Volkswagen Emissions Scandal: A Review of Legal, Ethical, and Environmental Consequences

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LITERATURE REVIEW
In t rod uc ti o n
One of the best manufacturing companies in the world is the Volkswagen which
is known for producing classic vehicles in the world. But due to some irregularities
of the company not complying with the regulation standards that that have been set
it is become difficult for it to operate. Due to this problems the company is making
it harder to its non-compliance to a point of deceiving t h e government off their
amounts · . Which were really overwhelming to the o r g an i z a ti on (Barrett et al . 2010
p.24). Quite a number o f questions were enquired about nature of mo r a l i ty ,
c om p l i an c e i s s u e s.. The article tends to crystallize and analyze the nature of the VW
crisis and the means of solving it and g et t i ng to the core reasons why and how it
happened (Schiermeier 2015 p . 25 ) . Due to various activities like ethical, moral,
practice of malpractices and legal practices have now become a center of focus in the
industry.
A rt i c l e S u m m ar y
A body which govern all the world class company known as EPA issued a notice
Volkswagen company around September 2015, which was to direct the company on the
importance of environmental conservation. EPA further wanted to know the reason as to why the
company was not able to prevent the release of the harmful gases to the atmosphere (Cavico and
Mujtaba 2015, p.56). The noticed was more concern on A u d i t of the Volkswagen
Company and how the company have been operating. In order have a solution
about the company problems they have been talks with other countries like USA.
Through this talk the company will be able to find a solution that will see the