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Reflections on the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal

The Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal is in the first instance a case of market failure, because the harm from vehicle emissions to public health and to the environment is neither...

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Hans-Bernd Schäfer

Employee Participation in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

My forthcoming book chapter, Employee Participation in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, which I recently posted on SSRN, looks at the interaction of employee participation systems (including...

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Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal: Lessons for Corporate Governance? (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this post, I posed the question why risk-averse managers at VW might have failed to launch an internal investigation into any potential smoking guns...

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Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal: Lessons for Corporate Governance? (Part 1)

Even hardened cynics were shocked by the revelations in September that Volkswagen had programmed its diesel cars to defeat emissions tests. Whilst it was no secret that manufacturers attempted to...

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Fumigating the Criminal Bug: New Research on the Insulation of Volkswagen’s Middle Management

New headlines each day reveal wide-spread misconduct and large-scale cheating at top international companies: Volkswagen’s emissions-defeat devices installed on over eleven million cars trace back to a manager’s ...

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Josephine Sandler Nelson

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