The power of global corporations facing the test of the judiciary. From the Volkswagen case to the dieselgate

La puissance des grandes entreprises mondialisées à l'épreuve du judiciaire. De l’affaire Volkswagen au dieselgate

Franck Aggeri () and Jean-Michel Saussois
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Franck Aggeri: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean-Michel Saussois: ESCP Europe - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris

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Abstract: The dieselgate is one of the most spectacular corporate scandals over the last decades, here involving the car industry, and foremost its word leader: Volkswagen. Contrary to other corporate scandals, this company was heavily sanctioned for having subverted the environmental norms on its diesel vehicles. In this paper, based on a comprehensive study of the judicial process both in Us and in Europe, we highlight the latent conflict between legal standards and managerial norms. Through the study of the game around environmental standards, we analyze the tactics used by car manufacturers to subvert these legal standards. Such a game can be assimilated to a management of illegalisms that prevails between regulators and regulatees. We stress that these deviant behaviors could be twarted because an exceptional judicial dispositif has been activated to establish, in a record time, the liability of Volkswagen. We conclude by a broader discussion about the autonomization of large corporations in modern societies and about the conditions of a performative judicial action to counterbalance their power.

Keywords: corporate scandals; illegalisms; Judicial procedures; Scandales d'entreprise; dieselgate; gestion des illégalismes; procédures judiciaires (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2017, Le management face au judiciaire, novembre-décembre (269), pp.85-102

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