoritarian corporate culture of Volkswagen, in that the ultimate issue is that warnings were already in place that the firm would be hammered if their new range of diesel-powered cars did not meet the environmental standards required but the firm still convinced itself that it could flaunt those rules in pursuit of its growth agenda. There is little reason to believe that chief executive Martin Winterkorn and, ultimately, his mentor Ferdinand Piech did not demand that Volkswagen's engineers use every means possible to advance their vision. The question is what will eventually happen to the corporate governance of Volkswagen and whether the Porsche & Piech clans will retain their current level of power; they've certainly done enough to deserve losing their control. Basically a company history framed by the emissions cheating scandal. As one of Germany’s preeminent manufacturers, Volkswagen enjoyed official support (indeed, mandatory government involvement in governance through voting power, until that was ruled to interfere with the operation of the Common Market) and didn’t have too much in the way of internal controls to stop demands for greater performance from overriding regulatory barriers. It’s a classic story: boy works at family company, boy gets in charge of family company, boy terrorizes subordinates until they decide that keeping him happy is more important than obeying the law. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"A shocking exposé of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 2017, VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming. In Faster, Higher, Farther, Jack Ewing rips the lid off the conspiracy. He describes VW's rise from 'the people's car' during the Nazi era to one of Germany's most prestigious and important global brands, touted for being 'green.' He paints vivid portraits of Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piëch and chief executive Martin Winterkorn, arguing that the corporate culture they fostered drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods. Unable to build cars that could meet emissions standards in the United States honestly, engineers were left with no choice but to cheat. Volkswagen then compounded the fraud by spending millions marketing 'clean diesel,' only to have the lie exposed by a handful of researchers on a shoestring budget, resulting in a guilty plea to criminal charges in a landmark Department of Justice case. Faster, Higher, Farther reveals how the succeed-at-all-costs mentality prevalent in modern boardrooms led to one of corporate history's farthest-reaching cases of fraud--with potentially devastating consequences."--Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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